I'm not a hairy Greek
14 February 2012 02:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timpeltjeIf I were a Greek man, I would probably be unemployed and angry at the debts some old people are making me pay back for the rest of my life too. I'd be on the streets, shouting slogans to unite the people to reject the EU/IMF plan that will sell out my whole nation and burden regular people with decades of debt. Maybe I wouldn't set fire to buildings, or show my manboobs to policemen (because that's what I would have as a Greek), but I'd be pissed off too, I'm sure.
I'd also have a very hairy chest if I were a Greek man. Probably even worse, I wouldn't have money to buy a can of shaving cream every day to get rid of all that hair (and, seriously, I'm not butch enough to wax that all off).
A Greek opposition leader called to unilaterally reject the EU, go out of the EU, take over all the country's wealth and spread it evenly and fairly. As the first riots popped up in earlier years, I probably would have agreed to have her or him (I wasn't sure if the name was a boy name or a girl name, hence the sexlessness - I only studied Ancient Greek and her/his name wasn't popular two thousand years ago) institutionalized, because that was the general sentiment our media put up of the Greek protesters.
I just looked at my bare chest and tried to imagine it full of that thick black Greek hair, and also with that olive skin. Still, I guess being a 'bear' in a country that invented man-boy love shouldn't be all that bad. I could be poor and starving as a Greek man, at least my local Erik (who would be called Erikostomopoulos undoubtedly) would be equally hairy, so it would never really be an issue, or maybe he would be too young to have hair on his chest... no, wait, that's probably an illegal thought, because I can imagine babies being born with mustaches there... I'll go for a hairy Erikostomopoulos then.
So the neoliberal machine now seems bent on privatizing all of Greece (Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" at work - after a crisis, the neoliberals come in action to take over a nation), ready to milk its people dry.
And as a proud and hairy Greek, I'd watch over my nation and sing the Greek national anthem that goes something like this: "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, èta, tèta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, ksi, omicron, pi, ro, sigma, tau, ypsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega!" (that's their anthem, right, their alphabet? Yay, I still know it :-)).
I'm glad they can vote in April, I'll be rooting for an "Icelandic" result, regardless of the consequences (it'll come our way anyway).
I'd also have a very hairy chest if I were a Greek man. Probably even worse, I wouldn't have money to buy a can of shaving cream every day to get rid of all that hair (and, seriously, I'm not butch enough to wax that all off).
A Greek opposition leader called to unilaterally reject the EU, go out of the EU, take over all the country's wealth and spread it evenly and fairly. As the first riots popped up in earlier years, I probably would have agreed to have her or him (I wasn't sure if the name was a boy name or a girl name, hence the sexlessness - I only studied Ancient Greek and her/his name wasn't popular two thousand years ago) institutionalized, because that was the general sentiment our media put up of the Greek protesters.
I just looked at my bare chest and tried to imagine it full of that thick black Greek hair, and also with that olive skin. Still, I guess being a 'bear' in a country that invented man-boy love shouldn't be all that bad. I could be poor and starving as a Greek man, at least my local Erik (who would be called Erikostomopoulos undoubtedly) would be equally hairy, so it would never really be an issue, or maybe he would be too young to have hair on his chest... no, wait, that's probably an illegal thought, because I can imagine babies being born with mustaches there... I'll go for a hairy Erikostomopoulos then.
So the neoliberal machine now seems bent on privatizing all of Greece (Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" at work - after a crisis, the neoliberals come in action to take over a nation), ready to milk its people dry.
And as a proud and hairy Greek, I'd watch over my nation and sing the Greek national anthem that goes something like this: "alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, èta, tèta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, ksi, omicron, pi, ro, sigma, tau, ypsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega!" (that's their anthem, right, their alphabet? Yay, I still know it :-)).
I'm glad they can vote in April, I'll be rooting for an "Icelandic" result, regardless of the consequences (it'll come our way anyway).
