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Miscellanea (again!)
May. 11th, 2012 09:26 amLast night I watched "Whores' Glory", a documentary triptych made by an Austrian director about the lives of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico, which Gerald had lent me. If you have a possibility to watch it and aren't easily squicked, watch it. It's disturbing -- for me the Mexican part was the most disturbing, probably because I understand Spanish (subtitles are kind of an additinal barrier) and because both sides, i.e. the "clients", too, got their say -- but excellent. It's hard not to think of our feminist struggles as totally futile, when you see the way women are treated in those parts of the world. Of course they aren't futile; we just started earlier and, in most cases, from a less desperate situation. It's just... when you see the testimony of this not-so-young-and-fresh-anymore prostitute in Bangladesh (and don't even get me started on *how* young the young ones are...) and she says that she doesn't get many clients anymore and doesn't have the necessary money to "employ" a few young ones herself, so she'll get kicked out of her hovel sooner rather than later and probably starve to death... The discussion on the wording of the Austrian national anthem ("Heimat bist Du großer Söhne" -- "you are homeland to great sons"), and ensuing insertion of "daughters" as well into the text -- it *does*seem even more ridiculous than before.
I'm going to have another mini-holiday -- my friend Lois will be coming to visit next Wednesday (very late so Wednesday doesn't count) and leave very early on Sunday, so I took Friday and Monday (18th and 21st) off work. Thursday is a public holiday anyway.
Survived pilates yesterday in spite of still-persisiting slight intoxication, but only because it was a very humane lesson with more stretching than actual exercise.
Tennis today, and Gerald will be coming, too, if only for the first hour. It's fun playing with him, because he's a good player and makes me run more; pregnant!Elena can't chase after every ball now, and it's the so-called desperation shots (term coined by me for those returns you just barely manage, and which are therefore extremely difficult to get for your opponent)
that really test a player's abilities. So yay!!! for tennis today.
And after that, WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to have another mini-holiday -- my friend Lois will be coming to visit next Wednesday (very late so Wednesday doesn't count) and leave very early on Sunday, so I took Friday and Monday (18th and 21st) off work. Thursday is a public holiday anyway.
Survived pilates yesterday in spite of still-persisiting slight intoxication, but only because it was a very humane lesson with more stretching than actual exercise.
Tennis today, and Gerald will be coming, too, if only for the first hour. It's fun playing with him, because he's a good player and makes me run more; pregnant!Elena can't chase after every ball now, and it's the so-called desperation shots (term coined by me for those returns you just barely manage, and which are therefore extremely difficult to get for your opponent)
that really test a player's abilities. So yay!!! for tennis today.
And after that, WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
