17th August 2025

 

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel The Elder 1563

I went to another meeting at the Folklore Centre yesterday, it was given by Holly Elsdon.  'Red Threads and Rabbit holes ' . A very complete dive into feminism and theories.  The sort of stuff you pick-up on all the social media.  The young being influencers and spouting their latest beliefs in a whole set of phenomena that attracts them.  The people who see great world forces taking over and becoming dominant and the various organisations set up to moderate world affairs such as the UN and Unesco, as some sort of evil overlords.  And not forgetting feminism either which runs as a thread through out.

The advent of the internet has spawned this horror of everyone having a say in whatever matter that happens to be in the news.  We are all guilty (myself included).  I suppose it comes from curious minds, but then, some minds are pretty weird ;)  Free speech and democracy has a lot to answer for.  We need more philosopher's out there but not necessarily algorithm's sorting out our muddled minds.

It is as if storytelling has to be told not in the fables and myths of old history but in the current world happenings.  For me such things drift through like the computer cloud that doesn't exist in reality but is functioning up there in the sky.

I went off the concept of feminism years ago, perhaps I should not have.   But it was Germaine Greer and her exposure of parts of her anatomy, that should not really be on public display.  I obviously believe in the equality of women and the need to battle such horror as the misogynist Tate, who appears to be colouring the minds of young teenage boys, wrapped up in their bedrooms in the dark of the night taking in his poisonous words.  It is definitely not a battle between the sexes for dominance only equality and understanding.

My two feminist authors I do read for their intellectual views are Naomi Klein and Rebecca Solnit.  But they do not write under the heading of feminism but only after causes.  That to me is the difference.  By not setting up a battlefield we achieve understanding at a slower pace.  All the horrors that exist in the world, have and will exist sadly, we are Homo Sapiens after all.