You’re not alone
The most soothing alpaca picture ever.
Cellocat says, “I have never felt so lonely in my life, so isolated and depressed.” Many of us feel that way. Thousands in fact, perhaps millions. Huge numbers of women, all feeling completely alone and isolated, which means of course…
…that we’re not alone.
Over at The New Agenda, the election seems to have opened the floodgates. We’ve seen a steady upswing in our membership all along (and the group is only 3 months old), but after Tuesday night, the deluge began. We have women writing to us from all over the country, and they’re all saying exactly the same kinds of things we’re saying right here on this blog. There is deep anger out there at the way women have been treated this year, and even deeper anger at the way that treatment has been minimized, dismissed, denied entirely.
Back in January, I remember thinking that whether our next president was Hillary or Obama (and I always knew it would be one of them), right now we would be celebrating a great milestone. What I didn’t expect was the year-long anti-woman spree that lay ahead. I didn’t expect Obama to win by waging a war on women. I didn’t expect that the media and the culture at large (and even the broken feminists who finally succumbed to the siren song of Stockholm Syndrome) would ratify that war on women, embrace it, institutionalize it, so that the triumph of Obama became indissoluble from the degradation of women — all women.
Privately women write to me and say, “Why did he have to win at our expense? Why did he have to win by tearing us down? I would love to be able to celebrate Obama’s election. Why did he have to ruin it?”
And I think again of 40 years ago, of 35 years ago, of the heartsick refugees from the Civil Rights movement and the anti-war movement. “What’s the position of women in SNCC? The position of women in SNCC is prone!” said Stokely Carmichael. Yet women were supposed to accept this, to embrace the revolution as if it were their own. Stowaways on the male voyage of liberation, fantasizing that somehow some of the liberation would eventually rub off on them.
Today, just as 40 years ago, women are expected to celebrate male triumph as if male=human. “Obama’s triumph is everyone’s triumph” say the hopelessly naïve Third Wavers, unaware that this is the same boondoggle women have been handed for decades, centuries, millennia. Men first, then we get to go! they think. We’ll wear our “Sarah Palin is a cunt” t-shirts and the men will reward us!
We know better. And the fatigue we feel is that of the traveler who crests a hill and sees an endless expanse of road stretching to the horizon. Will I ever get there?
But at least we’re not alone. There are many of us standing on this crest, eyes shaded against the sun, tired and wary, daunted by the road ahead.
Let us join hands. Let us not be alone.
52 Responses to “You’re not alone”
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votermom says:
I really appreciate your blog!
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Yanni Znaio says:
And I think again of 40 years ago, of 35 years ago, of the heartsick refugees from the Civil Rights movement and the anti-war movement. “What’s the position of women in SNCC? The position of women in SNCC is prone!” said Stokely Carmichael.
Aaaaah… Now I understand.
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gmanedit says:
“Why did he have to win at our expense?” Otherwise he wouldn’t have won.
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witchy-woo says:
“ Yet women were supposed to accept this, to embrace the revolution as if it were their own. Stowaways on the male voyage of liberation, fantasizing that somehow some of the liberation would eventually rub off on them.”
Yet somehow it never does, does it.
I’m fed up of being a stowaway. I want a revolution that actually liberates women.
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yttik says:
“Let us join hands. Let us not be alone”.
Ahhh, what a beautiful post. So true. I love this blog.
I’m actually not depressed over this election. For the first time in a long time I have real hope and it’s not the Obama kind. I have hope that all the women who are depressed and angry are going to come together and channel that energy. That is the change we have been waiting for. Hell hath no fury… and sisterhood is powerful. If women ever unite and realize their power, it’s all over but the crying, LOL. Those will be tears of joy, by the way.
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Trecy says:
I am so happy I found this blog! I was definitely feeling alone and isolated. Happy to find a group who understand the travesty that has been done to women during this election.
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Foxx says:
Because of this blog and a few others, I do not feel alone. Also, since I realized I am taking a different stand that the friends around me, I actually fell less alone.
