"Omari" by Mr. Banana Hammock (not Omari)

Not Omari does Omari doing Omari. Confused yet?

Roughly translated, schadenfraude means "taking joy in another's misery.” Lately this seems to be the one of the only ways I am able to enjoy myself. Yesterday morning I was commuting to work on the red line and some foreign tourist leans his head out the door and starts shouting something in some foreign language to a friend who was still on the platform. As the doors are closing. For all of us who have seem some idiot stick his briefcase in the door and the door not open after it has closed on the briefcase, well you get the picture. Made my morning. Thanks foreign tourist guy! Reading Omari’s blog also gave me some joy as well.

The Germans have great descriptive words like that. Another one, Weltschmertz, roughly translates as “world pain” or sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; basically sentimental pessimism. It’s hard to feel like that when you have air conditioning. At Omari’s suggestion, last night I was trying to “giv[e] it some love while it [was] hard at work, keeping [me] nice and cool.” Or at least I tried. Failing, I figured that self-love was a more “workable” option.

Interestingly, Omari happened along my blog the other day. He encouraged me to peruse his blog which I did. In one post in particular he ponders the grey area of rape and posits the question of whether or not it is rape if a person in power in a corporation abuses said power by having intercourse with a low-ranking employee. I could not figure out if it was a philosophical meandering or he was searching for legal advice.

Feminist Andrea Dworkin was once attributed erroneously as saying that "all sex is rape" or "all men are rapists." What she really said was that "penetrative intercourse is, by its nature, violent.” However, the Maoist International Movement does indeed equate all sex with rape, owing largely to the language of rape law in imperialist countries and the very definition of “consent” which is described in such a way that is "usual" with "bourgeois" law that “the rulers write and interpret the law in such a way as to be able to catch almost anyone.”

So, any imperialist bourgeois ladies care to get violent with me?



He gets letters:

"I am not interested in getting violent with you as I'm already in a relationship (not a violent one.) Regardless your posts are interesting, if too disconnected for me. The German language thread you had going was snipped rather quickly, and I wanted more of that. Pretty sure that the mere mention of rape is going to thwart your Craigslist advances, regardless of your commentary on the subject. If you are actually trying to find one; I've no idea."