Voices| The actions of the 25 old white men in Alabama in the US this week stink of fear. They are dead men walking. The days of living in a world where those who have power do the bidding of warmongers and capitalists are ending, writes Gayle Edmunds
I read that book when I was 18 years old; it was 1990. It was the most terrifying book I had ever read. I still remember the clammy feeling of fear it instilled in me. So when it became a hit TV series 25 years later, I didn’t watch it.
The book should rather be listed as a cautionary tale about what happens when the patriarchy feels that its grip on power – which is exercised through the subjugation and control of women – is slipping. And throughout the world, it is slipping. Not only because they are old and irrelevant, but because their kind will not be making any decisions for any of us for much longer, much less about something as fundamental as the right to a safe abortion under the pretence of protecting lives they wouldn’t save from a terrorist with an assault rifle.
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