The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
One thing that’s vitally important to remember is that feeling “weirded out” is not a form of harm. It is a completely normal part of socializing. It is the feeling of encountering something unfamiliar. In order to be a kind person, you must learn to how to distinguish between “harmful” and “weird.” And then you must accept the weird.
It takes two to make a baby, yet mothers shoulder all the risks and responsibilities. Men have minimal to non-existent burdens.
It’s all about control. Patriarchy never got abolished - we only live in a slightly reformed version of it. These men see us as a mere resource. The more we shake their oppression and exploitation off (or even just “dare” to try), the more severe backlash we face. Every single time. Women were the first and are the last colony. Male sexual colonialism. That’s what this is.
Never forget that - depending on where you live - we’re only in around the second generation of women who were born into a state of full personhood before the law. Many of us were still born into the state of a second class citizen. What happens there in the US - and worldwide - is a direct war on women. They’re bringing androcratic religious doctrine into secular legislation and jurisdiction.
It’s also notable that women who still have - or even just are getting accused of - an abortion (or even just the attempt) are getting persecuted and end as registered felons for that. Even women having miscarriages are getting denunciated as them having “illegal abortions”; police registers and surveils pregnant women and uses digital data - warrantless(!) - to control and persecute them.
Being a registered felon can and will strip them of many rights. One of which is the ability to vote and therefore to participate in the system that governs and controls their very lives. So easy to just simply accuse women and to then cut them off of even that little slice of power they had. There exist even full-on denunciation-hotlines where “people” can rat on women whom they are suspicious of being possibly pregnant….
Below you can find an article how women got denunciated and persecuted that weren’t even pregnant!
This has system.
Just like mentioned in the OOP - the unborn are not the real concern of these people. That’s just a pawn. It’s all about to find ways to silence and control, to posess, to use.
And it will not be the end. Their system is extremely fragile and shaky by now, so they will go to extreme lenghts to be able to further uphold it. Like they always did.
Many remains of the ancient city, mostly of the Roman period, still exist and numerous antiquities, including some fine Hellenisticterra-cottas, were discovered in casual excavations.
Other sights include the Chiesa Madre (17th century) and the ruins of the so-called Castle of Conradin, in fact a Roman mausoleum of the Imperial age.
I can personally recommend going on Google Street View and zooming around Centuripe! The views are amazing!