So let’s get cracking. What do you all think our priorities should be? My suggestions:
1) A manifesto. A truly radical manifesto demanding complete equality in all respects.
2) The 53% solution (not 30% for heaven’s sake!).
3) Opening blue collar jobs to women.
4) An education program in the public schools, like the one Lisa has described was so effective about race.
5) Confronting religions directly about their misogyny. Demanding that they speak out against sharia law, genital mutilation, etc. etc. And opposing faith-based programs. My tax dollars do not go to my oppressors.
6) Ditto musicians and the media.
Many other possibilities, but that is a good start. This all has to be done in in-your-face ways. No little petitions and letters to the editor. What do others think?
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Kiuku says:
I agree Foxx. The Doctrine of the Revolution needs to be underway.
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ugsome says:
Count me among the heartsick, depressed and crushed. I hate Obama for what he did. It was wholly unnecessary.
How ’bout the Equal Rights Amendment? Anyone remember that??
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Kat says:
Thank god I can come here. I just saw a post from a NYT piece about BO called “Perfecting the Union” or something ridiculous like that. Perfecting the union. Obama made the union perfect. Yoohooooo, you forgot something! The NYT is called the paper of record for the country, and we are invisible to the record.
Thank god I can come here. I’ll just have to come here regularly and gaze at the alpaca to remind myself I’m not alone.
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Phoenix says:
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. … It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Lucy Stone, 1855
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Lisa says:
Yes Foxx, I like the manifesto. We need a few major figures that can get interviews and be invited to talk in the media. We need to present this petition and manifesto directly “in your face” to the Senate. We need it written up in bills and made into laws. We need to DEMAND that WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH actually means something. (btw- isn’t it in August? Does anyone find that curious? It is a month when kids aren’t in school so they won’t be able to study women. HMMMM…) We need to DEMAND that women’s stories be taught in school, and women’s oppression be recognized.
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Kat says:
Violet, I also would like to say:
I love your blog, not only for its content, heart and voice, but also for its low-fi authenticity, alpaca visuals, lack of trendiness, and straightforward comment threads. Your blog feels real, like coming home somewhere warm with soup on the stove, or the sound of a sweet song on vinyl as you nurse a glass of wine.
The people who post here are an awesome testament to what is being built. I checked out New Agenda and bookmarked it.
I hope you’re feeling better today.
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Lisa says:
you know the best thing about this Alpaca picture is that little piece of grass stuck above her eye. sooooo cute.
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Anna Belle says:
Lisa, Women’s History Month is March. August is the anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. I spend my life fighting to get women’s history recognized, and yes, it is a huge part of the equation. I’m a bit confused about how we ended up here. They shove cultural responsibility for child care on us, and require us to generally be the primary care givers to children. Why have we not taken advantage of this? For chrissakes, we’ve been holding the answer at our swollen breasts since the dawn of human time.
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Lisa says:
Thank you Anna Belle. March- well that gives us a chance at least. If we force the issue about Women’s History Month actually being recognized in schools maybe we could make progress there.
I mean look how pathetic this is! I went to a women’s college. We were required to take classes in Feminism and I have forgotten everything I ever learned. I ACTUALLY CARE and even I don’t know what I am talking about half the time!
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Violet says:
Foxx, I love your list. We’re starting one over at The New Agenda too. We need to brainstorm a whole list.
First I need to get my brain functional again.
Kat, I am still miserable today, alas. I hope the feeling better part will start tomorrow.
But — lo-fi? lack of trendiness? vinyl? But, but…I have cassette tapes and everything! I’m with it!
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Kat says:
Your blog feels real, like coming home somewhere warm with soup on the stove, or the sound of a sweet song on vinyl as you nurse a glass of wine.
Violet said: But — lo-fi? lack of trendiness? vinyl? But, but…I have cassette tapes and everything! I’m with it!
