i can haz vote?
It’s Women’s Equality Day! Did you know that? Today commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. I’m afraid it totally snuck up on me this year; I haven’t gotten my Women’s Equality Day cards out or even decorated my Women’s Equality Day tree.
Today is also National Dog Day, which I didn’t even know existed. Interestingly, one intellectually intrepid reporter has considered the conjunction of this holiday with the aforementioned Women’s Equality Day:
You know August 26 is a big day when it combines these two days together: National Dog Day and Women’s Equality Day. Indeed, it is a day for us to celebrate human’s best friends, dogs, and the most beautiful creature on earth, women.
Oooookay. Nice try, but: no. If the above paragraph is any indication, then 38 years of Women’s Equality Day has not had a hell of a lot of effect. The dogs better not get their hopes up.
In other news, today is also Ted Kennedy Is Dead Day. As well as Michael Jackson Is Still Dead And May Have Been Murdered Day. It’s also Bob Dylan Is Making A Christmas Album Day, once again proving that if you live long enough, anything can happen. (Just think what Ted and Michael are missing!) I personally cannot wait to hear Dylan’s interpretation of The Little Drummer Boy.
Today is also Lesbian Monkeys Can Now Have Babies Day. And Chris Brown Is A Disgusting Freakazoid Day. And, like every day, it’s The Media For Some Reason Feels Compelled To Report On What Obama Is Doing Every Goddamn Second Day.
It’s also I’m Still Not Reading The Torture Report Because It Makes Me Sick Day. Just in case you were wondering.
I’m trying to pull myself together enough to write a post about Caster Semenya; in the meantime, consider this an open thread.
81 Responses to “i can haz vote?”
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SYD says:
Perfect day for a Radical Feminazi Stray Yellar Dawg….
Doncha think?
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yttik says:
LOL, Nat’l Dog Day?? Ah gees, the irony is killing me..
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AniEm says:
A Dylan rendition of Little Drummer Boy? Make me laugh.
The world has gone hopelessly surreal.
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SYD says:
What’s wrong with Dylan performing Nixon’s favorite song, pray tell?
Seems perfectly reasonable to me….
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lalala says:
Thank you for mentioning Women’s Equality Day and thank you again for not having an exclusive RIP Saint Ted Kennedy post.
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Nina M. says:
I found a lot to love in the statements of Caster’s family, friends, and other defenders… and the last sentence here is a killer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spor.....ics-gender
However: do not read the comments, the level of stupid is too high. You have been warned.
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Violet says:
Oh, Nina, you won’t care for my post then. I don’t think the Semenya thing has anything to do with racism at all, and in fact the SA officials’ behavior in this (talking to the press about racism and persecution) is one of the most suspicious things. Raises huge red flags for anyone who knows sports and knows that tests like this are understandable. Looks like SA is trying to create a diversion.
It’s since emerged that Semenya’s testosterone test before the race was super-high and SA was asked to withdraw her and refused. Also, her coach is the same guy who dosed “Hormone Heidi” into such masculinity that she eventually decided to transition. So this may explain SA’s defensiveness.
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monchichipox says:
An open thread? Are you sure?
No matter how long I have to wait in line I WILL NOT RING UP MY OWN GROCERIES.
I’m going to have a piece of key lime cheese cake to put myself in a better mood. Suddenly I feel like Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak.
I visited youtube to look at some vintage Hillary speeches. I’d forgotten how pretty she looked in her shocking pink outfit. I also took pride in knowing that no matter what her poll numbers may have been the President never tried to muzzle her or put her in the background.
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janicen says:
Happy Women’s Equality Day! It’s ironic to me because I feel so sad for women today. I think I am alone in being disgusted by all of the praise being heaped upon Ted K. It makes me feel as if we are supposed to set aside the life and death of Mary Jo Kopechne because Ted K did such a bang-up job in the Senate. I don’t care if he personally gave us public education, Medicare, Social Security, the minimum wage and the forty hour work week. He killed left her to die a horrible death to save his own ass.
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janicen says:
Sorry, I meant to say, “…he still left her to die…”.
I’m going to go pour a glass of wine.
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yttik says:
“I’m going to go pour a glass of wine.”
