Malala yesterday saying why she’s pleased to be going back to school.
It makes me happy to watch it because she looks so all there, so alert and engaged and eager and ready to go. She looks so fundamentally undamaged. Suck it, Taliban.
It makes me very proud that she was brought here given the medical treatment she needed. That she is now able to continue with her education. We aren’t a perfect society by any means, but we’re so much better than the taliban.
I was going to say something further about how she’s lovely and it reminds me of X problem with achieving progress global solutions etc etc, but the comment was eaten. At least partly my stupid fault. Do dee do.
Ophelia Benson is a columnist for Free Inquiry and the co-author of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, Why Truth Matters, and Does God Hate Women?
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Emrysmyrddin
March 20, 2013 at 10:05 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m so proud to have her here. I hope she and her family get permanent resident status.
bram
March 20, 2013 at 11:21 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It makes me very proud that she was brought here given the medical treatment she needed. That she is now able to continue with her education. We aren’t a perfect society by any means, but we’re so much better than the taliban.
Acolyte of Sagan
March 20, 2013 at 11:49 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I see what you did there. Beautiful.
Marie-Thérèse O'Loughlin
March 20, 2013 at 12:04 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OB: I wholeheartedly feel the same way. To think that just five months ago her life was touch and go.
peterh
March 20, 2013 at 12:36 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
She’s well on her way to becoming one of this (fledgling) Century’s most influential people.
great1american1satan
March 20, 2013 at 1:22 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OK, she does have an asymmetrical facial expression, but it didn’t damage her spirit (if you will), and she’s great.
great1american1satan
March 20, 2013 at 6:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I was going to say something further about how she’s lovely and it reminds me of X problem with achieving progress global solutions etc etc, but the comment was eaten. At least partly my stupid fault. Do dee do.
Ophelia Benson
March 20, 2013 at 6:08 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Aw. Sorry.
great1american1satan
March 20, 2013 at 9:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thanks!