Unrest - reviews and general articles

I thought it was very restrained of you :).

Just wittering on a little more about the article.

As the intro strives to convey, its target readership is those who do not have ME, and maybe have nothing seriously wrong with them. The don't do google searches on ME/CFS like we do, they probably have never heard of it, though they may well know someone they assume is just lazy. You have to do something to make people stop and realise that such an article is relevant to them. It's the same rationale as shop window displays in a busy high street; businesses don't invest all that space and money so they can go out and look at it themselves, they do it to catch people's attention who might otherwise pass by. Of course many people do go straight by, but of the people who do go into the shop, there will be those who would not have done without the window.

I know you fully understand this, but dropped into soap box mode.

Vogue “Strike a Pose”

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I'm heading towards my 65th birthday too! I appreciate that your desire is to be polite, but I recall being told so many times by my father that 'ladies don't do that', and replying so many times that I wasn't a lady then, that I haven't appreciated the term 'lady' for a very long time!

How do you decide that someone, e.g. EC, is not a lady?

We have Lady Gaga, who is one tough, powerful, and outspoken woman.

VS the term “Lady Like”, which I feel is derogatory, and seems more like a term a finishing school would promote in 1950s.

Fortunately, my Father was smart enough never to tell me “ladies don’t do that”. Else my Mom and I would have kicked his ass to the curb.
 
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I generally prefer non-gendered ways....

Over time, I feel that a non-gendered approach is what we will be adapting to, because everyone must be included. I am more of the “Windows Classic” theme myself, regarding gender identity and gender attraction. I don’t think its fair to force anyone to fit into a stereotypical role.
 
Surely, not NHS GP waiting rooms, far too upmarket, not to mention it's a current edition - nothing but ancient trashy mags at ours, Katie Price is still married to Peter Andre, isn't she? :rolleyes:
They filter down to the minions eventually (joke!).
 
Virginia DeBolt
January 24, 2018

"............As Jennifer talked to other ME victims and learned their stories, she realized that millions of people were languishing away in bedrooms, their lives unlived, their dreams unfulfilled. She termed them “missing.” People didn’t even know they existed because they never saw them. ME sufferers never get to do the things they want, go the places they want, be who they want to be."

http://oldaintdead.com/review-unrest/#more-25452
 
I'm not particularly familiar with the politics of this, but someone appears to have posted a lengthy critique of Unrest that accuses Jennifer Brea of planning to exploit someone's funeral. Fairly long read, for those who struggle to take in info:

http://planetthrive.com/2018/01/unrest-review-part-1/

I think it's completely ridiculous but in the interest of balance I thought it was worthy of posting here.
 
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