"How can Selasi claim to come from Ghana," one such critic asked, "when she's never known the indignities of traveling abroad on a Ghanian passport?"

In the face of indignities and our failure to respect and value this work in our culture, they still show up, and they care.

In a rather funny sequence, we see Bette going through all sorts of indignities (running in unglamorous sweats; climbing on monkey bars; and not at all looking like the actress who played all those feisty Warner Brothers heroines in the 30's and 40's.)

SCORPION'S REVENGE (1997; AKA Sasori In USA) Japanese interior designer (Yohko Saitoh), wrongly sent to an American cooler for the murder of her husband via exploding car, gets a flip through the back catalogue of women-in-prison movie indignities: delousings, showers, beatings, cafeteria catfighting, yard catfighting, a warden who quotes scripture while he brutalizes and rapes the fishies, raging American bull dykes, and an absolutely inhumane LACK OF PANTS!

It shows, realistically, the indignities women suffered to gain their right to vote- one is shocked that the U.S. government would have the audacity to treat political prisoners in such a fashion (but then again, this is Woodrow Wilson, who led some of the U.S.'s greatest civil rights infractions)--especially in a fight that should never have had to happen.

What we’re getting is the details – the personal comments, the texture of diplomats’ lives and those of the people they watch, the horrible toll of war and its daily indignities, the hypocrisies and lies of those in power.

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