TRUMP’S INFLUENCE…

Published November 14, 2024 by Nan Mykel

Trump’s Influence: “It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. … Women are doing great.” [Oct. 2, 2018]

While many schools are no longer teaching about “Stranger Danger” …banning both books and sex education on one hand, our president elect is advising men to “deny anything that’s said about you.”

Since the election, misogynistic remarks about women have been reported: New York (CNN) — Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” have surged across social media …Trump’s behavior appears to tie into child abuse, per a blog of Jill Dennison that I highly recommend today. Clue–concerns Gaetz and other possible pedophiles he has control over.

AND NETANYAHU’S BEHAVIOR

For more than a year, Mr. Netanyahu has denied being briefed in advance about the invasion. He has avoided setting up a state inquiry to assess the culpability of Israel’s military and political leaders, including himself. Was he willingly sacrificing his own people to justify an all-out war? Sort of reminds me of Bush and 9/11’s “surprise.”

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A.I. in the Studio

In addition to “figuring out stuff” technically, A.I. has invaded human artists and creativity itself, belittling it down apparently to its bare bones of ho hum. What’s left to bolster the value of humanity? Did A.I. vivify Trump? (That’s as dumb an idea as Trump’s many)….When will A.I. get to mimicking religion? Or, like Trump, professing itself as our savior? Oooh, I sound cranky, don’t I? But I refuse to tinker with the free A.I. toys to slant reality. Reality? Reality anyone?

Whatever was that?

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OH MY! AI!

We’ve outgrown our underpants,

Creation down to the nub.

Ay, that’s the rub.

Cause for alarm

and yes, harm.

Dumpster diving for a soul.

This is Why Women May Not Thank You For Catcalling (Reblog)

Published August 5, 2017 by Nan Mykel

She says it like it is:

The One in Four

It’s just a casual stroll down the street. That’s all it is.

Nothing more, nothing less.

A simple quest to buy milk, or to collect bed linen from the Laundrette’s, with no underlying intentions whatsoever. Walking along the roadside, you lean down to tie up your shoelaces, to adjust the buckle on your knee-high boots.
“Hey, Blondie. Nice tits.” The young men outside the bakery yell after you. “I would.” They turn to their mates and snigger.
They turn to their mates and tell them they want to fuck you.

You would think-or at least, hope-that in this day and age, after years of campaigning and crying outside of parliament, that we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But in a world that has appointed a self-confessed pussy-grabbing maniac as it’s head of state, I can-categorically- announce that we are: and that, as much as it breaks my soul to admit…

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Poetics: Persona Poem

Published January 13, 2016 by Nan Mykel

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OUT TO GET ME

On the streets of New York

every woman wears a lasso at her side.

She struts her stuff and gives a wink–

or was an eyelash in her eye?

Her beauty lures me to her until I am

the captor, no longer her, and with

my marriage vows in shambles,

she escapes. There ought be a law.

(Idon’t know how to get my poem to you)

My comment would be: When researching for my first book, I read “Men Who Rape,” by Nicholas Groth, and found that many men experience the attractiveness of women as an aggressive magnet used against them.