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October 10, 2009 at 13:44:25     
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There's a Goddess in My Life

Diary Entry by Jennifer Hathaway (about the author)

 

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I'm not a rampant feminist, I've been married, raised kids, worn lipstick and heels, and even deferred to male wisdom in my time. But lately feminist issues have been coming to me, unbidden. Ergo I muse.

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There seems to be a Goddess kind of trend going on in my life lately.

The other day I responded to a couple of guys who were complaining about women-only web stuff they've been dealing with.

I said that women make less money across the board and generally wind up being single mothers to boot, and face rampant discrimination from men in everyday life- and I illustrated the point by talking about some of the issues I've had in my own life.

One of the guys said that I "obviously have issues". I responded by saying that "issues" is shorthand for "you're f'ked up so I'm dismissing your discussion". The other one started going off about how women don't appreciate their gifts and play the victim all the time. I retorted, "stereotype much?" and did my best to bring it back to the topic at hand- but I probably failed. Both of them were trying to have an argument with me- and the only point I really wanted to make was that a lot of women HAVE been discriminated against, and as a result they mistakenly believe that the best way to circumvent that problem is to reverse-discriminate [which I disagree with].

Then today I saw a few things that caused me to revisit that ...um... discussion?

First, Marge Simpson is on the cover of November's Playboy Magazine. Awesome. Not only do I get to "compete" with silicone-enhanced, airbrushed 20 year olds, but now it's gone to a 2D representation of a representation of What Is Sexy. So it's down to a pure symbol. I might as well be measured against Pi.

Second, Rush Limbaugh is to judge the Miss America Pageant. In Vegas. So the biggest lying fat idiot to program the right-wing minds is also going to be the arbiter of womanly talent and beauty according to Traditional [aka Playboy et al] mores.

We're getting into - i . here, the realm of imaginary numbers...

and then Third, Nancy Pelosi is under fire by the Rovebots for turning down General McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan.

The piece goes on a bit about the GOP's sexist rhetoric:

"If Nancy Pelosi's failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place," concluded the release, setting off a barrage of criticism from Democrats and liberal blogs that the GOP was employing sexist rhetoric.

Pelosi herself weighed in Thursday at her weekly press briefing.

"It's really sad they really don't understand how inappropriate that is," Pelosi said. "I'm in my place -- I'm the Speaker of the House, the first woman Speaker of the House, and I'm in my place because the House of Representatives voted me there. But that language is something I haven't heard in decades."

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) went further in her criticism Tuesday, saying the GOP's rhetoric was "not surprising, coming from a party that's 80 percent male and 100 percent white."


What the press [Washington Post] doesn't mention in its article is that McChrystal first presented the report to Gates, a lifelong devotee of the Nixon/Reagan/BushI/BushII/
Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz dynasty. And that dynasty [which was put into place by Prescott Bush in the form of Richard Milhouse Nixon] has a longterm agenda that has nothing to do with the interests of the American people.

The report was made public and farmed by the Rovebots to the press, and they're denigrating the Speaker's decision IN the press, because they really really really want the Gates agenda to move forward- and McChrystal is working for that same agenda.

The Bushites are a corporatist [in every sense of the word] dynasty that put us into Iraq for the sake of its oil interests, put us into Afghanistan for the sake of its TAPI pipelines, and is trying to put us into Iran for the same reason. Their agenda is to get as much money out of this nation as they can and further their own wealth agenda.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then I strongly suggest reading the biographies of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz, and learn which White House administrations they worked in, and which corporations they rotated out to in between times.

The Pelosi story isn't that she's a feminist under fire, it's that she's telling these wannabe elites that they no longer can have our young people as cannon fodder in order to rob the system for their own personal gain.

Interesting that the papers don't cover that end of things. Instead we get "he said/ she said" and the posturing about rhetoric and the competency/ incompetency of personalities. Nothing about the true issue, which is a matter of life or death for both our military people and the Afghanis [and anybody in the way of the TAPI pipeline, I'm sure].

But, as those guys said in that other exchange, I obviously have "issues".

Yep.

Thank you, Goddess.




 

Mother of two adult children, freelance artist with fine works in private collections in 20 US states, 7 European countries, Africa, China, and Japan, concerned citizen of the US.

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Goddess kind of trend? by Don Smith on Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:10:05 PM
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