In the history of time in the ancient Greece there is a story about how women stopped a war going on. The drama/comedy was written by Aristofanes 411 B.C. It's called Lysistrate. The wifes had a sexstrejk(meaning the women stopped pleasuring their husbands). And in frustration the war-headed men stopped the war.
Now I'm not sure what the joke was.
I am looking at notes from yesteryear and as I am looking for something to do, like a buisness to make a living of I like the thought of a Big Sister program. It will be about sisterhood then. Because women can do better than be stay at home wifes. We are teachers, personal assitent, secretaries, cleaning ladies, Yoga, impretator, hair dressers. Women are mothers, sisters, daughters, diplomats, peace ambassadeurs, Composers, Journalists, Reporters, gardeners, artists, filmmakers, bakers, chefs, nurses, daycare, police, firefighters, doctors.
I mention all of these professions like each woman has to know how to do all these things to take care of her family, after her fulltime work she comes home and do the cooking and laundry, cleaning if she is this middle class woman living in Sweden. Doubletime, she´s working at home too unpaid business just to get the family happy. Is she happy with that? Do we not need to be good helping sisters in this large village or community on this Earth. Woman/Man and all in between. Were we not all once children?
The Mothers of Ukraine sons went out on the streets to stop the fighting yesterday. The president of their country is on a sick leave now.
We women take care of you men. Be nice to us. Honour your ladies.
Take care of eachother women. Be good sisters to one another.
Ten years ago (September 10. 2003)
I was this day on a square in Stockholm called Medborgarplatsen. The politicians Socialdemokraterna had the spotlight, took the stage did a woman called Anna Lindh, she talked for a while to introduce the now former statsminister Göran Persson. They talked about voting Yes for the Euro (money).
I don't remember much of what was said. I only went there because my boyfriend wanted to see and he is totally Yes Euro. "Solidaritet" is often mentioned by that party Socialdemokraterna, I think it means You have to be a good neighbour; stand by someone in hard times; show love to the poor(not quite, to anybody?). Let's say I didn't understand much of what was said, although I was impressed by Anna Lindh, that a woman (with glasses like me) could be talking important matters next to the primeminister of Sweden Göran Persson(whom my father was a great fan of). I remember Anna Lindh, her smile and handshake.
The next day on the train on my way to school, I got a sms saying the news that Anna Lindh is dead. I was stunned, in chock that day. When I got to class we got the message that class would not be cancelled but at 12 o'clock we could go to the aula to watch the primeminister speech on TV. Teareyed Göran Persson.
Today
The news have shown remembering programs all weekend of Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death September 11, 2003. She has done alot of good for women in the land that doesn´t exist(Kurdistan, somewhere within the drawn lines of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria). She could have done alot of more if she had lived on, but now she only lives on in the memories we keep.
(Sweden voted No to Euro(money). Swedish krona seem to be doing alright today. Ten years later and no female Primeminister of Sweden yet).
DT - One thing Keep remembering. Evil is an abbrevation. You get upset when a woman get abused
CF - Yes, you look at me as if I dont?
DT - At Darfur its one of the most awful places worst place, met with refugees, talked with them, they could laugh. the men who Nurse white robes, clean, spotless.
CF - Where do they get the water?
DT - Part of it there are trucks. If the women go out of the camp the women get raped.
CF - What?
DT - Human beings are incredible. I mean you are incredible
CF - The thing I was gonna uh
DT - The second thing.. shh
CF - Oh yeye no you're right, you're good
DT - ..incredible thing, The humanitarian workers. Have we hear enough craze of fantastic people, many of them go their second, third mission. What make them go there? They get no kudos. They can't live normal life if they don't go
CF - Is that why you hang on to the faith? When you see such evil, is it a test of your faith?
DT - It is that Evil is evil. You can't seek to the ghastliness when people put others into gaschambers.
CF - ye..
DT - I mean that is awful there is no word had good enough to describe the level of Evil, I mean in the Truth and Reconcilation commission we had some gruesome accounts. Somebody said we gave him drug coffe, we shot him in the head, and then we burned his body, it takes 7-8hour for a human body to burn completely. And so whilst the body is burning here we're having a barbeque here drinking beer and laughing and there the human body burnin and here cowflesh burnin and you say what could have happened o the humanity of anyone that they could sink so low Had a barbeque next to that.
CF - What could have happened and How do you find reconciliation, how do you find forgiveness in that? It must be its a gigantic tragedy.
DT - It is and yet have met Not just black people, white people too, who had this incredible, One woman was with friends at a X-mas party at a golfclub, and one of the liberation movements threw handgrenades into the party and Several people were killed, she wasnt killed but she was so badly wounded she was in ICU for several months now She is talkin she says she couldn't when she came out, she couldn't wash herself, she couldnt cloth herself, she couldn't feed herself, it was done for her by her children and then she says. I mean a condition that leaves her
Totally hopeless. She said It has Enriched my life. I mean, enriched my life, This woman crazy
CF - It's very advanced for me, I dont get it
DT - And Then she says I'd like to meet the perpertrator. I'd like to meet him in the spirit of forgiveness. I'd like to forgive him and I hope he forgives me.
CF - Is that the only way to freedom? I remember something about Hearing the Dalai Lama talking about he Felt he was in danger with the chinese because he felt himself loosing compassion for them, which I really didn't understand at the time, but it sounds a little bit like your saying. .
DT - The thing is that you and I, and all of us. Even when we don't accept it I mean or understand. It is that God created us in such a way that I can't be human on my own. I wouldn't know how to walk as a human being, I wouldn't know how to think, I wouldn't know how to speak, I wouldn't know how to be a human being Except through learning from other human being. and so our humanity is bound with one another. And you see If you carry out a policy that dehumanizes others in the process you are dehumanized, you know and so you understand now, you understand how others can say in order for me to be me, I want to forgive you. Because, have you discovered? When you don't forgive frequently, you feel it in you tumtum
CF - Ye I always was told that resentment was like drinking poison and then excepting someone else to die, you know that has...
DT - That was beautiful
CF - Thank you very much its not mine. Father Tutu, we must take a break.
((It was a Quote from Nelson Mandela))
Transcripted from an Episode of Craig Ferguson Late Show with guest Desmond Tutu. Check it out on youtube if you wish. I own nothing.
Today in the News. Femen got caught by the Police for showing their naked breasts in a Mosque in Stockholm.
Is it good shouting "Stop Sharia" and "Free the women" in that manner?
Heute Nachrichten. Femen wurden (was sagst man jetzt?) bei der Polizei in Stockholm gefangennehmen, für Topless in Mosque waren.
Wird es gut gerufen "Stop Sharia" und "Free the women" in dieses Manieren?
I don't know/ Ich weiss nicht
Do you know?/ Weisst du?
Hey another year has started and I have a job to go to. Single, soon to be getting to that age that in my dreamworld planning I had gotten married before this birthday coming up in may.
8 Januar David Bowie relases new song. I listen to the song and wonder where his t-shirt with the text m/s Norway comes from. Tony Oursler is the director of the video to David Bowies new single Where are we now. I like the ending of the song, the last rows goes - As long as theres sun, rain, fire, me and you.
(Pure and simple. Beautiful lyrics. In my own opinion)
I saw Tony Oursler exhibition when he was in Magasin 3 in Stockholm, must've been ten years ago.
Wonder how Oursler pronounce his last name?
Fonem in swedish. Ö is like in thirst (oe -ö). Ä is like in care (ae -ä). Å is like in holly (au -å)
Cheers
Takarazuka musikal (This is the japanese version of The Scarlet Pimpernel(Hoshigumi) played by famous all woman company Takarazuka)
