LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

According To Salon Dot Com There Are No Women Worthy

At 10:30 AM EDST today, there are only three -- 3 -- THREE females who are worthy enough to be featured on their site: one is the over-indulged, under-educated young woman who went to Italy and got herself involved in a sex murder crime; the second is the utterly irrelevant to anything for YEARS AND YEARS, the woman who can't even bother finish her term as governor of Alaska; the third, some bimbo who won't back down on inviting a (male) homophobe to speak at some dumb event.

All the rest of the many, many feature stories feature men in the photo, the caption and the body of the text.  O wait, there was another female figure, in a still from a film by George Cloony, the feature which was titled and about George Cloony, and oh yes, he was in the photo too, staring at the young blonde in the foreground.

So, in the entire world in which things are happening these are the only women who are doing anything worthy of being put on a news aggregation site?

Why are we seeing this in the USA, in the year 2013? Or -- rather, why are we not seeing women in the USA, in the year 2013?



No comments: