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Jan 24·edited Jan 25Liked by Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D.

Sometimes, phenomenal talent leaves us speechless, and we cannot find the right words to illustrate our gratitude and respect for an unprecedented capability of philosopher and writer like you. Your creative critique of the "Nowhere" movie reveals your stirring mastery of evoking the reader's emotions, which is one of the most challenging skills for any writer, and this is also evident in your remarkable book: "Feminism and the Mastery of Women and Childbirth" that I enjoyed reading it a lot. Women's childbirth experiences are undoubtedly labeled in limited and dehumanizing ways, as you stated, not only in Movies and TV shows but also in real life. This dehumanization includes refugee women who encounter induced abortion and stillbirth due to inaccessible healthcare and war's destruction; women who tolerate physical, verbal, and emotional violence during their pregnancy because we normalize gender-based violence; women who undergo traumatic events during labor or childbirth because of Medical malpractice as a result of corrupted healthcare and ineffective education systems that delivered nothing but robotic health professionals; without ethics or passion. All these women didn't get supported by love or enjoy their holy moments with their children before or after birth as "Mia" did. All these women have no voices and can't prosecute the evil power that deprived them of their rights because they are above the law, and because the outdated constitution doesn't guarantee healthcare rights for citizens but guarantees the former president's right to run again after three indictments and facing potential criminal convictions. Women's dehumanization is a derivative of men's destruction, as you quoted for Erich Fromm: "In the act of destruction, a man sets himself above life."

I sincerely appreciate your invaluable wisdom and wish you more success and progress.

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