Foot and Fire

       The books I dearly hold at the moment. A Lecture on Feminist Ethics  What are the words that come to mind when we hear the word, Femininst? Girl, Female, Woman, Womanhood, Feminist, Maternal, Matriarchal, Herstory These are the words we associate with our being a woman. I wish I have another word    to set myself apart from the rest of the pack. But the reality is, I am not an original. I immensely benefitted from the thinking and story weaved by women who fought for what I enjoy right now and men who supported those thoughts and story. We are the fruit of the struggles of the past women, and the men who supported them. The online poster the Communnications and Technology students came up with. But why do I have the desire to set myself apart? With the informations we are fed each day just by checking our social media or hitting google search and Wikipedia, we think that the answers to all our questions relating to WOMAN had ...

I was planning to read this heavy book before the year ends but because we were on forced homestay, I got the chance to start and finish it. I am happy that I chose this book over my stack of titles because it is a timely book to read given the pandemic that we are experiencing right now.   The author warmed up by explaining how we as Sapiens remained as the only homo in the story of our evolution. It is not physical strength but or language that made us through. I mentioned that this is a heavy book but of course, I judged it by its title but as I went through the chapters, actually this book is very readable and tinged with wit, or maybe it just cannot be helped that our lives since time immemorial is filled with irony. For example, we survived because we tend to gossip and believe in myths. hahahaha!