...and then I remembered why being a bitch does not help Laura Ingraham or Hillary Clinton do anything but survive in a brutal world.
This article http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsoul/womenintheworld/staticslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=3326194&imageindex=1says it all.
There is an intensity to women that makes them profoundly and as contradicted as men. From Becky in Shorts to my friend Margarita, there is an profound depth and genius that women have that is tempered by the cruelty they have had to live through.
I want to tell you why some women are literally heroes.
Margarita's case in point. Living in Armenia at a young age, she was abandoned by her family as Muslims attacked their village. She took her sisters and loaded bags of rice into a cart with their grandmother and moved them into the mountains. She and her sister would walk through the mine fields to get deliveries from the Red Cross. When I used to look at her, I would wonder how someone so small, with a 200 IQ, could have survived such an intensely cruel environment. Bombs shaking the houses, windows blown out. People eating from the garbage and starving. She is now the single most successful young doctor in Colorado and is dating and part of an active social scene but spends her weekends in research to try to find ways to rebuild the genetic structure of people's teeth and end oral cancer. She is just getting started, give her time.
Tenzin Llhamo's case in point. Tenzin was working as a beer seller in the outer Himalaya. She would cross an area mined by the Pakistani forces to wash clothes and buy barley to make chaang beer. She was headed to college and had left the village, moved to New Delhi and was working hard selling beer by paying off crooked cops to keep the business open. Tenzin earned enough to start college. She was working in college in 2005 and visiting family and friends when suddenly and without any warning a bomb ripped through the bus station she was standing in and killed her. Similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29_October_2005_Delhi_bombings
She will never get started and I loved her.
Ratree's case in point. Ratree was 8 when her family sent her to Bangkok. She worked and lived on the streets. She lived with an older man who was kind enough to let her stay with his family. The rest of the time she slept on the street. She worked for 16 years as a child worker at Adidas. In 2003 she was living an intense life working two jobs one at a bar with hookers she hated, and one at factory. In 2005 she met and married Henry an exporter from Holland and now has a daughter Arisara and helps Henry manage his business part of the year and own Y2J tattoo studio in Bangkok the rest of the year.
http://y2j-tattoo.com/index.html
Ang's case in point. Ang was working in China. She had never known her family. She was treated very unkindly while running her little noodle stand. Her family never thought that she would amount to anything and her mother would beat her until she ran away from home. She lived through the Cultural Revolution where she helped one of her class mates load a small bomb into a teacher's chair killing him instantly until, pencils, pens, hands, and toes were in her words, spread like cooked pork. She escaped to Hong Kong, she fucked 23 border guards to get a pass out of the country. In Hong Kong she started a small Jewelry shop and she lives there now with her husband and her son.
If we do not make part of the world better for women who live through and are capable of extraordinary things, why should we want to make a world for anyone at all. I have come to the conclusion that if some women begin to act more mature, less contradicted, less narcissistic and totally involved in themselves and their pleasure, they will save the world. But if they did, would it be so much fun to be around them? Either way, women will continue to release their potential in extraordinary idiosyncratic ways.
This difficult position is matched with an equally offesnive one, if men were not led around by the penis the world would be a better place too, ask Ellliot Spitzer: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11spitzer.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
There is a huge difference between the inner strength these women had and the outer strength we worship as a society. If you want to be good you will never be perfect. If you want to be perfect you will never even try to be good. Intensity is important, but tenderness is equally so. Real talent, real compassion, real goodness are not made in school, they are born.
This article http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsoul/womenintheworld/staticslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=3326194&imageindex=1says it all.
There is an intensity to women that makes them profoundly and as contradicted as men. From Becky in Shorts to my friend Margarita, there is an profound depth and genius that women have that is tempered by the cruelty they have had to live through.
I want to tell you why some women are literally heroes.
Margarita's case in point. Living in Armenia at a young age, she was abandoned by her family as Muslims attacked their village. She took her sisters and loaded bags of rice into a cart with their grandmother and moved them into the mountains. She and her sister would walk through the mine fields to get deliveries from the Red Cross. When I used to look at her, I would wonder how someone so small, with a 200 IQ, could have survived such an intensely cruel environment. Bombs shaking the houses, windows blown out. People eating from the garbage and starving. She is now the single most successful young doctor in Colorado and is dating and part of an active social scene but spends her weekends in research to try to find ways to rebuild the genetic structure of people's teeth and end oral cancer. She is just getting started, give her time.
Tenzin Llhamo's case in point. Tenzin was working as a beer seller in the outer Himalaya. She would cross an area mined by the Pakistani forces to wash clothes and buy barley to make chaang beer. She was headed to college and had left the village, moved to New Delhi and was working hard selling beer by paying off crooked cops to keep the business open. Tenzin earned enough to start college. She was working in college in 2005 and visiting family and friends when suddenly and without any warning a bomb ripped through the bus station she was standing in and killed her. Similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29_October_2005_Delhi_bombings
She will never get started and I loved her.
Ratree's case in point. Ratree was 8 when her family sent her to Bangkok. She worked and lived on the streets. She lived with an older man who was kind enough to let her stay with his family. The rest of the time she slept on the street. She worked for 16 years as a child worker at Adidas. In 2003 she was living an intense life working two jobs one at a bar with hookers she hated, and one at factory. In 2005 she met and married Henry an exporter from Holland and now has a daughter Arisara and helps Henry manage his business part of the year and own Y2J tattoo studio in Bangkok the rest of the year.
http://y2j-tattoo.com/index.html
Ang's case in point. Ang was working in China. She had never known her family. She was treated very unkindly while running her little noodle stand. Her family never thought that she would amount to anything and her mother would beat her until she ran away from home. She lived through the Cultural Revolution where she helped one of her class mates load a small bomb into a teacher's chair killing him instantly until, pencils, pens, hands, and toes were in her words, spread like cooked pork. She escaped to Hong Kong, she fucked 23 border guards to get a pass out of the country. In Hong Kong she started a small Jewelry shop and she lives there now with her husband and her son.
If we do not make part of the world better for women who live through and are capable of extraordinary things, why should we want to make a world for anyone at all. I have come to the conclusion that if some women begin to act more mature, less contradicted, less narcissistic and totally involved in themselves and their pleasure, they will save the world. But if they did, would it be so much fun to be around them? Either way, women will continue to release their potential in extraordinary idiosyncratic ways.
This difficult position is matched with an equally offesnive one, if men were not led around by the penis the world would be a better place too, ask Ellliot Spitzer: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11spitzer.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
There is a huge difference between the inner strength these women had and the outer strength we worship as a society. If you want to be good you will never be perfect. If you want to be perfect you will never even try to be good. Intensity is important, but tenderness is equally so. Real talent, real compassion, real goodness are not made in school, they are born.
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