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I grabbed this at work, while wondering if I should catalogue it as a children’s book or as a Young Adult. In the end, I figured it me [...]
Cathain (by DmKrispin)
Have you backed this yet? If not, go on looks interesting. (via Hound: A Celtic Myth set in Ancient Ireland by Hugh Welchman — Kickstarter)
It isn’t quite the myth I’m most familiar with, but anything that gets the name of Cuchulainn out there works for me, plus those illustrations are wonderfulWe cannot separate these cases from one another because doing so allows us to ignore the fact that all these crimes have exactly the same cause – violent men, and the silence of non-violent men. We can only move past violence when we recognise how it is enabled, and by attributing it to the mental illness of a singular human being, we ignore its prevalence, it root causes, and the self-examination required to end the cycle. The paradox, of course is that in our current narrow framework of masculinity, self-examination is almost universally discouraged. Since Jill died, I wake up every day and read a quote by Maya Angelou – “history, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
The Danger of the Monster Myth | White Ribbon Campaign
