I have dwelt on this image a lot in the harsh post mortem of this past week, but I think it may serve, in decades ahead, as a talisman of the "in between"/liminal time we are in right now, frustrating, dark, and baffling. 1st
You may or may not have seen it, but there was a rather remarkable tweet this week about the profound "discomfort" and Group Shame by a pack of "BloomBros" when their Alpha was mataphorically deballed by the fearsome "schoolmarm" Elizabeth Warren. 2.
The Bros had happily headed off to a bar to watch their Alpha debate, and, presumably a bit well oiled by the time defenestration began, their careful wall was likely
a bit breached, down to the emotional layer normally kept tightly wrapped. 3.
a bit breached, down to the emotional layer normally kept tightly wrapped. 3.
UP comes dark Shadow lurking inside every high-fiving Bro calling his friend a "pussy" for passing out from dehydration after a 20 mile bike ride through the humidity of a DC August (witness by me) A woman (and an older, "un-___able" woman at that, had brought down his hero! 4.
I do have a sense of pity for the narrow squelching of emotional range the Bro is trained in from a young age in our culture. The older male role model, the Spartan contempt for a young male child's pain and tears. 5.
But my pity is tempered by my anger that the same bar debate viewer noted the Bloombros "had no problem" with the whole sexual harrassment/stop and frisk thing. #Grr
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So where does Sen Kamala Harris come in here?
Well, she is sui generis. A politician who has given birth to herself.
Well, she is sui generis. A politician who has given birth to herself.
Bros of our culture are split in two. The Anima to their Animus, the softness is despised, with contempt projected out ontoThe Female. I posit that under nfluence of a few brewskis, the spectre of The Female turning, becoming Kali The Avenger, the Castrator, was invoked.
Sen Harris, on a totally unique path, has synthesized her Anima and Animus in an integrated manner. I believe this integration, placed within a charismatic and, yes, beautiful package, discomfits status quo of poor Chad from Accounting.
So what now? As noted in first tweet, I still do believe we are in a liminal time. Unlike I witnessed in 1984, the topic of a woman as President/VP is no longer greeted with a table full of bros spitting out their pizza and spilling the Zimas from laughing so hard.
Why have 65 OTHER nations managed to select a FEMALE head of state without the men screaming in metaphorical pain over their lost gonads? Perhaps the USA has some seriously F-ed up Bro (and distaff Bro-ette) wires it has to unravel.
Well, that is IT for now.
Moe.
Well, that is IT for now.
Moe.
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