There’s an Amnesty International office just over from our flat. The other day as I was walking by, I noticed they had a sign posted saying “Make some noise against sexism!”
So as I walked past, I said out loud, “Yop!”
Then I thought, you know, that really does say it all – all the protests against sexism, racism, this-ism, that-ism, that’s really all we’re trying to say: “We are here, we are here, we are here, we are here!”
Yop!
(You can probably tell at least some of my early moral grounding came from Dr. Seuss. I still don’t think that’s a bad thing.)
(And technically speaking, the full message is “We’re here and we’re real people!” But I still think that’s what the Whos meant to say.)
Horton hears a Who! Woot! One of my absolute favorite books of all time. Yop! or is it Walt Whitman’s yawp? You are missed. Big hug. -J