And I have the soup on the stove – or rather, the magic tomato marinara pasta sauce which cures all ills, with fresh homemade pasta and bottles of good wine to nourish. Just bring your favorite CDs – sorry, my vinyl machine is resting in peace somewhere in California.
Let’s do it!
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Lhasaluck says:
“I didn’t expect that the media and the culture at large (and even the broken feminists who finally succumbed to the siren song of Stockholm Syndrome) would ratify that war on women, embrace it, institutionalize it, so that the triumph of Obama became indissoluble from the degradation of women — all women.”
I am awakening from the siren song and want to thank you for the wake up call.
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KendallJ says:
Monen’s history month is March, not August.
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aartemesia says:
It has been 90 years since Alice Paul warned her sisters that if women hitched their fate to one of the major political parties, they would be throwing away their power. The original feminist agenda was: universal health care, equal wages for equal work, child care, equal treatment under the law. And exactly how far have we gotten in the last 100 years?
We have no power. We are irrelevant. Whether you are Hillary Clinton (cold, ball cutting bitch) or Sarah Palin (airhead, sexpot bitch) you are still a bitch. If the Democratic Party and the mainline media can gang rape the most powerful women in America and assume there will be total silence while it happens, what chance do we ordinary bitches have?
Give up the Democratic Party. They take us for granted. Forget the Republican Party. They don’t have a clue. If we want power, we have to take it. If the time was ever right for a National Women’s Party, it’s now.
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Tabby Lavalamp says:
So today on a message board I’m a part of, I was told it’s not rampant, unchecked misogyny that got Hillary Clinton defeated and that I should respect that people are basking in Obama’s victory.
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cellocat says:
Thank you, Violet.
It was a bad couple of days, but I am feeling better. You’re right; this is an opportunity for us to join hands, to work together, and to make real changes happen by using heart and mind and sharing strength with each other.
And your pictures have inspired me to find local alpaca farms I can vist in the next few weeks. After all your fantastic pics, I’m really looking forward to seeing alpacas in person. Animals are wonderful.
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Cindy says:
I am so grateful for this website, Violet!
In downtown Austin Texas they hang decorative banners along the main thoroughfare, Congress Ave. This avenue leads straight to the Capitol. The banners change with whatever is being celebrated in Austin at the time. There are NONE that celebrate women, even during March, Women’s History month. But of course, they hang Black History Month banners, which always stay up through May!! Those banners have images of Civil Rights heroes, etc. For years, I approached the people in charge of the banners, asking if for the month of March we could have banners of current and historic women heroes (Ann Richards being one)hanging there as positive public images and as an inspiration for little girls and women.. I got ridiculous run-arounds yearly and it broke my spirit. We’ve now moved to a small Texas town and guess what happened the first March we were here? They had a fantastic and educational Women’s History Month celebration downtown! It was and still is a wonderful event, though small. But it’s just not “cool” enough for the Austin crowd . I still think banners celebrating Women’s History is a great idea, but no one manufactures them that I know of. -
Briar says:
It’s good to know that there are still places that recognise the misogyny which is structual to our societies, or are prepared to admit they see it rather than deny it robotically, anyway. I can’t believe (I can actually) that blacks are supposed to see themselves as empowered by the events of Tuesday. Maybe some black men are, but how come black women are assumed to be included even though they cannot see themselves in the successful candidate? How are they empowered by a black First Lady (a woman of accomplishment and intelligence) choosing to play “mom in chief” for the next four years? (Of course we know why: nothing must taint the manliness of Obama’s manhood.) Why is the empowerment of women, in any community, assumed when their men, not themselves, are the ones emphatically concerned?
