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This is why I'm an angry feminist. This woman was an amazing writer and a strong and fascinating personality but the go to summation of her life was that she was "plain of feature and overweight". So very,very tired of seeing amazing human beings reduced to the question of whether they're "pretty" or not.

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I am just attempting to share what I have learned. There are many other ways to start a business, actually if all people want to do is each agree to do what they can towards a common goal, that might just do it. There would have to be a means to get paid for your efforts. That is if you are going to make money, which is the way this country works above ground. Underground all one has to do is get around the IRS.

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About starting a business and getting money to do so. I have talked to investors. Money to invest is not a problem, there are many who have money to invest. The problem is the ideas behind the business and the people who are going to run it. A new idea with the thought behind it developed to make it work is the hard part. Most investors want a sizable chunk of the business and management capabilities to insure their money. There is a buyout option to get them out once the business is profitable. Location is not a problem anymore because of the internet. More later if interested.

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I am getting really tired of this mindset. Judging someone by their looks is a waste. A waste of talent, reason, resources, and if one really wants to go their profit. I cannot believe that our society has not figured out that everyone has something they can teach, something they can contribute that will aid the society to further develop into something that works for everyone. This society, I do not know what else to call it, works only for the rich. It takes a lot of effort and luck to get anywhere. This is what you are referring to. If everyone was able to contribute to the best of their ability, rather than to what works for a company that already has an agenda and only facilitates to that agenda, waste is generated. People do not know what to do as the goals of the nation do not match what would make more prosper. I have always thought that a room full of unemployed people would have the mental resources to create a business, but since there is usually not a person who is willing to take the risk, nothing happens. We all look for someone to help us out, we do not have access to others that could come together to make a great resource for others. The resources earth of us now have far exceeds all before us. The advertisement Common did during the Olympics tells it all. Hope I am making sense.

As for starting businesses,you have to factor in the financial policies of the country these days. Most of the tax codes and licensing requirements seem geared to make starting a business from scratch very difficult while favoring established,corporate businesses.

@Fanburger that's not been my experience.

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Is Mary Beard known at all over your side of the Atlantic? She's a professor of Classics at Cambridge and an absolute delight - she's fiercely intelligent and has very strong opinions on a lot of things, so the tabloid press try to give her a hard time but she makes them look stupid with a few words every time. 🙂

Jnei Level 8 Mar 8, 2018

Well I now have a reading list for the month,thank you!

@Blindbird She's great. I'm sure you'll love her! 🙂

@Jnei one of my feminist heroes is Molly Ivins . She passed away a few years ago and I miss her writing.

@Blindbird Now I've got a reading list too 🙂

@Jnei too bad you're so far away. I'd loan you my copies of her books.

@Blindbird Also sadly lost to us just recently: Michele Hanson, feminist and socialist columnist for *The Guardian" newspaper [theguardian.com]

@Blindbird Best not to lend me any books as I'm the very worst sort of person - a terrible book-thief. If anyone lends me anything interesting, they never see it again!

@Jnei haha

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That sort of thing really irritates me. It happens so often in certain British newspapers - intelligent women with intelligent things to say dismissed because they don't look like supermodels... and then if an intelligent woman with intelligent things to say does happen to look like a supermodel, she'll be dismissed too because if she looks like that she must be a bimbo. Apparently, it's not only what they look like - society just has a problem with women having opinions.

Jnei Level 8 Mar 8, 2018

So very true. Bleeds into everything else as well. Women support themselves and don't need men's money. They're manhaters and frigid. Women choose to be homemakers,they're leeches. Woman likes sex,she's a whore,woman doesn't like sex, something must be wrong with her. It just goes on and on. All of these assumptions and expectations and dismissal of women as people while vilifying them for not being more like men or being too much like men.

@Blindbird "Women support themselves and don't need men's money" reminds me of something I read recently about the term "spinster", which has come to mean a woman who can't find a man to become her husband and is therefore to be pitied. Apparently, in the days when most women had to marry if they were to live anything other than a life of grinding poverty and hardship, it meant a woman who was successful in her own right and made enough money of her own to remain unmarried and live independently through her own choice. That makes me think two things : 1 - how the hell did it ever take on a derogatory meaning and 2 - this a term that really needs to be reclaimed and used proudly!

@Jnei indeed

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talking abouy who?

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