I will spare you the in depth psychiatric analysis of the societal pathology that led to the making of this video. Instead, I will lead you straight into the middle of a storied cliché, where the true birth of many tales begin.
For months, I had listened and watched silently as the MSM and press engaged in repeated misogynist and sexist attacks against Hillary Rodham Clinton and I did nothing. As time went on I was filing away these attacks mentally and carrying them with me emotionally. Day after day, week after week, I watched feeling more and more grief for Hillary and her campaign. Then one day, one of the more egregious attackers came on and I jumped up and ran frantically looking for my remote control to turn him off. I had completely stopped watching all the main stream media "reports" on Hillary by now as a final act of emotional self preservation. The next thing I knew I tripped and fell face first on to the floor, where, I laid, crying as I listened to this nationally known television reporter describe Hillary as having a multiple personality disorder. And it is here where I bring to you my cliché. At that very moment, as I stood up I finally allowed my grief to morph into its rightful state of rage. How DARE this country place me, an American citizen in the position of having to run to turn off my own television to keep from hearing these daily vicious, hateful, sexist demeaning attacks against a woman who is running for President of the United States. How the hell is this happening in the most powerful country in the world and WHERE are the feminist voices speaking out to STOP this on going slaughter?
I decided to make a video; however, since I only stumbled on to YouTube six months earlier and have the technical skills of a reincarnated rock, I had to send a shout out to the universe to send me a smart feminist Hillary supporting techie who would breathe life into my dream. And oh yeah, while you're at it universe, make sure she/he would work for free.
It was on the Taylor Marsh web site, that synchronicity danced her straight into my heart.
We began with exchanging ideas of what type of video we would make. She wanted to make a "Rocky" video since Hillary's next stop was Philadelphia. And me, being the manipulative trickster that I am sometimes am, praised her mightily for such a fine idea, while carefully explaining that I had something a little more "dramatic" in mind. It was a hard sell. "So you want to make a video of a bunch of men bad mouthing Hillary and then have a song that promotes the idea that she's is a BITCH"? "Hmmm, I don't know, I'll have to think about that was her fair and gracious response to my idea. Within 24 hours she was fully committed. Not only was she a techie, but she was wickedly creative, fiercely brilliant, had a detective eye of discernment and tweaked my every idea into perfection. As a therapist I knew damn well what I wanted to say with words, images, symbols and theme. As a level headed criminal trial attorney she was able to use her tech knife with the brilliance of the surgeon she is, carefully cutting away my excesses, until both our ideas and images were honed into a final harmony that we both could be proud of. This was my first video and her fifth. We have never met, but somehow feel we have known each other forever.
I have since been asked if I had known that the video would receive the attention it has and I must admit I never had a single doubt ever, that this video would do any less. Reduced down into its finest form lies the single most important expression each of us has in our society. And that expression for all of us is truth. Truth is universal. I trust truth. So when I saw this morning that a blogger in Mexico had our video on his front page, I can honestly say, I am not surprised.
When a society forms a silent agreement that allow men to come on television for months on end and compare a female presidential contender to:
- a dog on a leash;
- the grandmaster of the KKK;
- a mentally ill inhuman IT pimp;
- a nagging deceitful cackling wife;
- a humiliated woman without any redeeming political value;
- A spoiled white woman who's never worked hard for anything in her life;
- a woman who is so masculine she must shave her face; and
- and a woman who is such a threat to America that we may have to take her out and kill her behind a barn
Then WHY wouldn't that be world wide news? This is not just sexism, this is full blown character assassination and today our silent agreement ends.
And I do not believe for one second that it is a coincidence that you are here today with this video and listening to my words as you take to the streets to bring attention to this madness. There are no accidents. We were meant to be.
So, as you walk these streets today, know that my heart beats, within each and every one of your hearts. With every step you take, together, our voices rise with the collective power of truth. The misogynist hatred toward women that is spewed forth each day into the living rooms across American from the Main Stream Media must END now. There are NO VOICES LEFT to stop this travesty… EXCEPT OUR OWN.
Thank you for all have done,
Most sincerely,
IndyRobin

3 comments:
Obama does know how to speak out against media representations he finds "unacceptable"--if it's Michelle.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=4881883&page=1
Nijma
Thank you with all my heart for this blog, for these videos. I am proud of you and all who are taking a stand.
Tina
Thank you so much! You have helped more than you can imagine!
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