Yoshida Kenkō Quotes
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“A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.”
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“Man as 'N*gger'? In the early years of the women’s movement, an article in Psychology Today called 'Women as N*gger' quickly led to feminist activists (myself included) making parallels between the oppression of women and blacks.
Men were characterized as the oppressors, the 'master', the 'slaveholders'. Black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s statement that she faced far more discrimination as a woman than as a black was widely quoted.
The parallel allowed the hard-earned rights of the civil rights movement to be applied to women. The parallels themselves had more than a germ of truth. But what none of us realized was how each sex was the other’s slave in different ways and therefore neither sex was the other’s 'n*gger' ('n*gger' implies a one-sided oppressiveness).
If 'masculists' had made such a comparison, they would have had every bit as strong a case as feminists. The comparison is useful because it is not until we understand how men were also women’s servants that we get a clear picture of the sexual division of labor and therefore the fallacy of comparing either sex to 'n*gger'.
For starters, blacks were forced, via slavery, to risk their lives in cotton fields so that whites might benefit economically while blacks died prematurely. Men were forced, via the draft, to risk their lives on battlefields so that everyone else might benefit economically while men died prematurely.
The disproportionate numbers of blacks and males in war increases both blacks’ and males’ likelihood of experiencing post-traumatic stress, of becoming killers in postwar civilian life as well, and of dying earlier. Both slaves and men died to make the world safe for freedom – someone else’s.”
