Undermining the Patriarchy Every Chance I Get -- And I Get a Lot of Chances
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Bangs Head On Desk
Go read this story and check out the picture used to illustrate it. I can't think of another disfavored group that would have a story about one of its possible members illustrated with such a biased picture.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
2 comments:
Couldn´t agree with you more - infuriating!
The story itself is so terrifying -- a group of women burning down the house of another woman! And THEN the photo just adds insult to injury.
Jan at Rosemary Cottage
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