Göttin der Dummheit: Two Women
I am a woman.
I am a woman.I am a woman born of a woman whose man owned a factory.
I am a woman born of a woman whose man labored in a factory.I am a woman whose man wore silk suits, who constantly watched his weight.
I am a woman whose man wore tattered clothing, whose heart was constantly strangled by hunger.I am a woman who watched two babies grow into beautiful children.
I am a woman who watched two babies die because there was no milk.I am a woman who watched twins grow into popular college students with summers abroad.
I am a woman who watched three children grow, but with bellies stretched from no food.But then there was a man;
But then there was a man;And he talked about the peasants getting richer by my family getting poorer.
And he told me of days that would be better and he made the days better.We had to eat rice.
We had rice.We had to eat beans!
We had beans.My children were no longer given summer visas to Europe.
My children no longer cried themselves to sleep.And I felt like a peasant.
And I felt like a woman.A peasant with a dull, hard, unexciting life.
Like a woman with a life that sometimes allowed a song.And I saw a man.
And I saw a man.And together we began to plot with the hope of the return to freedom.
I saw his heart begin to beat with hope of freedom, at last.Someday, the return to freedom.
Someday freedom.And then,
But then,One day,
One day,There were plans overhead and guns firing close by.
There were planes overhead and guns firing in the distance.I gathered my children and went home.
I gathered my children and ran.And the guns moved farther and farther away.
But the guns moved closer and closer.And then, they announced that freedom had been restored!
And then they came, young boys really.They came into my home along with my man.
They came and found my man.Those men whose money was almost gone.
They found all of the men whose lives were almost their own.And we all had drinks to celebrate.
And they shot them all.The most wonderful martinis.
They shot my man.And then they asked us to dance.
And they came for me.Me.
For me, the woman.And my sisters.
For my sisters.And then they took us.
Then they took us.They took us to dinner at a small private club.
They stripped from us the dignity we had gained.And they treated us to beef.
And then they raped us.It was one course after another.
One after another they came after us.We nearly burst we were so full.
Lunging, plunging—sisters bleeding, sisters dying.It was magnificent to be free again!
It was hardly a relief to have survived.The beans have almost disappeared now.
The beans have disappeared.The rice—I’ve replaced it with chicken or steak.
The rice, I cannot find it.And the parties continue night after night to make up for all the time wasted.
And my silent tears are joined once more by the midnight cries of my children.This poem was written by a working class Chilean woman in 1973, shortly after Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown. A U.S. missionary translated the work and brought it with her when she was forced to leave Chile. This is to be read by two people, one reading the bold-faced type and one reading the regular type.
The period of rice and beans for the poor woman in the poem occurs after the election of the socialist, Salvador Allende, as president of Chile. Allende was elected in 1970. He was overthrown in a military coup in September 1973 after a long period of destabilization launched by the wealthy classes and supported by the US government and US corporations such as International Telephone and Telegraph. Along with thousands of others, Allende was killed by the military. The coup, under the leadership of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, launched a period of severe hardship for the working and peasant classes. Although Chile currently has a civilian government, the military is still the country’s most powerful institution.
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I like how the chick is all “YOU TALKIN’ SHIT ‘BOUT MY STAY-AT-HOME DAD?! HOW FUCKIN’ DARE YOU JUDGE HIM! DO YOU EVEN FUCKIN’ UNDERSTAND THE SACRIFICES HE GOES THROUGH TO RAISE ME, AND YOU STILL GOT THE CLOACA TO ASSUME SHIT ‘BOUT HIS MASCULINITY, MUCH LESS HIS IDENTITY? GROW A PAIR, YA FUCKS. LET’S GO, DAD, I DON’T NEED THESE MOOKS AS PLAYDATE BUDDIES.”
Eeyup. That just happened.
…I think I’m going to replace “you’ve got the balls” with “you’ve got the cloaca” in my day-to-day speech.
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So much room for activities!
activities.
“activities”
SEX
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some shit is about to go down
next thing you know
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I just g’fawwed when I read this!
THIS. MADE. MY. DAY.
FUCK YES.
YES.
This is the best thing ever
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The time he was found worthy
It did not matter. Loki hauls his unconscious brother onto his back and to safety. Picking up The Hammer was an afterthought.I’ve been staring at this all morning, and I just have to express how in love with it I am. Beautiful execution. <3
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HOLY SHIT WTF DID THIS BITCH DOOOO!?!
Is this what happens when they rub the velvet off their horns?
It’s the velvet, my friends, the velvet!
I WIN I WIN!
Despite knowing this is velvet rubbing, I still want to make a ‘you’re next’ macro from this pic.
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Not sure why it took me so long to remember (arguably) the most famous female superhero. (Also, it’s about time I got to someone with curlier hair!)
POC Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman actually have a twin sister named Nubia who was stolen by Aries. They’re totally equal in power too.
Le gasp! Wonder Woman had a twin named Nubia?!!!? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!!
I don’t care what anyone says. this is the real fucking wonderwoman
really? a twin? i never knew that
Hippolyta made Nubia and Wondy at the same time in the original backstory (she made them both from clay and they were given life by the gods).
Nubia has also been Wonder Woman in different continuities. During Final Crisis she’s WW of her version of Earth (Superman is also black in that one).
