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In the Shadows of Men: We are Extensions to Our Mothers
WE ARE EXTENSIONS TO OUR MOTHERS
How much we become an extension of our mothers without even realizing it. We forget our childhoods quickly, and immediately take on the role of the mother. We forget we were also children. We forget the emotions of our youth and their warnings. We forgive and tolerate until we become a copy of the women who raised us.
We live as Alice Miller, the psychologist, described in her book, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: “I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively—because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.” According to Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, we avoid learning anything about our origins. “Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, [adults] avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that it no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.”
I became the copy of my mother that I didn’t want to become. I understood her and tolerated her, but after my childhood, I wanted to be nothing like her. This was not because she was not a role model, but because she was not satisfied with her life and her circumstances and where she ended up. How did I become my mother in my adulthood? I wanted to be what she frequently aspired to be, and to achieve the fading dreams she could not follow.
Once I realized this, I allowed the child in me to take over and help me prepare. She whispered reminders and played along with me and my children. I would give my daughter a harsh glance if she misbehaved, and I would run to the closet for a shoe I could raise against her. But suddenly, the child in me would appear with her arms folded, scolding me: “Do you remember how you felt when your mother did this to you?” I was about to throw the shoe, but I stopped in an instant, reliving that deep memory from the past. Then I put the shoe down and called my daughter to me, embracing her and showering her with kisses.
In this way, my inner child and my motherhood joined forces. We became friends and began to get to know one another. As a result, motherhood became an amusing childhood journey filled with adventures and independence.
Italian man, 95, resident in UK for 68 years, told to prove it
As racist and stupid as Britain can get

Antonio Finelli, a UK state pension recipient for 32 years, was asked for proof when he applied to stay post-Brexit
A 95-year-old Italian man who has been in the UK for 68 years has been asked to prove he is resident in the country by the Home Office in order to remain after Brexit, despite receiving the state pension for the past 32 years.
Antonio Finelli came to the country in 1952 when he answered an appeal for immigrant labour as part of the reconstruction effort after the second world war ended.
Ted Cruz criticizes vasectomy bill, exposing his hypocrisy on reproduction rights
Unwitting boost to Alabama Democrat pushing back on restrictive abortion laws by objecting to her vasectomy proposal on Twitter
Ted Cruz, the Republican Texas senator, has given an unwitting boost to an Alabama lawmaker’s attempt to push back on restrictive abortion laws in her state, by tweeting about her proposal to force men to have vasectomies when they reach the age of 50.
Democratic representative Rolanda Hollis introduced the measure to the state House last week, intending it as protest against a law passed by the Alabama legislature last year to outlaw abortion in almost every case unless the life of the mother was at risk.
Chinese doctors using plasma therapy on coronavirus, WHO says ‘very valid’ approach
Lots of Rich Men Tweet Like the President Now
As the sun sets on them they seem to glow bigger but them sink quickly below the horizon. From Goldman Sachs to Amazon to the Democratic contenders, older rich men are going wild online.
German far-right ‘terror cell’ met on WhatsApp: report

The alleged members of the terror network arrested in Germany last week called themselves “The Hard Core” and reportedly had links with a Finnish far-right group. A home-made scatter rifle was found during the raids.
Donald Trump says he has the ‘legal right’ to interfere in criminal cases
More fascist bullshit but what does GOP Senate care?

United States President Donald Trump says he has “the legal right” to interfere in criminal cases, raising questions about the independence of the American judicial system.
NYPD Subpoenaed Reporter’s Twitter Account, Citing Patriot Act
just another brick in the fascist wall 
“It is reminiscent of how countries without democratic safeguards use anti-terrorism laws to dampen or retaliate against critical journalism.” [ more › ]
Tennessee Republicans worry women will go on tampon-buying frenzy
A special kind of stupid and cruel.
During a three-day sales tax holiday, shoppers are allowed to buy computers and clothing tax-free, but not feminine products
Women can’t be trusted around tax-free tampons. If you cut the price of menstrual products they’re bound to go tampon-mad and buy boxes of the stuff, just for the hell of it. They’d line their walls with super-plus, they’d polish their floors with pads; it would be absolute bedlam.
That appears to be what Republicans in Tennessee think, anyway. On Tuesday GOP lawmakers pushed back against a proposal that would include sanitary products in Tennessee’s annual sales-tax holiday. The three-day event, held at the end of July, allows shoppers to buy items like computers and clothing without paying the usual 7% state sales tax.
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