If you get silly enough you can start to see the humor in Mary Jo welcoming Kennedy to the afterlife on Women’s Equality Day. And “Taking a Wrong Turn Down Dyke Road” almost sounds like a good song title.
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SarahG says:
If anyone wants a break from dead dudes in the news, there’s always Fay Weldon:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....d-loo.html
I’ve always thought she was funny as hell.
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Swannie says:
If Bob Dylan were hiding at the bottom of a well ………
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sharon says:
Hey Violet and everyone else,
Did you know even Russia gets the day off for International Women’s Day? Clearly, we are living in the wrong country.
Didja’ catch this post? http://syd4.blogspot.com/2009/.....again.html
The writer notes that suddenly the WAPO and NYT are running pro-Hillary, pro-women stories. Yes, those bastions of sexism during the primaries have apparently seen the light. Though the poster wonders if it’s because of a surge in conservative feminism (wow, that was strange to put in a sentence without opposing the terms) I am wondering if a) the conservatives haven’t gotten on to something, quite powerful or b) the news has gotten the ‘word’ from the top - hey lay off the sexism, guys, it’s hurting ratings or c) some combination of the 2 or a third option I haven’t thought of (but will immediately after posting this, I am sure).
Wondered about your take…
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Aspen says:
@janicen
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purplefinn says:
SarahG, I think this is the funniest line in Weldon’s piece:
‘As long as you have a sort of semi-good looking, able-bodied, intelligent man, you should have his baby,’ she said.
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gxm17 says:
janicen, Aspen is right. You’re not alone. It’s pretty amazing but I’ve managed to follow the “if you have nothing nice to say” rule. Kinda.
I had no idea we could celebrate our equality before we got it. I’m trying to figure out a suitable way to commemorate an ideal we haven’t yet reached.
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Melinda says:
One correction: the monkeys aren’t lesbians. They’re still using egg and sperm. They’re replacing the MtDNA (not DNA) from one mother with the MtDNA from another as a test run for helping women who are afraid of passing down genetic disorders carried on MtDNA. The egg DNA is still the “original” mother’s, which is then fertilized through in vitro with sperm from the father. (MtDNA is the DNA of the mitochondria, the parts that provide energy for the cell and which are passed solely through the mother.)
The article itself is inaccurate, but that’s the state of science journalism these days.
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Ladydawnelle says:
ROFLMAO!!! Ohhhh Man girl you are SOOO cracking me up!!!
ROFLOL @ poor us & the dogs ARGH puma g rrrrr!
Thanks for giving me a jolly good chuckle!
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Gayle says:
From the Daily Male:
“But the trouble is, the battle became too fierce, and the whole culture encouraged women to believe that men are stupid, useless creatures who are the enemy.”
That’s not fair! The women’s movement never made me feel that way about men.
Men made me feel that way about men.
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purplefinn says:
Gayle says: “………….That’s not fair! The women’s movement never made me feel that way about men.
Men made me feel that way about men.”
I think most men are decent people except for their attitudes toward and treatment of women.
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yttik says:
You cannot be a “decent people” if your attitudes and treatment of women suck.
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SarahG says:
I do think there’s a cultural tendency now to portray men as doofuses. Look at any cartoon or sit-com: Dad is a fat idiot, and Mom is in charge (oh yeah–and HOT, let us not forget HOT). And the ads are worse. I find this really obnoxious, because it’s nothing but pandering. The people who make those shows don’t really believe women are smarter, they just want to lull us into complacency, so we’ll do all the work and buy their products. And it seems to be working, damn it.
I like Fay Weldon, though. She cracks me up, and usually gives me something to chew on. Right now I’m thinking about what she said about mating behavior vs. work behavior. Now, my husband happens to make the coffee, but in general, I suspect she’s correct about how we may have to put up with some things at home that we would never, nohow tolerate at work, for the sake of peace and sex. Like picking up socks and cleaning the bathroom. I don’t know, it’s something to think about.
