I'm 73 and can appreciate all types of music but that is not the norm when you want to share content that people will actually watch or read. Tom MacDonald is more rap, not punk but I like his honesty and talent.
I am a spoken word late bloomer. Best wishes in Chiapas. I am envious of you being in one of the recent histories more freedom living areas. Peace, love and freedom, Kman, (Ken)
You might attract a lot more attention and shares if you were to bear in mind that a lot of people read Substack articles during their mealbreaks or bus journeys etc. They also do so from a mobile phone which does not necessarily make it easy to load massive long missives with multi-points that head towards a loose objective.
I read from my laptop. I am retired so I don't often think 'TLDR' - too long, didn't read. Your title was good, it drew me in but the long meander through the various forms of sexism caused me to lose the plot. I kept thinking 'where is this going?'.
I see your answer to another comment here is that punk music lyrics are worth hearing and I am sure they are.... if one could actually decypher what is being said under that barrage of disconcerting chaotic noise.
Finally, with great relief I arrived at the concluding paragraphs and was shocked by them. Are you kidding me? My indignation at being led through a labyrinth only to arrive at a completely erroneous conclusion exploded in my head.
Abortion is a bad business, whatever the reason for doing it. But, given that we can know the sex of a foetus very early in a pregnancy, and would prefer to give birth to one sex or the other works both ways. What about the woman who has had six boys, is approaching the end of her reproductive life and is desperate to have a girl? Is she being sexist when she chooses to terminate the pregnancy if the foetus is another boy?
Like I said. Abortion is a bad business, because I have never known a single woman who went through with an abortion who did not live to regret it. Regardless of what sex the infant might have developed into.
I know one woman who terminated a baby when she was only 17 years old. She never got pregnant again - and she certainly tried.
The other issue I have with your meanderings is the focus on black slavery. The tired old assumption that slavery is an exclusively white on black crime. Is it fuck.
Here in Britain, the Romans invaded before Jesus was even a twinkle in his father's eye. Everyone, regardless of sex or ethnicity was immediately either murdered or enslaved. Many of them were hauled off to Rome to be fed to the lions or forced to fight to the death in the Colosseum. Many concubines in the harems of the Ottoman Empire where white European girls. Blondes are still most valuable in the sex slave markets.
Irish people were enslaved by the British ship owners and sold off to Caribbean estates, British men were press-ganged into working on those ships! The working classes of Britain were working for the aristocracy for a pittance right up to the turn of the 20th century and the rubbish wages we witness today, regardless of our sex is nothing short of slavery still.....
You see what ranging over a bunch of loose subjects causes?
It causes your reader to wonder what the hell your point is..... it infuriates the reader by wandering all over the place when you could have focused on your intended subject, selective abortion without associating it with feminism, sexism or slavery..... because it is none of those things.
Abortion is violence against an under-developed living being which cannot defend itself and it is indicative of a whole society which has a very thin sense of morality.
If you really want to get down to brass tacks about it, we could say that it is on a par with crushing seeds to make flour or boiling them to provide some carbohydrates to an otherwise insubstantial meal.
I'm 73 and can appreciate all types of music but that is not the norm when you want to share content that people will actually watch or read. Tom MacDonald is more rap, not punk but I like his honesty and talent.
I am a spoken word late bloomer. Best wishes in Chiapas. I am envious of you being in one of the recent histories more freedom living areas. Peace, love and freedom, Kman, (Ken)
You might attract a lot more attention and shares if you were to bear in mind that a lot of people read Substack articles during their mealbreaks or bus journeys etc. They also do so from a mobile phone which does not necessarily make it easy to load massive long missives with multi-points that head towards a loose objective.
I read from my laptop. I am retired so I don't often think 'TLDR' - too long, didn't read. Your title was good, it drew me in but the long meander through the various forms of sexism caused me to lose the plot. I kept thinking 'where is this going?'.
I see your answer to another comment here is that punk music lyrics are worth hearing and I am sure they are.... if one could actually decypher what is being said under that barrage of disconcerting chaotic noise.
Finally, with great relief I arrived at the concluding paragraphs and was shocked by them. Are you kidding me? My indignation at being led through a labyrinth only to arrive at a completely erroneous conclusion exploded in my head.
Abortion is a bad business, whatever the reason for doing it. But, given that we can know the sex of a foetus very early in a pregnancy, and would prefer to give birth to one sex or the other works both ways. What about the woman who has had six boys, is approaching the end of her reproductive life and is desperate to have a girl? Is she being sexist when she chooses to terminate the pregnancy if the foetus is another boy?
Like I said. Abortion is a bad business, because I have never known a single woman who went through with an abortion who did not live to regret it. Regardless of what sex the infant might have developed into.
I know one woman who terminated a baby when she was only 17 years old. She never got pregnant again - and she certainly tried.
The other issue I have with your meanderings is the focus on black slavery. The tired old assumption that slavery is an exclusively white on black crime. Is it fuck.
Here in Britain, the Romans invaded before Jesus was even a twinkle in his father's eye. Everyone, regardless of sex or ethnicity was immediately either murdered or enslaved. Many of them were hauled off to Rome to be fed to the lions or forced to fight to the death in the Colosseum. Many concubines in the harems of the Ottoman Empire where white European girls. Blondes are still most valuable in the sex slave markets.
Irish people were enslaved by the British ship owners and sold off to Caribbean estates, British men were press-ganged into working on those ships! The working classes of Britain were working for the aristocracy for a pittance right up to the turn of the 20th century and the rubbish wages we witness today, regardless of our sex is nothing short of slavery still.....
You see what ranging over a bunch of loose subjects causes?
It causes your reader to wonder what the hell your point is..... it infuriates the reader by wandering all over the place when you could have focused on your intended subject, selective abortion without associating it with feminism, sexism or slavery..... because it is none of those things.
Abortion is violence against an under-developed living being which cannot defend itself and it is indicative of a whole society which has a very thin sense of morality.
If you really want to get down to brass tacks about it, we could say that it is on a par with crushing seeds to make flour or boiling them to provide some carbohydrates to an otherwise insubstantial meal.
I like the written word/video mashup. Well done. But most people I share with would be turned off by the heavy metal. Such is life....Kman
Tom MacDonald is not perfect but you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater for one song..Cheers, Kman