Bring on the Trumpets!
Have you ever tried to talk to someone who refuses to listen or engage? Someone who latches on to a single argument and refuses to discuss in a productive way - even if you don’t agree, a good discussion can often be had.
Have a watch, it’s only 30 seconds long.
So, as a semi regularly blogging, kinda leaning towards the radical, feminist I find myself, on frequent occasions, having discussions with people about my politics……
I’m a fairly open person and like to chat and explore, usually over a large mug of tea and in a reasonably amicable way. I don’t want to argue or be beaten about the head with a poorly presented repetition of the same old stuff just said over and over and louder and louder as if that makes it more true. I’d get more sense talking to my kitchen sink, or a jelly teddy bear …. Well, at least I can eat him if the trumpets thing gets too much.
But what about a march for men who are victims of domestic violence?
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But what about the sex workers who enjoy what they do?
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But what about the nice porn, it’s not all nasty….
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But porn use/paying for sex/abuse of a women is my choice, you can’t infringe my human rights…..
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
What I do in my own home is my business….
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But don’t you see that….. (insert spurious argument intended to divert attention from that actual point) …..
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
Patriarchy? What patriarchy? I see no patriarchy, said the woman with the blindfold on and her hands cuffed above her head so she doesn’t even have the power to remove the blindfold and truly see that the trumpets are only there to hide the sound of women being abused, raped and murdered every day, to hide the sound of control and of domination and of repression.
Quit with your bloody trumpets and quit trying to excuse what is happening, quit trying to make it look like you choose to be squashed and diminished. Just quit, just take off the blindfold, hear beyond the trumpets and really see what is being done to you and to women all over the world.
