Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Joanna Russ, The Female Man page 203

Consider:

You ought to be interested in politics.

Politics is baseball. Politics is football. Politics is X "winning" and Y "losing." Men wrangle about politics in living rooms the way Opera Fan One shouts at Opera Fan Two about Victoria de los Angeles.

No squabble between the Republican League and the Democrat League will ever change your life. Concealing your anxiety over the phone when He calls, that's your politics.

Still, you ought to be interested in politics. Why aren't you?

Because of feminine incapacity.

One can go on.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Robert Sheckley, Journey Beyond Tomorrow (in the Dimensions of Sheckley Omnibus) page 173

I had never known about this state of affairs, since news like this is generally ignored in a democracy, and is banned in a dictatorship.