As more and more blocks are being put on women's health and interests, I do not hear the Republican women raising their voices. Who in the world are the misogynists that have been voted in to represent the 18th C in our laws? Click here, and here, and here.
Two high profile Republican women have not uttered a public word when they hear that their sisters have lost the 97% of their medical care Planned Parenthood provided their poorest sisters. Apparently they think they are accepted in the White, big boy network. They will soon understand they are nothing but arm candy, to the Republican men; what Maria Shriver was to Arnold Schwartzenegger...someone to make him look good in public; to make him look like an honest man.
It is as though the Phyllis Schlafly of the is still blocking the progress of women towards finding some equality as marital partners and in the workplace. This woman has been the equivalent of the American Taliban for women. Schlafly campaigned against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The amendment called for men and women to be given equal treatment under the law. Schlafly opposed the ERA because it would require women to serve in combat, and because she believed it would take away legal rights of wives and would negatively influence family life.(from her biography...se link above). She was wrong for women as Ayn Rand was wrong in her economic ideas used by Greenspan for this country.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
IF PROGRESSIVES ARE A THREAT, WHAT DO WE CALL REGRESSIVES?
For many years we have given women some small choices about their body and whether they wish to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. They usually have no less than 18 years to worry about whether their giving their child up for adoption was sending their child to an abusive life or worse.
Our society finally did enough testing to realize that women's brains, while different than men's, are equally intellectually capable and competent. We have much scientific proof of that fact. Women have proven their right to vote, work to support families as a single parents or in two-parent families. Today women have not yet achieved total equality, by any means, but there is a light at the end of that tunnel. They are no longer a man's chattel and can own their own finances and sign contracts.
It may have taken a thousand years to get there but in one single speech, we realize there are still men fighting those changes and, worse, they are strong voices with relatively large audiences are, So many other Regressives like Glenn Beck, Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh, Phyllis Schlafly, and too many others are holding us to the misery it took generations to give up. John Derbyshire of the National Review thinks that canceling all that the Suffragettes achieved and taking away women' right to vote is just a dandy idea. For these backward ideas, read Steve Bene's excellent article here. It makes the notion of rebooting some people's brains quite appealing. A new operating system might be a decided improvement for some of the brains that keep hiccuping in the past and can't move on to the present. Instead of thinking that forward moving ideas like Da Vinci are heretic, perhaps we should view those who would keep so many in bondage and the ruts of the past as heretics?
Just afters I finished writing this, I came across an article adding everything to what I might have said, had I thought to say it. Click here.
Our society finally did enough testing to realize that women's brains, while different than men's, are equally intellectually capable and competent. We have much scientific proof of that fact. Women have proven their right to vote, work to support families as a single parents or in two-parent families. Today women have not yet achieved total equality, by any means, but there is a light at the end of that tunnel. They are no longer a man's chattel and can own their own finances and sign contracts.
It may have taken a thousand years to get there but in one single speech, we realize there are still men fighting those changes and, worse, they are strong voices with relatively large audiences are, So many other Regressives like Glenn Beck, Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh, Phyllis Schlafly, and too many others are holding us to the misery it took generations to give up. John Derbyshire of the National Review thinks that canceling all that the Suffragettes achieved and taking away women' right to vote is just a dandy idea. For these backward ideas, read Steve Bene's excellent article here. It makes the notion of rebooting some people's brains quite appealing. A new operating system might be a decided improvement for some of the brains that keep hiccuping in the past and can't move on to the present. Instead of thinking that forward moving ideas like Da Vinci are heretic, perhaps we should view those who would keep so many in bondage and the ruts of the past as heretics?
Just afters I finished writing this, I came across an article adding everything to what I might have said, had I thought to say it. Click here.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
ONE SIZE FITS ALL: ERROR IN THINKING
Not a lot in life makes me choleric but the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to anything, especially to women, really does. It can be seen in marketing, "What appeals to women?"; "What do women seek in a man?"; "What entertainment appeals to women?" Does it occur to people who do polls that there is no way to get all women to agree to ANYTHING!? If there were, there would have been no Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly single-handedly did more to hold back the feminist movement than many men did. She supported women who wanted to hold onto the traditional role of women being inferior, protected by and submissive to their husbands, those women who had no clue that marriage and adoption are not one and the same. As the feminist movement started, a few abandoned their children in their search to find themselves, while others decried that violation of motherhood. However, the feminist movement continues today, despite Schlafly's misreading of many bright women who could not tolerate being stifled by a world three feet tall for long and a husband who had no idea what it was that upset his wife nor a willingness to hear the explanation. These woman have brought up sons who did listen to them and to the women they later met in school and on dates. Life has changed to the point that men go through the birth of their children with their wives; couples now say "We're pregnant". Most men have modified the chauvinism of the previous generation and marriage has become a partnership, further proving that not all men think the same.