And on the other side, Sarah Palin (a working mother, like so many women, who doesn’t let her gender-assigned role limit her) is the subject of ridiculous smears and sneers that female liberals profess to believe absolutely. Well, I was strongly reminded of one of them this morning. A HRW spokeswoman on BBC radio 4, talking about the Congo, said that it was good African leaders were involved, but there needed to be an international effort too. So I suppose we meant to conclude that according to her Africa is a single country and any talk of African leaders is not intended to convey the sense of something international. “What a stupid, ignorant woman!” the policos would cry. Or not, if you are not a raving misogynist and well aware of the fact that, outside Africa, people of all sorts and levels of education are unfortunately prone to talking about Africa as though it were not a continent of many nations. It happens all the time. It may be lazy expression, but it doesn’t mean the speaker is ignorant, or stupid.
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Lisa says:
ooooooh…. a National Women’s Party. Wouldn’t that be something?
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Pat Johnson says:
The picture of the alpaca helped to erase the picture of the young white woman proudly wearing a shirt that displayed the word “cunt” across her chest. That one has been difficult to digest when this “historic” election saw the end of feminism as we once did and replaced it with the savagery that has painted women once again as idiot savants.
The means of “eliminating” white guilt must be done at the expense of women, I want no part of it. We have overcome nothing and have not moved one inch forward and to take any pride in the wanton celebration is an assault on the senses.
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Polly styrene says:
The guardian (supposedly liberal/progressive/leftwing) newspaper had an article yesterday about Michelle Obama’s clothes. Oh and one on ‘All Obama’s women’. Including his wife, sisters, mother, grandmother and daughters.
Because women are merely possessions and accessories of the great man.
This blog is helping to preserve my sanity at the moment….
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qaz says:
Tabby:”…respect that people are basking in Obama’s victory.”
Go back to them and ask them weren’t the Obama supporters ready to riot if Hillary ran? Were they going to celebrate the first woman?
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qaz says:
ran = won
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Lisa says:
Yes! Where was even the slightest acknowledgment for Hillary and women when she was shoved out of the race? Where was that moment when we were “allowed” to celebrate our victory as women and shame everyone else for not celebrating along with us?
We were told at the time to shut up and GET OVER IT. That party unity was the only thing that mattered.
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Ciardha says:
Remember sexism in the abolitionist movement was also the spark of the first wave. At the international abolitionist meeting in England in 1840 female abolitionists were not even allowed to sit on the main floor with the men, much less speak. They were forced to sit in the balconies behind curtains! Lucretia Mott and a young newlywed Elizabeth Cady Stanton discussed this misogyny and decided a women’s movement must be formed- eight years later in Seneca Falls it was. That women’s movement wasn’t only about winning the vote, it was about fighting for women’s equality, some of the grievances in the Declaration of Sentiments have still not been fulfilled- 150 years later!
Stanton and Anthony were branded as “racists” for writing against the passage of the 15th amendment. They didn’t want it to pass because it only gave the vote to black men, no woman of any race were given the vote. Little known fact- Sojourner Truth stood with Stanton and Anthony. She spoke on how if black men were given the vote and no woman was, black women would be subject to triple oppression. Historians conveniently ignore Sojourner Truth’s word to push their agenda that Stanton and Anthony were racist. The truth was that actually the “moderate” wing with Lucy Stone and Carrie Chapman Catt that went along with the “men first” passage of the 15th amendment where actually the racists and classists as well when the push narrowed for the vote. The elitist moderates appealed to racist and classist elite white men to give the vote to upper class white women so to cancel out lower class white male votes and black male votes. They would not let black feminist women like Ida B. Wells into the organizations or march in their parades. They ignored the living conditions of lower class woman of all races. Harriet Stanton Blatch (Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter) and her daughter Nora Blatch Barney worked alongside lower class women and pushed for improvements in living and working conditions and worked closely with black feminist organizations. Blatch and Wells were close friends and often worked together. Blatch chose to join the Socialist party once the vote was won, because, in the 1920′s the Socialist party was the only party working for women’s equality, civil rights, and of course, workers rights- including women workers.
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song says:
Dr. Socks,
we may be continue to be victims or we may decide today to demand the firing of Carl Cameron at Fox News for his reports and demand as well that he reveal his “sources” regarding the smearing of Sarah Palin. This is a simple battle that can be won quite handily.Demand the firing of Carl Cameron at Fox. It will be the first volley across the deck of the patriarchy.
