history is depressing
Jul. 5th, 2012 04:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hypatia42the fuck am I up at this hour for? dunno.
Anita Sarkeesian came up for reasonable reasons on some sort of social networking site that I semi-frequent. She's not the real reason for this post though. Or maybe she is since she's the one that got me there. See apparently some asshat decided to compare her to Emma Goldman. I'm deciding that the person is an asshat because this is my journal and I am allowed to do that.
Emma Goldman was a right dodgy broad. Fought her entire life for freedom in sometimes violent fashion. Frequently thrown in jail for inciting rebellion and insisting that things like freedom of speech and access to birth control should be there for everyone. She was doing this around the edit : turn of the 20th century. Dude, bitch had balls.
This led me to discover the Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot). Wow. This is why we have unions people. Because a group representing the workers is more worthwhile than trusting that the people profiting from the workers will always have their best interests at heart. The governor that eventually pardoned the people who were left you ask? His opponents used his "liberal" stance on labor to get him ousted after only one term.
In other terms, people suck and then you die.
I'm going to try sleeping again. This sucks.
Anita Sarkeesian came up for reasonable reasons on some sort of social networking site that I semi-frequent. She's not the real reason for this post though. Or maybe she is since she's the one that got me there. See apparently some asshat decided to compare her to Emma Goldman. I'm deciding that the person is an asshat because this is my journal and I am allowed to do that.
Emma Goldman was a right dodgy broad. Fought her entire life for freedom in sometimes violent fashion. Frequently thrown in jail for inciting rebellion and insisting that things like freedom of speech and access to birth control should be there for everyone. She was doing this around the edit : turn of the 20th century. Dude, bitch had balls.
This led me to discover the Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot). Wow. This is why we have unions people. Because a group representing the workers is more worthwhile than trusting that the people profiting from the workers will always have their best interests at heart. The governor that eventually pardoned the people who were left you ask? His opponents used his "liberal" stance on labor to get him ousted after only one term.
In other terms, people suck and then you die.
I'm going to try sleeping again. This sucks.