thurs., 22 june, 2023: to the new french beard, ii., a.k.a. #TimesUp: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE:  these terms are weaponized language,  &  meant to give offense.  Which is the whole  &  compleat  &   total  & entire  point of insult  &  invective,  obscenity  &  blasphemy,  &  other political speech.]

FRENCH: La Barbe    ‡

    

  ‡)  Lit., “The Beard” = i.e., “TimesUp#Basta!,  Enough already!;  “La Barbe” is also the name of a proto-#TimesUp French Feminist collective started in Spring of 2008  (in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in N.Y.C. for attempted rape & the perceived sexism of the French press's coverage), staging stage guerilla theatre, & appearing during official ceremonies or gatecrashing talkshows & corporate boardrooms, & reading parodies specifically prepared to match the particular occasion while wearing fake beards; even in post-COVID France they are still active.

            

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