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slythwolf says:
As I said at IBTP, I didn’t find out it was Women’s Equality Day until it was too late; I could have been out in the world being equal all damn day and didn’t know it. Except I couldn’t have, because my knee is messed up and the three flights of stairs down from my apartment are too much to manage right now, and doesn’t it just make a sick kind of sense that that would happen to me on Women’s Equality Day? Waking up with a messed up knee for no discernable goddamn reason and hobbling around the apartment wishing I could get to the grocery store because I’m out of the foods I like to eat, so now I have to eat up the foods I don’t like until I can walk more normally. A nice big “Fuck you!” from the world at large to remind me of the one I get from the patriarchy for daring to think I might deserve to be equal.
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Kristopher says:
Women got the franchise much earlier in Wyoming.
They needed more voters to qualify for statehood … so they doubled the number by allowing women to vote … heh.
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Nadai says:
I think most men are decent people except for their attitudes toward and treatment of women.
Yeah, and shit sandwiches make a great lunch except for the taste and the smell.
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jackyt says:
Re Kenne-dying: I, too, have been hanging on to “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” for dear life.
However! The hyperbole is over the top. If the man was such a lion, and so committed to Medicare for All, and so effective a leader, then HOW COME single-payer medicare for all is not even on the table after his 42 years on the job? -
Violet says:
One correction: the monkeys aren’t lesbians.
It was a joke.
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janicen says:
“I do think there’s a cultural tendency now to portray men as doofuses.”
What I’ve noticed is that commercials tend to show men as doofuses when it comes to housework and family things and the women are much smarter. Like the commercial where the idiot man can’t figure out how the motion sensitive air freshener works and the “smart” woman comes along and shows him. It pisses me off every time I see it.
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purplefinn says:
“I think most men are decent people except for their attitudes toward and treatment of women.”
Guess I should have added that “snark”!
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yttik says:
Snark?? LOL, well y’all fooled me. I was believing in lesbian monkeys and now I’m rather disappointed.
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tinfoil hattie says:
Um, what’s funny about Fay Weldon’s commentary? I’ve missed the joke somewhere.
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Nora says:
I don’t know, based on the linked article, Fay Weldon seems like an idiot to me. I must be missing the joke too.
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Violet says:
I just now went and looked at the Weldon piece too.
I don’t get it either. Is she trying to be funny? Because she just seems to be a flaming twit.
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janicen says:
I just read the Weldon piece. There is nothing funny or ironic or facetious there. It seems to me to be just plain crap.
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Briar says:
Leaving to one side the fact that she has given an interview to the (raging right wing) Mail, I rate this as typical Weldon, and not so much “ironically” (what a multitide of ambivalent collusions that trope covers) sending up the patriarchy as coyly flirting with it. She’s channelling her inner Phyllis Schlafly. Well, no, I am not a fan.
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Melinda says:
Violet, I figured you knew the monkeys weren’t actual lesbians. I thought, considering how poorly the article was written, that you may have been confusing this experiment with the earlier one that allowed fertilization without sperm. My bad.
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Ted Stryker says:
@27: Well, one reason we don’t have it is because newly departed St. Ted was so partisan he just couldn’t stomach letting Nixon(!!?) “win” on this in the 70s. Nope, we don’t have employer mandates and a public option because Ted didn’t want to compromise with Tricky Dick.
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octogalore says:
Violet — re your upcoming Semenya piece, from what you say here, I expect to love it.
My dilemna is that I’m about 1/3 of my way through a post on the topic, but have been a very lazy blogger lately, and upon getting your preview, I’m now tempted to wait a bit and then replace whole paragraphs with See: Violet Socks.
I’ve been sorely disappointed with the so-called feminist commentary on the topic, being familiar with Krieger, the fact that the head of the IAAF is black (and is investigating the leak) as was the second-place winner. The outcome of blurring the lines and allowing runners to self-identify is the preclusion of xx-chromosome women with standard levels of testosterone from elite competition. Is that a feminist goal?
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anna says:
Let us not forget that Kennedy cheated on his wives (he was married twice) and girlfriends regularly, knowing full well that if his “mistresses” were discovered their lives would be ruined but he would be protected from scandal, as a man and a member of the famous Kennedy clan.
