Melnrage

Ideal day in Lithuania:

- walk along the seashore for half a day, listen to the waves and absorb cold grey Baltic wind.

- then go to the pine forest, hug trees and enjoy birdwatching of squeaking chickadees and kinglets.

Filled me with enormous amount of energy, hopefully enough to survive the next month of looking for a new job project.

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Hah. Some overconfident p...ehm, alternatively intelligent male person called me 'ignorant terf' in the internet. Without any argument why, I guess just to vent his frustration about my 3 paragraphs of arguments why we should not create women from men, but instead build a society safe for kind and gentle men, not only for bullies.

I'm not 'terf', I'm not even proclaiming myself a feminist (saying instead 'I'm a ordinary woman and a humanist'). I'm someone who experienced real consequences of patriarchal society and wants to end patriarchy, replacing it with a humane and equality-supporting social order.

But this episode made me think that what the world is going through right now is an epidemic of 'let us make the whole world in our own image and likeness'.

We don't like women, they are not like us and want strange things, blaming us in creating patriarchy - we'll make our own 'women', convenient and understandable parodies instead of those inconvenient unhappy creatures.

We don't like people whose skin colour, culture and beliefs are different from ours (not posing us immediate threat) - let's banish them from our country, or at least from our environment.

"Let's hate everything and everyone that is not like us."

And then follows destruction of the world which is for billions of years lives on interaction and cooperation of very different life forms.