A certain boy (who did not start out with a website whose main focus is the soft core objectification of women) and who thinks he KNOWS more about misogyny than, oh say, ME has been removed from the blogroll.
Apologies to anyone who may have clicked through to there.
via Shakes,
And BTW, after the whole “morans” picture I would have thought that the anti-immigrant wingnuts would make damn sure that future pictures of racist language purists would at least have signs spelled correctly. Now I am not a grammar or spelling nazi (cause hell, I don’t get paid to blog and people who are paid to write have editors to check that shit) but I am also not bitching that everyone should learn English.
Not so much forces, but you all know my ongoing drama with the power company.
Well after going without power for nearly 2 weeks in January (you all remember hot water bottle babies) Seattle City Light dug up a seven year old bill and attached it to my current bill. It would have been illegal for them to try and collect it in just a few weeks, but since they have attached it to my current bill and told me to pay in 2 days or go (again) without power, they will get their fricken money.
In the meantime, Soopermouse tells me it is illegal to shut off someone’s power in England. And that every weekend in May is a 3 day weekend because of bank holidays.
And gay marriage is legal.
So I proposed.
That is the real threat to hetero marriage in this country- Seattle City Light. Now you know.
For the second Sunday in a row, through my fabulous cooking and awesome powers of persuasion, I have changed the mind of an Obamabot.
And no- I did not fill them up with my own brand of Unity Koolaid. (Though I could totally make it, I go the skills)
No, I simply used the HopeandChangers own words against him. Once my dear female friend heard about “some control” she was done.
Once a younger, male, arms get tingly when I hear Obama speak, student who came over to watch bad sci fi heard me give direct Pony quotes, he has shocked.
When he said he couldn’t vote for Hillary because if he was going to vote for a woman he’s vote for a real woman, I kept my growly anger in check and just flat out said- give me a reason that’s not loaded in sexism and I’ll argue it. She is a real woman. He got it (I did mention he is young- it took him a sec but he got it). And he couldn’t give me a non-sexist reason.
I know our caucus (least democratic thing in the world) is over, but come November I’ve got two new voters.
Well Michelle Obama, should we blame you for your husband’s raging misogyny.
Maybe we should, since you blame Hillary for Bill’s infidelity. Or maybe we should blame you for his loss in PA. It must be because you’re an uppity woman (huhm, it isn’t nice to have someone else’s failings laid on, you is it.)
And should we be surprised that you parrot that same old misogyny line for your hubby’s benefit. Oh Michelle, it’s not cute when Ann Coulter plays sexist exceptionalist. Why would you think you can get away with it?
Or maybe I am tacking the wrong tack here. Maybe, since the press (Hello dimwitted sod from the Nation) likes to blame Hillary for everything that has come out of Bill’s mouth ever, we should blame Obama for everything that comes out of your mouth. Which isn’t really that much of a stretch. While Hillary and Bill do seem to have entirely different opinions on many things, it is clear that in your addled brain your husband’s misogyny is right in line with your own.
You know what they say about people in glass houses. Now that you’ve basically told every woman who ever had a man cheat on her that it was her fault, how long before your dear hubby does the same to you? You’ve just given him the perfect excuse. It’s all your fault.
Shamelessly stolen from Sir Robin because I like it.
1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
Mine is after the jump
From Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People by John Conroy
We kidded around, saying he’d gone off for a haircut and had his hair colored.” At forty-two, Sean McKenna was the oldest of the hooded men. During one of the interrogation sessions he had forgotten the names of his children.
It should be noted that I have quoted this book more than any other in every college paper I ever wrote. Yes, I keep a book on torturers and torture techniques near my desk all the time. But there is a wee bit of hope at the end of the book. There is a small section on the types of personalities that work against torture. They are usually from an outsider group (like Huguenots in Catholic France), the had one morally idealistic parent who held them to strict standards, and they have a sense of adventure.
If you like, either leave your’s in comments or leave me a link to your post.
Sometimes The Nation is full of shit.
You would think that there are only three demographics in this race, white men, old white women, and blacks. Oh wait, there are some younger women too, but they are confused little flowers who can’t pick sexism out for themselves but know it feels icky.
This craptastic piece goes through extraordinary lengths to paint the Clinton campaign as directly racist.
Yet there is no mention of the obviously sexist trope that has come out of Obama’s own mouth.
I think someone drank the Unity Pony koolaid, but wants to still look “fair and balanced”.
It’s not fair and balanced until you talk about how Obama thinks women should only have “some control over their own bodies”, or about how he’s for parental consent laws for abortion, or how he likes to use sexist dog whistles in campaign speeches. You don’t have to tie yourself in knots to see the sexism there. It comes straight from the Unity Pony’s mouth.
Via Lambert at Corrente comes this hour long lecture that is required listening (though if you can just listen and not be riveted in front of the screen you are a stronger woman than I am. I was going to listen to this while I cleaned the kitchen. But the sink is still full of dishes)
Pay attention to the end where she talks about the rainbow. My favorite anthropology professor has been saying forever that the idea of a middle class is false. We are all at the bottom of the heap. But we keep this ideal as a way to separate and elevate ourselves into those that have nothing and those that have little. Humans like their hierarchies.
But we, the poor, are not so different from you. We are just luckless.
She is awesome and you need to know this.
That is all.
Caucuses are not democratic. They are designed to give party insiders the upper hand in choosing candidates. They keep the working class (who cannot afford to spend half a day arguing when work needs to be done) from participating. They keep political neophytes from participating. They are a tool of intimidation and bullying.
And no one knows that better then Obama and his supporters.
Everyday I become more disenchanted with the entire Democratic party. I know it’s politics and politics are dirty. But we are selling out our most basic ideas for political gain, instead of using politics to further those basic ideas.
We are Democrats. We count votes. We count all the votes. Disenfranchisement is a Republican tool. Bullying, intimidation, and election fraud are Republican tools. But we are keeping two large states from having their say in the election and there are repeated calls to end the process when NO WINNER CAN BE CHOSEN TILL THE SUPER DELEGATES DECIDE.
The basic premise of the Democratic party is that everyone, regardless of race or class or sex, counts. What I have seen in this campaign is women being thrown under the bus, the poor and working class thrown under the bus, the old thrown under the bus. That is not the Democratic party.
I have been told repeatedly that by refusing to vote for Obama, I am handing the election to the McSame.
But I am starting to see little difference between the two male candidates. Neither thinks women should have complete control over their own bodies. Both have been known to use misogyny to control women around them. Both pander to the wealthy while ignoring the majority of the country. Neither would guarantee healthcare for everyone. Neither has a solid plan for fixing the economy. Neither gives a rat’s ass about the poor.
Sure, Obama says he’s more anti-war than anyone else, though in his very short Senate career he has yet to prove it.
I have been a member of the Democratic party since forever. I chose this side because I believe in working to make things better for everyone. I do not believe wealth proves people to be more ethical or intelligent, and I do not think poverty is a moral failure of the people who live in it. And I cannot vote for someone who does believe those things, even if he is a Dem.
The Democratic party is about to change. Either it returns to a basic platform of equality and access for everyone, or it will fracture. And I know what side of the break I’ll be on.