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sister of ye says:
Ted Stryker, I suspect Kennedy’s problem was with Nixon personally, not righteous fervor for his cause. Goddess knows he compromised with equal or worse scumbags thru the years, including putting his blessing on NCLB (ro as I call it, No Child Left Unscathed).
Some days your nym makes me giggle because all I can hear is Robert Stack’s hysterically disjointed monologue addressed to that character at the end of Airplane.
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Nora says:
We are definately headed backwards. Has anyone else read this twaddle? And this crap is coming from women. Geez.
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anna says:
Let us not forget that Ted Kennedy cheated on his wives (he was married twice)and girlfriends, taking full advantage of the “boys will be boys” double standard.
By the way, Women’s Equality Day ecards do exist if you’re interested:
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juststoppingby says:
Violet, this post just about covers it. Up is down, it seems.
(My husband and I are pretty fucking disgusted that Chris Brown is appearing on LKL.)
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Violet says:
Octogalore — the Semenya post is coming. You’ll like it.
Sorry for the delay. What a week I’m having! I got over being sick, then Molly had to go back into the vet (which is a giant trip for us), then the blog blew out its bandwidth again. And now I’m dealing with a deep cut on my right index finger that makes typing incredibly painful.
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sister of ye says:
I’m dealing with a deep cut on my right index finger that makes typing incredibly painful.
Ouch! I sympathize. I did something similar a few weeks back, only it was slamming my right middle finger in a door. Not quite as bad as the index finger, but it takes something like that to really realize how much you use the middle finger, and not (just) for flipping people off.
Hope this gives you a chuckle. A few years back one of the attorneys I work for had a kitchen accident that cut her right middle finger very badly. There she is, stitched finger straight in a splint and conspicuously bandaged on a day she had a big court appearance. Needless to say, she had to be very careful about any gestures toward the judge that day!
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SarahG says:
Re: Weldon. Humor is subjective, of course. If you don’t get it, that’s fine…but she’s NOT a twit. Some of us actually became feminists through Fay Weldon, back in the day.
I haven’t read “Life and Loves of a She-Devil” in a very long time. I think this weekend I’ll check it out.
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JLawson says:
Violet -
If you’re blowing out your bandwidth regularly, you might consider shifting your domain over to 1and1.com - I’ve used them for a number of years now, the prices are low, and their ‘home’ package has 1.2 TERABYTES/month bandwidth. (And unless you’re hosting streaming video, it’s hard to imagine how you’re going to get close to that.)
Hope it helps!
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octogalore says:
You folks will probably have caught this post and its egregious last sentence, but just in case:
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Gayle says:
Octo, OMG! That’s so sick and demented I’m actually shocked Huff Po printed it.
Holy crap!
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yttik says:
Wow, from octogalore’s link to the huffnpuff article, regarding Mary Jo’s death:
“Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
Astounding, but that pretty much does sum up how women’s lives are viewed.
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octogalore says:
Gayle, yeah, I am all for free speech, but assuming there are editors who review articles, I am surprised that one got through.
Another thing I was thinking is — if it had been a prominent female politician and a young man who died, would we see articles speculating that the young man might have felt giving up his life was worth it to aid her assent? OK, stupid question.
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Sameol says:
Could that possibly be sarcasm? I certainly wouldn’t put it past HuffPo to publish a sick article about what an honor it would be for Ms. Kopechne to die to help the great champion of women’s rights (ask Anita Hill and Hillary Clinton), but it doesn’t seem to fit with the tenor of the piece IMO.
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Sameol says:
And in the comments, so far at least two are blaming Ms. Kopechne for getting in the car, one speculates on whether she had been drinking as if that’s relevant, and one asserts that Sarah (Original Sin) Palin would have engaged in a massive, evil criminal coverup if she’d been in Ted’s (completely understandable and benign) place. I wish I knew a ‘Proud to be a Democrat’ song to sing at the top of my lungs right now.
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sister of ye says:
Geez, are they still at Sarah Palin? It says a lot about the misogyny in this country that criticism of Palin is of the “omigod Hillary killed Vince Foster” conspiracy variety rather than legitimate critiques and disagreement with her actual stated positions.
