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“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”*

I read several days ago about the murder of Du’a Khalil Aswad and the video that a man had taken of the event but I couldn’t bring myself to watch it. However, the mistake I then made was to push the matter away and do nothing. It took a post from Joss Whedon on Whedonesque to remind myself of it and do a small something about a world in which some men hate some women because they are women.

*Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch in the chapter Loathing and Disgust (I suspect Du’a knew in the last hideous thirty minutes of her life).

ETA: this is great because it’s true. You could play feminist bingo with this.

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Gamut

That’s a good word.

I came across a Dorothy Parker quote I hadn’t seen before – “This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.” (does it date it if raisins are considered “fancy”?) – and I was reminded of a couple of my favourites:

Katharine Hepburn “ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”

News Item:
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses

This is a great quote wrongly attributed to DP:

“If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.” – it was Maurice Baring (though it should be noted that even after consulting tried and trusted sources, it is difficult to locate original sources of quotes).

My favourite poem when I was young and miserable was Résumé:

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live.

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