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Phoenix says:
On the eve of President Wilson’s inauguration, Alice Paul organized a “monster demonstration” that brought the woman suffrage cause back into national prominence.
Led by a banner demanding a Constitutional amendment, about eight thousand women started from the Capitol, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue past the White House and ended in a rally at the Daughters of the American Revolution hall.
“On March 3 there arrived in Washington a man who was that day a simple citizen of the United States,” writes Paul’s biographer Inez Haynes Irwin. “The next day he was to become the President of the United States. As Woodrow Wilson drove from the station through the empty streets to his hotel, he asked, ‘Where are the people?’
“The answer was, ‘Over on the Avenue watching the Suffrage Parade’.”
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Alwaysthinking says:
The fact that we are having to renew a fight we thought we had almost won is so beyond disappointing to me that I have no interest in even watching my beloved alma mater’s football game this morning. I don’t even care that they were number one for a few weeks. We lost the most important race last Tuesday.
There is a much more important battle at stake — the fight against misogyny, including the outright dishonesty against women being perpetrated by far too many political and media leaders.
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Kat says:
Media is my place to start, since it became a foundation for every noxious, destructive meme that arose during primary/election time. The lack of dissent, questioning, critical voices in the media — so consolidated and corporate at this point, something progressives USED to oppose — drove all the ugliness home.
I will not turn on the channels or buy the newspapers/mags, and I even avoid hitting the websites if I can view the horrors elsewhere online, without giving propaganda ad revenue.
PS, LOL, I knew someone who was an audiophile and I was always surprised to hear how different music “felt” on vinyl from his old speakers in the basement. It had texture and depth, like you could hear where the piano and the drums were in the room with you. I grew up with cassettes on my little portable blaster. :) Even now, I sometimes think of how I felt the first time I heard that — “ah, that sounds so… real.” I associate that memory with authenticity!
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song says:
Underneath the structures of the Patriarchy, is an inherent imbalance, as well as a “tendency” to perpetuate, and never solve problems, due to its linear relationship with time. So when women were “incorporated” into the model, they were not really as able to self define, because much of the patriarchal model, created by its own design who we might become within its limited defined core. But really, Dr. Socks, the patriarchal model has made it impossible for very few persons, male or female, to truly move into the process of enlightenment, because all arrivals of man made time, have no verbs….Instead, we believe in only the “noun” of point, and not the “verb” of stream.
Herein, is the river of our hopes. So, then we are feminizing, rather than feminists. We are womankinding, rather, than womankind. We are the river, rather than the shore we have sought. And if we choose to flow as one drop of water, it will take forever. If we choose as many drops of water, we will quickly erode the shore. We will in fact, change the shoreline for our daughters, in our lifetime.
However we must, collectively be choosing our waterpath. And we must embrace all women within our river…not define them as “either-or”. This was a great error of our first attempt. We need not make this error again. We as women have the ability to call upon our ancient sacred roots; to recognize ourselves in living time, not in linear time. In an instant we may throw off the bonds, recognizing that we are not, as the patriarchy would tell us, “encased only in a prison of matter”; we live beyond this wretched paradigm. We as women, are the living bells of earth, the cymatics of spirit, the cause beyond cause.We are the dream and not the Everest. We are the journey and not the summit. No election may remove us from our ancient collective meaning. We are the daughters of sacred earth, the prime movers…the mind, the heart, the myriad designs flourishing beneath, a single Passive sun. We know that the patriarchy has sought to vanquish from our collective resonant field —
We are the mindful earth–the solar god, the sun, is our servant. No life lives on a star.We are the Goddess, the sacred she’s, and not the lone sacred ‘he’. Boolean, neither A or B.
