RE/Search #13. Angry Women.
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PJycho-alerts go on) nevertheless I don't think there's a possibility for true change without some sort of very carefully drawn out Intellectlwl surge -despite the saying, "Never trust an intellectual!" (or certainly, "a German with an idea!"). I don't know of any revolutionary instinct that hasn't been fed by so-called "abstract" notions. People who are distressed over what they call abstractions or theorizations are too impatient• AJ: As Walter Benjamin said, "He who claims to be without.
E!.'e",bere. Th is is a very dangerous schizo-relation to what happenedparticularly because it is an effect of the projections of a very disturbed presidency. • AJ: You're talking about human life being devalued into meaninglessness: the fact that perhaps 300,000 Iraqis were massacred in the span of two months. Fifty years ago we felt "morally right" when we bombed Hiroshima - yet when that bomb dropped, as a human response our culture was Jbocked at the horror. It's amazing that now we've so.
Slightly lower income, lower-educated people from the suburbs-away from wherever it is they're protesting. They're people who feel threatened by the increase in Black, Latino, and Asian populations. These demonstrations are usually organized by their churches, and they come out in mass groups-it's like their "work picnic." • DM: And they bring their children - many times it's a "family affair." • SK: And they're predominantly male-there's a lot ofyoung Jingle mell. Many are "Born Agains" rather.
Ascribe a negative connotation to anger.) In the '60s the expression "Angry Young Man" came into vogue (personified by a sexy, desirable James Dean), but there was no corresponding "Angry Young Woman" role model. From the beginning of their lives, women have been conditioned to be [too] polite, compliant, helpful and "nice." Women are ve uncomfortable with the idea of bein a rebel, and men are pay u ncom ona e wit women ou tsi ers. W en re eliously critiquing society, women have never been cast.
-keep plodding along. But we've got to get rid of this -we must have that equality and acknowledgment. So I'm trying to break through, and I hope the next generation can contribute even more. Photo: Dona Ann McAdams artists living on the Lower East Side. 1 think the only reason 1 got to do it is because no one wanted to do a public sculpture there-they want to do things in Central Park or some place that's "cool and hip." I wasn't sure what the response would be, but it's been really positive.