Funny
bone??—Well Webster’s dictionary
says
its that weird place
towards
the back of the elbow
where
the ulnar nerve rests.
If
you’ve bumped it,
you
know it’s there.
But
feminists’ funnybone
is
in a different location than most.
It’s
not that bony elbow
that most people know.
Somewhere
between the brains that houses our ideology,
and
the heart where our passion lives,
rests
the feminist funnybone.
And
do we need it ever.
After a hard day’s work of campaigning for equality
and sending out chain emails
to get signatures for the next round of
legislation
that
threatens to return women to the Middle Ages,
we
need something.
Laughter
is healing,
and
quite frankly, from where I stand,
feminists
don’t laugh enough.
We
don’t laugh at the outrageous world
in
which we live,
we
don’t laugh
at
the insaneness
of
watching legislation
that
gave us full rights
begin
to shrink
(call
it an Alice moment)
right
before our eyes,
we
don’t laugh
at
our own contradictions
and
tensions within the women’s movement,
and
we certainly don’t laugh for fun.
Watch
for more and share your feminist funnybone moment :
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Accessed May 23, 2010