Just as, in Washington, not all Republicans of today, or Democrats, vote the same as the rest of their party. Only the impotent legislature of the GW Bush era went in lock step with a one-size-fits-all vote. Hopefully many of those have now been voted out of office.
While 'what is good for the goose is good for the gander' may work with geese because they can't complain to us, we do know that it cannot be true for humans and those writers who try to make it seem so have just not done their homework properly.
Phyllis Schlafly single-handedly did more to hold back the feminist movement than many men did. She supported women who wanted to hold onto the traditional role of women being inferior, protected by and submissive to their husbands, those women who had no clue that marriage and adoption are not one and the same. As the feminist movement started, a few abandoned their children in their search to find themselves, while others decried that violation of motherhood. However, the feminist movement continues today, despite Schlafly's misreading of many bright women who could not tolerate being stifled by a world three feet tall for long and a husband who had no idea what it was that upset his wife nor a willingness to hear the explanation. These woman have brought up sons who did listen to them and to the women they later met in school and on dates. Life has changed to the point that men go through the birth of their children with their wives; couples now say "We're pregnant". Most men have modified the chauvinism of the previous generation and marriage has become a partnership, further proving that not all men think the same.
Just as, in Washington, not all Republicans of today, or Democrats, vote the same as the rest of their party. Only the impotent legislature of the GW Bush era went in lock step with a one-size-fits-all vote. Hopefully many of those have now been voted out of office.
While 'what is good for the goose is good for the gander' may work with geese because they can't complain to us, we do know that it cannot be true for humans and those writers who try to make it seem so have just not done their homework properly.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SEXISM THRIVING IN THE SEXIST MEDIA
The Women's Media Center has put out a great video and it is wonderful to watch and listen to all the media guys who think they are not sexist, while being flagrantly sexist. One sound bite is Chris Matthews insisting that the reason Hillary Clinton is a Senator is because her husband 'messed around'. That is not only an insult to this woman who is so far brighter and superior to him in every way, but it is an insult to the NY voters who intelligently voted her in, and then voted her in for another term (when her husband wasn't messing around).
One, intellectually challenged, speaking about Hillary, who by now must be post menopausal, spoke of 'besides the PMS and mood swings'.... Male menopause comes when the skull sucks up hair, letting it come through ears, nose, eyebrows, as 'manhood' weakens elsewhere. Someone should remind these men that there is also a male climacteric and they are in it! They may joke about women's mood swings but fail to see themselves as they become crabby, opinionated, grumpy old men and their butt drops off. (I have yet to see a man over 60 who hasn't lost the curve he used to have behind him, below his waist....or has it now moved up to between his shoulders?) These men remind me of the joke in which the mother is telling her daughter that an older man is like a Christmas tree. The daughter looks confused and asks how that can be. Mother replies, "Well, like the Christmas tree, he is dead at the root and has balls only for decoration."
The church began to push women to the side when one of the old priests decided Mary Magdellan was a prostitute. He spread the word and made it stick (sounds like he was a Karl Rove ancestor). Women were eventually pushed out of the church management as neatly as Bush got rid of the Constitution and job description of the President. I recall spending an Easter in Greece and being taken to a church service in which all women stood on one side of the church while all men sat on the other!
