something: Hamas: We do not provide even a scrap of information regarding the abductees without compensation. Israel and the USA: We provide and drop everything to Hamas without a change.
International Cartoon Women’s Day
It is likely that this issue, which is published on International Women’s Day, will not be able to catch any prominent woman who was not written regarding today in one of the newspapers, or mentioned on the radio or television. Instead of sweating searching for a woman who hasn’t been written regarding before, on International Women’s Day, let me create a small international date on the sidelines and that is: International Cartoon Women’s Day.
Minnie Mouse, the friend of Mickey Mouse, will come first in the financial profits she made for using the rights of her cartoon character. I heard that the rights have expired, and maybe from now on it is allowed for everyone. Check before you use. After Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Donald Duck’s girlfriend, will appear in the International Cartoon Women’s Parade. From my childhood I liked Daisy Duck more (and Donald Duck more than Mickey).
We will not forget Popeye’s Olive. And there is no doubt that one of the great cartoon women is Marge Simpson, if she tolerates Homer, and properly raises Bart, the gifted Lisa (another respectable female cartoon character) and Maggie. Yes, Marge deserves a place of honor on International Cartoon Women’s Day. We will of course mention all the Disney princesses. From the gender-challenged of the past, Snow White and Cinderella, to today’s empowered and ethnic Disney princesses. First Pocahontas and also Elsa and Anna, Moana and even Mulan, who represents the women with the swords.
And now the question: is Barbie a cartoon character? Perhaps it should be said that she is a puppet character. In any case, there is a place to include Barbie in the great cartoon women for International Cartoon Women’s Day. In the past, the retarded Barbie was a figure that women who aspired to power loved to hate and shamed her, but in the past year she returned in the movie “Barbie”, full of lust for power and pursuing achievements with behavior typical of an insecure man worthy of his name, and was adopted into the bosom of powerful women.
Above them all stands, with bulletproof bracelets, Wonder Woman. She was born as a cartoon character in comics (which I didn’t like in my childhood), and reached a peak in my pro-Israeli eyes when our Gal Gadot played her in two films (which were banned by the Arab League). A female character who deserves an honorable place on International Cartoon Women’s Day.
But who would I choose for the first place for International Cartoon Women’s Day? I have no doubt: this is Sheila Broplovsky. No, don’t tell me now that you don’t know who Sheila Broplowski is. This is the Jewish mother of the Jewish boy Kyle in the series “South Park”.
International Fake Women’s Day
I was once invited to a writers’ conference in Europe and there I met a poet from Sweden who forged a feminist poem by a poet he invented, and gained fame for it. In fact, he did not gain fame, but she, the fabricated non-existent one. This is a poet and writer whose books had a certain success. He was even chairman of the Swedish Writers’ Association. But what I liked the most was the fact that his greatest fame came when he forged a book of feminist poetry.
His name is Peter Korman, and in the fall of 1979 he made an unexpected move in a kind of mockery once morest the feminist wave in literature and feminist confessional poetry. Books of this type then arrived in large quantities to the Swedish book publishers, and were published. To test the sensitivity of the publishers, he wrote a collection of feminist struggle poems under the pseudonym Lotte Stromberg, using the most common patterns in the genre: female fraternity, hatred of men and gender conflict, and also a dash of struggle for peace, anti-capitalism, all included.
The poems he sent in the name of Lotte Stromberg were immediately received with enthusiasm, and the publisher announced the wonderful discovery of the great poet. The problem was that there was no such poet. Peter Corman was presented as someone who had a connection with her, so they asked him to help get her for interviews, and when the book was already ready to be published to the stores, pressured him to bring her to a television interview ahead of the book’s publication. He avoided her name, claiming that she was busy, that she was regarding to fly to the United States, and more. In the end, and with no choice, he came to the television interview himself and then, following the publisher praised her poetry, Peter found out In a live broadcast where he himself wrote the songs, there is no such poetess and everything is fake.
I told him how much I liked such satirical exercises. He told me how surprised he was at the speed with which the songs he wrote were accepted for publication, as he said: “With all the most banal clichés I included in the songs left and right without calculation, and with all the most fashionable and predictable emotions I fabricated.”
I remembered this for International Women’s Day. Not only because I like satirical acts, which in my opinion are superior to satirical writing, and receive higher private ratings for me than any satirical TV show, but because these days a new movie called “American Story” is really gaining fame and awards, which tells a very similar story: a black writer in the United States whose books Unappreciated, decides, in order to gain appreciation, to fake a book with all the stereotypes and clichés of the oppression of blacks in America and blah blah blah. And blah blah blah did win all the awards and fame.
Unfortunately, Peter, who also gained fame for a book of poems in the Heart of Bella Bella, passed away three years ago, and I was wondering if I should send a letter of condolence to his address in Sweden also for the death of Lotte Stromberg.
A lesson in understanding the obvious
Here is the difference: if Hamas had killed over a hundred Israelis trying to take groceries from trucks – Hamas would have celebrated.
If over a hundred Palestinians are killed trying to take groceries from trucks – even then Hamas celebrates.
The corner of the puddle
This also happened in a puddle: a front-line soldier, most of whose job it is to postpone or bring forward recruitments for the Malshabi, received a call one day from Fardaeon of the Lisha, who wrote that he was in the Air Force’s emergency room at the Air Force (aerial medical unit), he met a cute princess there, and he Wants the IDF to locate it for him, if it is relevant.
The soldier, who handles the paperwork for the frogmen before enlistment, was neither lazy nor angry. He searched and managed to locate her, and she agreed to give her phone. The next day, the Israel Defense Forces sent the recruitment unit a photo of the two of them on a date. (Thanks to “Soldiers’ Confessions” on Instagram)