NotHisLady
aimlessly wandering
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History is a perfectly good word, we don't have different one than you.HisStory, what an unbelievable sexist word.
I believe that the bible is truly a book written by men for men.
Passages in the bible were used by plantation owners
to justify
Slavery
(I'm almost finished reading Chesapeake, full of pretty sorry stuff about man's inhumanity to man. It describes a piece of history)
That people have turned slavery into a game I find rather appalling, not the act or the lifestyle, merely the use of the word.
Words have meaning and they run deeper than most people realize--consider a party where there were more than a dozen people as opposed to one where there were less than twenty.
How we say things can color what we think. The words we choose have
power