May 21, 2012

The “slut walk” goes global…huh?

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I had not intended to voice my thoughts on this one…but this morning as I read the article in SMH on line, I could contain myself no longer – I decided to self-express on what might turn out to be a ”touchy” issue for some. I just don’t get how ‘owning’ the word ‘slut’ frees you from it. Does [...]

When a number is more than just a number

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Human life is begun and ended in numbers. When we are born our date of birth is recorded in numbers. Our names also have a numeric value, each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a number. And so these numbers become our calling card, our form of personal and legal identity. When we look around [...]

What can we say about Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Was Freud right after all – is man driven by sex and aggression?

What can we say about Dominique Strauss-Kahn? Was Freud right after all – is man driven by sex and aggression?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was at the top of a vast and luxuriously rich material life – afforded all the worldly privileges of wealth, power, authority, recognition –a man who could buy anything he wanted – but a man for whom all this was not enough. His guilt or innocence is still to be determined in a [...]