Date: 2009-08-16 10:19 pm (UTC)
I have heard this analysis from social workers working on domestic violence. Every time government policies require Israelis to impose more violence on Palestinians, that violence spills over into Israeli homes. It's not visible but it's a scary side effect.

There is no really great place to be queer, because homophobia is part of a system of enforcing conformity and hierarchy, in particular inequality for women. In industrialized, modern societies and in traditional societies in transition, every stride forward for the right of the individual to make their own choices is met with a reimposition of boundaries and definitions, sometimes enforced with violence.

I just don't know what happens to Israeli society if all the yefei nefesh, bleeding heart types make yeridah. Yet I'm sitting comfortably in one of the few states in the US with gay marriage, smug in my inclusive little queer-friendly observant Jewish community, where we can all be Jewish however the hell we want. It's your life and you have to decide where you can live safely and freely. I'm not supporting a quietist position or something, I just didn't choose to do what at least two of my college classmates did, make aliyah in order to work for human rights and justice there. Even though it makes me incredibly happy and proud that you are there, and believe in these things and do them--you're not a human sacrifice.
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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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