“Apenas o mastro em que a bandeira é hasteada e o vento. Nenhuma bandeira” (II)

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority" – Arthur Schopenhauer

"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions" – Arthur Schopenhauer

"Patriotism corrupts history" – Goethe

"Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind" – Thorstein Veblen

"At the bottom of all patriotism is war: that is why I am no patriot" – Jules Renard

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!" – Albert Einstein

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched" – Guy de Maupassant

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed" – Luis Buñuel

Vai exterminá-los?...

SEJA NA VERSÃO "BELLE DE JOUR", SEJA ENQUANTO DRª BROOKE MAGNANTI, NÃO HÁ MUITO MAIS GENTE A DAR USO TÃO INTELIGENTE À TOTALIDADE DO CORPO (do pescoço para baixo e do pescoço para cima)

Reparem, por exemplo, aqui:

To Slutwalk or not To Slutwalk?

"Technically, this is not a pressing concern for me, since I live far, far in the depths of the Scottish Highlands, in a very small village which boasts exactly one drinking establishment (staffed by our closest neighbour). With the odds of street attacks by anything other than an angry ground-nesting bird rather low, I imagine organising a Slutwalk in the West Highlands would be met with puzzlement and not a little confusion. (...) In principle, I support the notion of the Slutwalks. (...) Why is this worth bringing up? Simply because, with Slutswalks springing up here, there, and not-quite-everywhere in the UK, it seems a crucial founding message has been lost. That women should not be regarded as targets even if sex is their work.

Unfortunately, the version of Slutwalking that has come here seems only selectively interested in the original message... since most of the organisers, and most vocal participants in Slutwalks, are exactly the same people who turned up en masse outside London's new Playboy club to jeer women at work. (...) While gender solidarity in the face of differing opinion is no doubt a worthy concept, I found I was losing untold time and energy trying to explain to other women why I, too, should be regarded not only as an authentic woman with an authentic sexual self, but as a human being, full stop. There are feminists who dehumanise sex workers in a way that is sickening to read, and they are increasingly quoted by and respected in the mainstream. Sorry, ladies - ya lost me when you equated renting access to sexual favours with not having a brain, a free will, or an ability to discern real allies from real haters".

Slutwalk Lisboa

(2011)

A NOSSA COLEGA BLOGGER, "BELLE DE JOUR"

"Meet Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger and former prostitute whose explicit, funny, articulate, eye-popping online Diary of a London Call Girl has fascinated millions of readers worldwide. Here she is: Belle, the famous tart, whose books became runaway bestsellers, who was played on screen by Billie Piper in the television series based on them, whose brand is instantly recognisable to anyone who uses the internet or bookshops and who has stirred up a considerable amount of controversy through her writing-as-a-whore career, not least because she has always refused to condemn prostitution as being necessarily bad or sad: our very own second-wave Happy Hooker. (...)

She’s real, all right, and I’m sitting on the bed next to her. Her name is Dr Brooke Magnanti. Her specialist areas are developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. She has a PhD in informatics, epidemiology and forensic science and is now working at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health. She is part of a team researching the effects of exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos on foetuses and infants". (entrevista integral aqui + aqui)

(2009)