The male is passive to our design. We create daughter and son. We are the sacred patterns and not the stark and unforgiving cause. To us, was given by nature, the complete ability to recognize what I have written above. We cannot be vanquished, even while we are forgotten and abused. We as feminine beings—are sacred powerhouses of the manifestations of life, and thus we are as well the powerhouses of the manifestations of the sought, yet never found—mysterium.Though the patriarchy has tried to claim the knowledge of the source of our beingness, we know that plucking the petals has never and will never be the flower. We are the ancient alchemy of life. The guardians at the gate. The only ones who may write in the field of morphic resonance. Until we are recognized the rise and fall of patriarchal structures will be witnessed again and again. There will be no whole physics without us; no unlimited mathematical equations without us; no theories of everything without us. Humankind will live at the whim of the wind until we awaken to our sacred meaning; until we as womankind return as warriors to reclaim our territory; until we insist that we are the bringers of life beyond the quantum territories of this current age. We must resurrect our inner Athenas to reclaim our earth. Out of sympathy we enforced the weaker sex which now enslaves us; out of anger we will tear down the paper artifices of misogyny.
We have the power–No longer kindly bound but fury bound to give our daughters their heritage. To bring balance to our suffering earth, we as womankind must rise now, bringing only our benevolent sons along. We will erase the well worn lines of the left brain world, by challenging as goddesses, all misogyny.
I have said and will say again, that women reflect in the world, the place nature holds in the hearts of men. We need only see a dying planet, to realize how near, mankind has brought us as human beings to the brink of destruction, because the world is out of balance. Our message should be, that this is so, because until we as women are treated as full members of this planet, that the planet itself will ultimately fully decline. No species survives which kills its own members, and denies the collective resonance of its own morphic field.
You inspire me Dr. Socks..!
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Deepthi says:
Hi Dr. Socks,
Forgive me if I sound ignorant, but was Martin Luther King a misogynist ? I actually tried to look for relevant info for 30 mins on google and couldn’t find any.
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slythwolf says:
How long has March been Women’s History Month? I graduated from high school in 2000, and I don’t remember hearing a word about it through my entire school career. March was Reading Month as far as I knew.
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Anna Belle says:
slywolf, since 1981: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womensintro1.html
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julia says:
I was standing under an awning Eugene’s Saturday market today, waiting for rain to let up. A woman I haven’t seen in ages said ‘Hello’ and told me how excited she is.
“About what?” I ask – it’s raining, work is slow, two friends of mine just lost their jobs.
She looks blankly at me “the election!” she says.She starts telling me that there are thousands of his volunteers who are going to change things.
“Doing what?’ I ask
“Teaching people to read!” she answers.
I tell her I know too much about Obama to feel anything at all. I mention the Bailout, the Homegrown Terrorism Act, nuclear energy.“We obviously get our information from different sources” she says.
“Where do you get yours from?”
“From his eyes” she tells me “just look in his eyes”.This is a very intelligent woman who has done a lot of hard work, and is a nurse. What scares me is this new type of patriotism she portrays, the kind that says, ‘What are YOU doing to help?’
as if my critique is detrimental to the Cause.Young, smart patriots.
Goddamn, I’m scared.
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Violet says:
Forgive me if I sound ignorant, but was Martin Luther King a misogynist ? I actually tried to look for relevant info for 30 mins on google and couldn’t find any.
Google “Martin Luther King sexist”
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Alwaysthinking says:
Very scary indeed. Didn’t Bush use the eye technique with Putin?
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Alwaysthinking says:
Song — such lovely uplifting thoughts. How long will it take us to come together, though?
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Branjor says:
The eyes – sort of resonant with the theory that Obama used Ericksonian conversational hypnosis in his speeches.
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Humankind will live at the whim of the wind until we awaken to our sacred meaning; until we as womankind return as warriors to reclaim our territory; until we insist that we are the bringers of life beyond the quantum territories of this current age. We must resurrect our inner Athenas to reclaim our earth. Out of sympathy we enforced the weaker sex which now enslaves us; out of anger we will tear down the paper artifices of misogyny.
Et, repetez vous:
We are the ancient alchemy of life. The guardians at the gate. The only ones who may write in the field of morphic resonance.
