Yay, Paul!
I'm glad you brought up all of these "scary" topics in your talk. Gah! I hate people just dancing around the obvious and hoping it all goes away.
My minor in college was in Celtic Studies. Let's take a lesson from the Celts on what NOT to do in these sorts of struggles: Way back, when the Romans hit the shores of Britain, the Celtic tribes were warring amongst themselves. Some even went over to the Romans. It seems to have never dawned on them that the Romans were not going to go away and, perhaps, they should work out their differences and resist this new enemy together...Fast forward to Ireland, about 1860's-ish. Same problem. Only this time it's the wealthy textile factory owners who are all fat, dumb and happy as long as they can keep the Catholic and Protestant workers fighting amongst themselves (and organizing into unions). Big Ag, Big Pharma and Big Government are well organized and WELL-FINANCED. We need to get it together. We've got to stop fighting each other. Issues of sexism, etc. are the LEAST of our worries. I think there are far larger, most problematic issues on the table right now. Who do we want to win? The good guys or the bad guys?
