MOTHERJONES: You’ve got a line on “MKLVFKWR”: “Power to the people not the government.”

CHUCK D: I think governments are the cancer of civilization. And the minute that we see seven or eight women get in a circle and start a war, I’ll be shocked like a motherfucker.

Lemme see, which line do I like more.

I’ll have to go with door number two, Monty.

“… the minute that we see seven or eight women get in a circle and start a war …”

Yea! I win the Chevrolet Monza! We all do!

Why haven’t I read anything like Chuck D’s statement before? Ever? Anywhere?

Or does it take a relaxed, confident black man to give us that kind of automatic credit, in public?

Automatic in the sense that he is not straining at the idea, his language indicates, if I read the signs right (semiotic pun) Hey, radical thought, people … and also, like: perfectly natural. And you know you won’t be seeing us plotting war. Why is that?

Could it be … there are more interesting ways to work things out? That women gravitate towards process—oops, another one for my list of Drives Men Fucking Crazy … at least men of a certain age. Are you young? Am I talking ancient history? Well then two things: write me, and About fucking time, girl!

No, let’s go back to the White Boy thing. I already know White Boys aren’t giving it away. Whether it’s links, credit, or their affections. What they know is hoard and withhold … it just ain’t manly, somehow, to give. For no reason? With no guarantee of return? What kind of loser shit is that?

You just watch out, White Boy, lest I stand Chuck D upside you …and blow your little mind about manly.

Yes indeed. It’s only a concept, it happens to be fucked, you inherited it from fathers who handed on a flawed idea, see?

Just don’t be messin’ with Chuck D.

He right, we right … You: in need of correction.

Santorum said he’s heard from ‘many’ women who tell him that it’s ‘easier,’ more ‘professionally gratifying’ and ‘more socially affirming’ to work outside the home than it is to take care of their own children. “Think about that for a moment,” Santorum writes. “Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.”

So. What you are saying, Senator Santorum, is that older women like myself, involved at the modest beginnings of Women’s Lib, um, planted a concept in the minds of younger women (are ya with me so far?) that (perhaps a little chip, behind their ear?) now causes them to experience an “ease” and “personal gratification” … which they don’t really feel?

Golly. I command millions.

You flamin’ frigtard. Make no sense whatsoever, just throw blame at wall, see what sticks. You know what that accomplishes, don’t you. A witless accusation reveals the accuser to be … witless. Say, wait a minute. Could it be, Senator, that you are what we used to call Part Of The Problem, oink oink?

And, let’s see, being a mother at home gets no respect. Which would mean, some portion of society looks down upon or ignores the value of a contribution beyond measure. Whooo could that portion be?

Staying home, taking care of small children, can be monstrously difficult, draining, boring. Lord knows.

But what I’ve heard from women is, having a job frees them not from kids and home—it frees them from having to take a single ounce of crap from Mr. Breadwinner and Sole Controller. Who (it is to laugh) “shares” his earnings with the unspoken (or, under the tiniest duress, way spoken) expectation that, in return for this largesse, he will be flattered, pleased, and generally taken care of.

And on his terms, fuck mental, spiritual or psychological health. You do know what I mean. The god of Male Ego is an angry, Old Testament god, and I am here to say, sleep with him at your peril.

I was once married to a guy like that. Did I ever fail to make him “happy!” I realized later, hey! There’s a whole profession that could have pleased him all along! But, see, he wanted it to look voluntary; he wanted it to look like love.

link: salon politics