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This from an interview by Joni Evans on wowowow.com with Gloria Steinem, 75:
wOw: In your wonderful book, Outrageous Acts,
you advocate that we should do something outrageous every day. Your
quote: "Once I began to listen to my own authentic voice—or at least
to realize I had one—I discovered a new answer to my earlier
rhetorical question: How much more rebellious could I get? The answer
was: a lot." Are you still doing outrageous acts? What did you do on
your birthday?
Steinem: ... I’m thinking of having a tattoo for my birthday. I like the art
nouveau-looking ones that I see on women’s backs just below their jeans—it’s rebelliously known as a tramp stamp—but if it hurts, I won’t
do it. My real birthday present to myself is going back to Zambia to
live with elephants for a few days.
I can't decide if I'm more surprised that Steinem is considering getting a tramp stamp or that she doesn't know that tattoos hurt.
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I love Tom Peter's article on the rising number of people getting tattoos in Iraq. So now I'm
keeping my fingers crossed that next season's tattoo drama will be out
of the Middle East - "Baghdad Ink" has such a great ring to it.
It is amazing to think about the fact that there is now a whole
generation of people in Iraq contemplating things like tatoos, tv, and
who to vote for - people who just six years ago lived under a level of
opression and fear that's hard for my independent American mind to even
grasp. That something like being able to get a tattoo makes headlines
is itself a little mind blowing.
And regardless of political opinions about the war, hopefully
stories like this will help people to be able to recognize some of the
incredible change the Iraq war has brought about. Obama did last week
in his speech at Camp Lejeune when he said, "Under tough circumstances, the men and women of the United States
military have served with honor, and succeeded beyond any expectation." Well said, Obama!
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