Wait until more women unite and the sisterhood becomes less like sibling rivalry. Then we'll see how these peacocks we refer to as 'men in the media' quack and quickly let their tail feathers down. When this voting period is over, we will be as clear about the poor judgment of our acquaintances and neighbors as we became by those who voted for Bush and were unable to see through him during his perpetual motion campaign for eight years in office. So we will recognize all the women who are so insecure and trodden on by being women that they quickly ran to a handsome man who promised hope. Rather than risk voting for someone who might be as weak as they feel themselves, the sheep followed the Shepherd. What a pity that the Phyllis Schlaflys seem to be a majority still....those who cower around men, the Stepford wives of today. Sadly, the plumbing may make men physically stronger in majority but brains trump it all. Hopefully women will some day learn that they really are equal, not just hope that men will come to believe it. They will also learn that equality does not mean Unisex bathrooms but equality of opportunity...equal pay for equal work and proper respect shown for achievement, not ridicule as we have seen shown Hillary Clinton through this campaign. Luckily for us we believe Barack Obama is a good candidate and that the Democratic party has not been ripped asunder as the self-proclaimed pundits would hope to convince us
The Psychology Department published an ambivalency test you can take. Try it if you care or dare.
One, intellectually challenged, speaking about Hillary, who by now must be post menopausal, spoke of 'besides the PMS and mood swings'.... Male menopause comes when the skull sucks up hair, letting it come through ears, nose, eyebrows, as 'manhood' weakens elsewhere. Someone should remind these men that there is also a male climacteric and they are in it! They may joke about women's mood swings but fail to see themselves as they become crabby, opinionated, grumpy old men and their butt drops off. (I have yet to see a man over 60 who hasn't lost the curve he used to have behind him, below his waist....or has it now moved up to between his shoulders?) These men remind me of the joke in which the mother is telling her daughter that an older man is like a Christmas tree. The daughter looks confused and asks how that can be. Mother replies, "Well, like the Christmas tree, he is dead at the root and has balls only for decoration."
The church began to push women to the side when one of the old priests decided Mary Magdellan was a prostitute. He spread the word and made it stick (sounds like he was a Karl Rove ancestor). Women were eventually pushed out of the church management as neatly as Bush got rid of the Constitution and job description of the President. I recall spending an Easter in Greece and being taken to a church service in which all women stood on one side of the church while all men sat on the other!
Wait until more women unite and the sisterhood becomes less like sibling rivalry. Then we'll see how these peacocks we refer to as 'men in the media' quack and quickly let their tail feathers down. When this voting period is over, we will be as clear about the poor judgment of our acquaintances and neighbors as we became by those who voted for Bush and were unable to see through him during his perpetual motion campaign for eight years in office. So we will recognize all the women who are so insecure and trodden on by being women that they quickly ran to a handsome man who promised hope. Rather than risk voting for someone who might be as weak as they feel themselves, the sheep followed the Shepherd. What a pity that the Phyllis Schlaflys seem to be a majority still....those who cower around men, the Stepford wives of today. Sadly, the plumbing may make men physically stronger in majority but brains trump it all. Hopefully women will some day learn that they really are equal, not just hope that men will come to believe it. They will also learn that equality does not mean Unisex bathrooms but equality of opportunity...equal pay for equal work and proper respect shown for achievement, not ridicule as we have seen shown Hillary Clinton through this campaign. Luckily for us we believe Barack Obama is a good candidate and that the Democratic party has not been ripped asunder as the self-proclaimed pundits would hope to convince us
The Psychology Department published an ambivalency test you can take. Try it if you care or dare.
Monday, April 21, 2008
MEN WITH SMALL, JOURNALIST COHONES
Eric Boehlert wrote on Chris Matthews for Media Matters for America. His historic overview validated the feelings many of us have about the man towards whom former admiration has turned to complete dislike and disrespect. When he used to have Mike Barnicle replace him, or as a guest, I thought it was only Barnicle who was misogynistic. However, it is clear that they both are so. Boehlert reminds us that is was Matthews quoted in the Boehlert article: "It's just that the Times politely chose to ignore them. So readers still probably have no idea that Matthews:
Long enough ago that most voters today would not remember, Freud used to describe all women as having 'penis envy'. The poor Victorian man was quite mistaken and feminists wrote that it was not 'penis envy' but 'penis pity', a concept that only resulted in pornography growing in sales with video being easy to market, and later through the Internet, of men getting their jollies by watching women being totally subjugated and demeaned in front of their eyes. It obviously served as sublimation to the shaky sense of masculinity in so many men who feared dealing with women gaining ground in voice and actions.
Domestic violence against women is a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States. There are still cultural factors at work as immigrants from less modern countries arrive here with less advanced views on equality of women.
