nice woman cop with Rottweiler- a personal experience
[ Sabrina Corgatelli, an
accountant for Idaho State University, appeared on NBC's "Today” show on
Monday to defend trophy hunting amid mounting international outrage
over last month's killing of Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion, by an
American dentist.
"Everybody thinks we're cold-hearted killers and
it's not that," Corgatelli said in the nationally televised interview.
"There is a connection to the animal, and just because we hunt them
doesn’t mean we don't have a respect for them. Giraffes are very
dangerous animals. They could hurt you seriously, very quickly."]
I read the above sickening news story right after hearing an
oh-so-politically correct radio MESSAGE urging fathers to warn their
growing boys - while still docile ?- that violence against females is
always taboo and morally despicable. I got this message in the religious
culture of my youth - implicit in the pre-Vatican II Baltimore
Catechism. But here it was a message with a context: women were life
givers and the very source of " unconditional love ".
Several decades of militant feminism have completely changed this
picture. Men began to joke about not offering any female a seat on the
bus. Militant feminists began to talk about abortion right with more
passion than the birth of a child. Women became cops and truck drivers
and jet fighter pilots and now combat killers.
As a
democratic Socialist I have no quarrel with basic social equality
between the sexes. But something GOOD was lost with the new images of a
woman as GI JOE or, as in the above news story, a crude and stupid big
game hunter. The world was a gentler kinder place when women in general
could corner the market on PITY.
I sensed this sad "
change " when a woman cop's Rottweiler surprised me with a sudden growl
on a side street. Backing away I fell in the street and injured my
shoulder. The woman cop did not apologize or try to console me while I
waited for an ambulance. No, she just slithered away ( after making a
cell phone call ) and I was left with a $30,000 hospital bill ( which
uninsured at the time I could never pay ) . That well remembered
incident happened almost 13 years ago on Reservoir Ave. in Cranston.I
wrote a letter to the editor about it that was published -but in
vain.They would never violate the woman cop's cell phone privacy rights.
When women are perceived to be just as tough and " mean " as the
traditional FIGHTING SEX what protective instincts do they arouse in
young men still tuned in to defend THEIR women and children ?
Any message against violence to women should have a context : the root
of violence in modern times is the cut throat culture of global
capitalism. And the war monger Harpy Hillary Clinton is rather
infatuated with power and violence ON THE TOP . Vote for Hillary - a woman's turn ?
And even
the image of the Mother of God has been corrupted by the capitalist
culture of violence. The disgraced Catholic priest Father John Corapi
said in a pro-war rant on EWTN that" Mary wore combat boots ". HIS
Holy Mother ? Heaven help us !
Those combat boots could be nostalgically replaced with high heels.
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