I started following a blog in which a young lady posts absurd messages she gets from horrible men in her online dating app. Trying to explain herself to a very angry follower she said something that made me want to jot down some words. She said that she censures nice, honest, interesting messages and exposes the vulgar ones. Censorship, in my mind, has always been linked to preventing specific political views or vulgar attitudes from bleeding out. Suddenly I saw the tool being used as protection toward those men that treated her with respect. It also made me remember how helpless women are in a paradigm in which men and women are in such different vantages. I am not a men hater, not at all. But it always strikes me that the weapons men and women can count on to plough through life are somewhat dissonant. Women’s weapons are hard to acquire because they depend on wit and high self esteem and a woman has no other choice for fighting except courage. This is not necessarily true for a man: a man can fight with more dimwitted resources, which rely more on weakness of spirit than courage. The very few examples of men that do not dwell under this premise are a true pleasure to be around, as are the very few examples of women that have the wit and courage to stand their ground. The young lady from the blog fights against total and absolute disrespect with an interesting weapon: exposure of vulgarity. I think I like her.
May8
I understand that @metal-eye loves her Baby Bowie, but we have to recognize that the man himself left not only a fantastic album in Black Star but also this tasty little treat from the same sessions.
