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Saturday, April 13, 2013

041313 (Sa) Neither Fair, Nor Unfair...

A short reflection on the most recent article of Dr. Michael Parenti - "Requiem for a Dominatrix" relating to class/gender and associating with politics/entertainments:



"Blurry", isn't it (the above poster)?  Here is my original draft:

Neither Fair, Nor Unfair...

Hollywood, London, Washington D.C.,
beauty, talent, and smartie, 
don’t  blame  for god’s random gifts in biology!
Fair skin, o.k. and/or  fine classes, 

save one 20 years’ struggling in dreary.
Though, 2 determinants of life chances working out the intersectionality,
with good endeavors,
be what you "wannabe"!

Is it hard to see ?
When –where- how to be born  into the race, class, gender, nationality,
localities, timings, as well as physicality,
for better or worse, 

are not your choices?!
Fortunately,
there are achieved statuses in a much open society,
waiting for you to construct your social mobility.

How achieved!- the glamour and the glory,
tell us what the “Meritocracy” is,
for s/he is on his/her own feet, the self-made kings and queens
occupying on the top of the Pyramid that no one else built it?


Where is the naughty mechanism
- the so called unearned and invisible Privileges ?
Not to mention some gentlemen,
how about  Ladies Bhutto, Gandhi, Myers, Aung San Su Ki, Evita Peron, Clinton, and the rest
with tremendous courage and opportunities,
serving as role modeling,

while, if, reincarnated into Uganda, Rwanda,  Bangladesh, or Burundi,
stripping off the advantages from daddies/mommies, husbands, classes, and appearances,
as well as the strong masculine arms and fists behind the screen!

Yes, necessary conditions need to meet the sufficient,
as chances embrace choices,

because all life opportunities are created, given, and obtained “equally”,
and the playing field is leveled, 

isn't it, kaleidoscopic?

Not just boys, men, and the genteel,
girls, women, and ladies,
and all classes, races, ethnicity, and the rest of diversity,
work hard, harder, and hardest, 
and don’t ever look back on the dragging-down social forces which are "designed" to challenge thee.

End post -  "But Justice and Injustice – on the April 8, thinking of Annette Funicello and Margaret Thatcher"