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October 10, 2009 at 13:44:25 Permalink Promoted to Headline (H4) on 10/10/09: 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. :::::::: "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."
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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:
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/
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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