In some part, I find myself shocked. Another part counsels calm. Since the Sixties, large parts of society gave themselves over to the notion that if we ounly shouted loud enough and proved sincere enough the edifice of privileged of and the rest of those endless list of evils would crumble as Marx, Leniin, and Mao promised.
Alas dear friends none of those guys knew shit. Their main suppositiions have proven wrong. Society does not function like a mon olith. It only appears to.
So, in the realm of Feminist theory and practice and Male sexist backlash we struggle to find authenticity. We search for a teory and practice that will work.
We ain't there yet boobie. And, no matter how hard you huff and puff and try to make yourself believe we are! No. We ain't.
We have a few tools from ages past: Ten of them in one set or Tweleve of them in another, if you like. Takes lots of individual work.
Keep on trucking.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Monday, September 4, 2017
Again and again ...
The employeer goes into the market place and offers employmebnt. The employee can take it or leave it. Forget negotiation.
Employers negotiate all other expenses such as but not limited to raw materials, the cost of prostitutes, and the amount of bribes. But, for some reason in the schizophrenia of the owners and management, employees don't count. Unlike Princess Camilla and horses, they can't paw the ground with their front feet to count.
But, O M G when employees organize to negotiate for wages and benefits the stuff has hit the fan. The unions are foreign, subversive, and unhholy. Like the song says
"... I've been slandered. I've been libeled. I've heard words I've never heard in the bible..."
So when I suggest that labor unions represent a stratagy by which people gain power in the market place, senile old men grab their golf clubs and come a hobbling dragging their care givers -- usually underpaid and black -- with them.
Surthermore, when I suggest that failure to pay a fair wage and continue to tolerate slum landlords amounts to wealth transfer from the lowest segment of society to the wealthiest, the same group of the senile try and shout through their asthema, emphasis, and COPD. They lack the strength to pick up their portable oxygen tanks and throw them at me.
Employers negotiate all other expenses such as but not limited to raw materials, the cost of prostitutes, and the amount of bribes. But, for some reason in the schizophrenia of the owners and management, employees don't count. Unlike Princess Camilla and horses, they can't paw the ground with their front feet to count.
But, O M G when employees organize to negotiate for wages and benefits the stuff has hit the fan. The unions are foreign, subversive, and unhholy. Like the song says
"... I've been slandered. I've been libeled. I've heard words I've never heard in the bible..."
So when I suggest that labor unions represent a stratagy by which people gain power in the market place, senile old men grab their golf clubs and come a hobbling dragging their care givers -- usually underpaid and black -- with them.
Surthermore, when I suggest that failure to pay a fair wage and continue to tolerate slum landlords amounts to wealth transfer from the lowest segment of society to the wealthiest, the same group of the senile try and shout through their asthema, emphasis, and COPD. They lack the strength to pick up their portable oxygen tanks and throw them at me.
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