Behavior therapy introduced a focus on the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness. However, success of women blinds many men to that differentiation. Any woman with a strong voice and action is seen as aggressive, while many men continue under the delusion that women are their chattel, though the law changed that status many decades ago. Remnants of the male struggle to hold onto that position is evident in what the predominantly male law enforcers have ignored for a hundred years here in the United States. The condescension in their notion that women are invited into Heaven by their satisfied husbands is evident in their misogynistic community.
Phyllis Schlafly led an conflicted movement to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment. She wanted women to hold onto their traditional roles and be a stay-at-home-Moms to raise their children. Men seemed to want that as well but the economy became such that many women found it necessary to work outside the home. Men still wanted the status quo and do nothing but go to work, come home to a cooked meal, do no housework, have little responsibility for child care, and the wives, working a full-time job outside the home, do everything else they had always done. For those kind husbands who assisted, it was said they 'helped' their wives with the wife's work. Young couples of today might find that either sad or amusing, since couples have evolved to a much more shared responsibility in their marriage partnership and childrearing.
Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and all the other misogynists who control the airwaves are a dying breed. They will soon find out that the media might still be controlled as the masses don't have the time to spend to search for the truth, but it will reach them through satire, cartoons, comic strips, and comedy. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the writers of South Park, and others are reaching a larger audience than the major 'news' channels and are far more trustworthy and believable because they usually demonstrate with actual video clips, previously aired by traditional media, the lies politicians are telling and later recounting and waffling about.
Hopefully, in a few years these 'journalists' will stop saying they 'love' women just as they might say they' love' their pets.
- featured a Photoshopped image of Clinton sporting "She Devil" horns while discussing Republican efforts to demonize her;
- repeatedly likened Clinton to "Nurse Ratched," the scheming, heartless character from the mental hospital drama One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest;
- described her laugh as a "cackle," suggested she was "anti-male," "witchy," and was on a "short ... leash";
- referred to Clinton as "Madame Defarge" and described male politicians who endorsed Clinton as "castratos in the eunuch chorus";
- compared Clinton to a "strip-teaser," wondered whether she was "a convincing mom," referred to Clinton's "cold eyes" and the "cold look" she supposedly gives people;
- claimed that "some men" say Clinton's voice sounds like "fingernails on a blackboard."
Long enough ago that most voters today would not remember, Freud used to describe all women as having 'penis envy'. The poor Victorian man was quite mistaken and feminists wrote that it was not 'penis envy' but 'penis pity', a concept that only resulted in pornography growing in sales with video being easy to market, and later through the Internet, of men getting their jollies by watching women being totally subjugated and demeaned in front of their eyes. It obviously served as sublimation to the shaky sense of masculinity in so many men who feared dealing with women gaining ground in voice and actions.
Domestic violence against women is a disturbingly common occurrence in the United States. There are still cultural factors at work as immigrants from less modern countries arrive here with less advanced views on equality of women.
Behavior therapy introduced a focus on the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness. However, success of women blinds many men to that differentiation. Any woman with a strong voice and action is seen as aggressive, while many men continue under the delusion that women are their chattel, though the law changed that status many decades ago. Remnants of the male struggle to hold onto that position is evident in what the predominantly male law enforcers have ignored for a hundred years here in the United States. The condescension in their notion that women are invited into Heaven by their satisfied husbands is evident in their misogynistic community.
Phyllis Schlafly led an conflicted movement to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment. She wanted women to hold onto their traditional roles and be a stay-at-home-Moms to raise their children. Men seemed to want that as well but the economy became such that many women found it necessary to work outside the home. Men still wanted the status quo and do nothing but go to work, come home to a cooked meal, do no housework, have little responsibility for child care, and the wives, working a full-time job outside the home, do everything else they had always done. For those kind husbands who assisted, it was said they 'helped' their wives with the wife's work. Young couples of today might find that either sad or amusing, since couples have evolved to a much more shared responsibility in their marriage partnership and childrearing.
Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and all the other misogynists who control the airwaves are a dying breed. They will soon find out that the media might still be controlled as the masses don't have the time to spend to search for the truth, but it will reach them through satire, cartoons, comic strips, and comedy. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the writers of South Park, and others are reaching a larger audience than the major 'news' channels and are far more trustworthy and believable because they usually demonstrate with actual video clips, previously aired by traditional media, the lies politicians are telling and later recounting and waffling about.
Hopefully, in a few years these 'journalists' will stop saying they 'love' women just as they might say they' love' their pets.
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