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neadodsYeah, another pointless update. They're going to be happening with great regularity over the next couple of days.
Anyway, there have been a few times in my life when I feel like there's a glass wall between me and the rest of reality. That's happening really strongly right now, as a couple of my co-workers all but roll on the floor over an email they've got, while I'm staring at the Johns Hopkins visitor guide. I suddenly realized that a part of me doesn't want to run a map on how to get there 'cause then it would be real. As if, as long as I *don't*, it isn't. If that makes any sense at all.
In nicer news, so I'm not soaking up electrons with just my collywobbles, a great article from the hometown fishwrap:
She's poor.
She's illiterate.
She's 50.
She's an untouchable.
And now that they taught her and other women like her how to fix the water pumps in rural India, they've become important and respected members of the community. Link will probably only be active for about a week, you might have to do a free registry. It's worth it.
Here is feminism at its best. Want women to be taken seriously? Don't write books, don't lecture, don't march. Go somewhere dirt poor and give the women the tools - literally - to keep things running. India may have had a caste structure for centuries, but when given the choice of living without the social system or living without running water, people's pragmatism wins out over culture every time.
Anyway, there have been a few times in my life when I feel like there's a glass wall between me and the rest of reality. That's happening really strongly right now, as a couple of my co-workers all but roll on the floor over an email they've got, while I'm staring at the Johns Hopkins visitor guide. I suddenly realized that a part of me doesn't want to run a map on how to get there 'cause then it would be real. As if, as long as I *don't*, it isn't. If that makes any sense at all.
In nicer news, so I'm not soaking up electrons with just my collywobbles, a great article from the hometown fishwrap:
She's poor.
She's illiterate.
She's 50.
She's an untouchable.
And now that they taught her and other women like her how to fix the water pumps in rural India, they've become important and respected members of the community. Link will probably only be active for about a week, you might have to do a free registry. It's worth it.
Here is feminism at its best. Want women to be taken seriously? Don't write books, don't lecture, don't march. Go somewhere dirt poor and give the women the tools - literally - to keep things running. India may have had a caste structure for centuries, but when given the choice of living without the social system or living without running water, people's pragmatism wins out over culture every time.
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Date: 2004-12-06 07:49 am (UTC)And I'm sorry about the Johns Hopkins thing. It's hell when your dad's sick. *hugs*
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Date: 2004-12-06 08:03 am (UTC)Stick around - have found a fascinating series of LJ essays that will be the next link when I start babbling.
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Date: 2004-12-06 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-06 06:01 pm (UTC)The glass wall is a common feeling. Luckily we can't stop time -- it goes on, and even horrible events pass on.
Unfortunately -- so do the good ones of which you will have many more.
We all just gotta survive this week....
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:13 am (UTC)