Huzzah!
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Sorry – my post is in moderation and I neglected to say that the quote from Song’s wonderful post #37!
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SN14 says:
What a beautiful post. There are indeed many of us out there, holed up and lonely. Blogs like this are a savior to us.
Every time I see Obama’s face, misogyny, homophobia, et. al, run through my head. It’s heavy and sad to have his face all over the news and think about these things all day long. It’s like living in the twilight zone. I’m like, “is this really happening?” I really think we need to develop a women’s political party, founded by PUMAs and any man, woman, or child who has seen this election clearly for what it is. Palin supporters are welcome too.
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Greenconsciousness says:
WOW – this is the best thread ever and that is saying something for Violet’s blog
THANK YOU Ciardha: It is time someone answered the 3rd wave’s women studies slurs against the first wave. Same thing going on now with women trying to warn about the danger to women’s equal rights from unassimilated immigration — the danger from allowing misogynist cultures to exist unassimilated and with many illegals creating an underground which builds to a majority voting block – said underground sheltering trafficked wage and sex slaves. Obama is going to create many such voting block by legalizing the current undergrounds and stopping efforts to curb additional illegal immigration. This is the death of rights for women and BO knows exactly what he is doing.
Unless feminist become unafraid of being called racists and speak out against illegal immigration and FOR feminist foreign policy through the IVAWA the entire progress for women’s rights will disappear. We must help people evolve toward human rights in their own countries where they must work for them — NOT bring people here to change our culture which is secular and grants semi equal opportunity to women.
I like Foxx’s list and I think it should be done (as another poster said) around a second attempt to pass the equal rights amendment. There is a website for the passage of the ERA. The video game is a great idea. And maybe we can finally make use of the “feminist” law professor’s blog to get intelligible explanations of why women’s equality belongs in the US constitution.
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Anna Belle says:
3rd attempt at an ERA, amendment, ftr. Paul wrote that Amendment in the 20s, but it died under the weight of the depression (think about that, and plan around it, folks). 2nd wavers picked it up again and got it almost there. I agree that passage of it would be a powerful symbol for women in America. It could happen. Paul & Burn operated and affected change in an utterly hostile environment. It can happen.
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Greenconsciousness says:
Thanks AnnaBelle(what a nice name) I forgot Alice Paul (I am banging my head on the table) Chalk up another reason for a school curriculum on WH.
The confusion over Aug and March might be because although women’s history month is March (Spring Equinox ) we always marched to celebrate the 19th amendment in August.
August 26th
Women’s Suffrage Day
http://womenshistory.about.com.....26_wed.htmI like how in March is International Women’s Day to remind us we are a global caste and what happens to one anywhere affects us all and Aug 26th reminds us of our domestic issues and our duty to repair our own country’s inadequacies.
We are the planet.
Maybe the New Agenda could take on the Equal Rights Amendment and do all the other stuff in that context – — that could be the core coalition built from all the other specific constituency issues.
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Greenconsciousness says:
Thanks Anna Belle(what a nice name)
I forgot Alice Paul (I am banging my head on the table)
Chalk up another reason for a school curriculum on WH.The confusion over Aug and March might be because although women’s history month is March (Spring Equinox ) we always marched to celebrate the 19th amendment in August. What memories I have – the Mercy High School Girls Band leading 3 thousand women; horns and drums, high stepping, playing “I enjoy being a Girl” which I was dancing to until I remembered the words but I still loved it and laughed all night over the joys of transition.
August 26th
Women’s Suffrage Day
http://womenshistory.about.com.....26_wed.htmI like how in March is International Women’s Day to remind us we are a global caste and what happens to one anywhere affects us all and Aug 26th reminds us of our domestic issues and our duty to repair our own country’s inadequacies.
We are the planet.
Maybe the New Agenda could take on the Equal Rights Amendment and do all the other stuff in that context – — that could be the core coalition built from all the other specific constituency issues.
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