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Dina Honour's avatar

Yesterday my 17 y/o came home from school and told me about a debate they'd had in his Global politics course about taxing the rich. And we talked and I passionately spoke--or as my kids say, yelled--and he did and we nodded and fist pumped, metaphorically, and I smiled to know that I'd helped to raise a fundamentally sound person. Earlier that day my older son called me--for advice!!!--and I smiled to know that I helped to raise another fundamentally sound person. That's what I sort of hang onto these days, especially on days where the crazies are crawling out from under the rocks with the speed of Clickers in The Last of Us and endangering us all.

There seem to be a lot of those days lately.

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EFS's avatar

The "Lady in the streets..." made me think of Melanie Griffith's line "I've got a mind for business and a bod for sin" from "Working Girl", a film that embodies all the worst stereotypes of women, and confirms how many men still hold on to them. That film is almost 40 years old, but those ideas are still regurgitated today. Those men want to remain faultless for all of their destructive behavior, and right now it looks like they have the upper hand. But we will come around to accountability, and sanity, I hope sooner than we think.

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