But it’s truly sick that they seek to blame Kopeckne for her own death. Especially since it’s just as plausible that Kopeckne didn’t want to get into a car with a drunken Kennedy, but felt pressure to out of fear of losing her position.
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Briar says:
I suppose we could thank Ms Kopeckne for sparing us the presidency of a cowardly, drunken hypocrite of spectularly poor judgment. By the way, despite his championing of the murderous gunmen of the IRA, craven England (I think the Scots have more spine) is currently bowing the knee to this prince of the US establishment, with the BBC filling its schedules with live braodcasts from the funeral, much commentary about “what we owe him” and so on. Kopeckne is mostly ignored, but it always seemed to me that such an able, dedicated and passionate young woman should have been the one with the political career, not the Kennedy playboys.
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Briar says:
Oh, by the way, a nice article here about Weldon’s latest fatuous musings:
Oh for goodness sake, Fay, do put a sock in it
Fay Weldon’s call for women to stop nagging men about picking up their socks is an example of yet another feminist going soft in later life
Barbara Ellen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....n-feminism
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“It has been difficult to take Weldon seriously since she described rape as “not the worst thing that can happen to a woman”. If I recall correctly, at the time, she even supplied a delightful anecdote about some rape-lite fumble she’d once had in the back of a cab, her tone almost being: “Don’t worry, ladies, get your own back at dinner by choosing the lobster.” -
the15th says:
That HuffPo piece read to me like the writer really wanted to remember Kopechne’s life but knew she’d be pilloried for it in Liberal Dude land, so she fell all over herself apologizing for having the bad taste even to mention her and ended up with the mess we see.
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Gayle says:
I thought that post was horribly ageist, Briar. Two older women making stupid remarks does not mean women “surrender” feminism as they age.
She could have gone after Weldon without the generalizations. Actually, I’d rather she hadn’t gone after her at all. I’m really sick of so called feminist writers who can’t muster the courage to go after men so they take out their frustrations on other women. Older women are a particularly easy target.
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Gayle says:
GQ is reprinting a damning article on Kennedy’s drunken years by Micheal Kelly. It’s probably in poor taste to print it now, but it reveals to me how even the more benevolent patriarchs are not allies to women.
I remember when Kennedy was asked to add women as a protected group in his updated hate crime legislation. He refused, muttering something about how “misunderstandings” happen. If you think about his personal history: the behavior outlined in the GQ article, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, it’s not too hard to see why he left women out. He and his friends and relatives could well have been prosecuted under a law he sponsored.
I know Kennedy supported Title 9 like a million years ago. I don’t remember him making any type of grand push for women’s rights in general. He was always conflicted on abortion and said so.
Does anyone here know what he did do for women? Lately?
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Gayle says:
Opps. Here’s the link to the article:
http://men.style.com/gq/featur.....ntent_5585
Sorry it’s not pretty.
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monchichipox says:
Pffft. Ted Kennedy’s been dead to me since January 28, 2008 anyway.
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Nora says:
What monchichipox said.
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slythwolf says:
NCLB (ro as I call it, No Child Left Unscathed)
We call it “No Child Left a Dime” around here.
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the15th says:
GQ is reprinting a damning article on Kennedy’s drunken years by Micheal Kelly.
It’s okay, though, because, as you can read in the NYT, he was saved by the love of a good woman.
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octogalore says:
For fun I clicked through to the Huff Po article author’s “site and found an section amusingly entitled “feminism’s bloody aftermath.”
One of the sections, a seeming accolade to the Ms. Magazine designation of Obama as Super-Feminist, proclaims giddly that “[Obama] does pretty much embody everything a woman could want in a partner” (speak for yourself).
The post goes on to quote an interview Obama did with Marianna Cook of the New Yorker in which he stated that he liked that Michelle Obama was “tall, beautiful, confident” and also “[t]here is a part of her that is vulnerable and young and sometimes frightened, and I think seeing both of those things is what attracted me to her.”
I’m totally digging that. For me, a guy who thought I was beautiful and confident would hardly be Mr. Right unless he also required that I was “vulnerable, young ans sometimes frightened.”
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yttik says:
Oh dear octogalore, that article is enough to make me gag.
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monchichipox says:
I can’t read huffingtonpost without someone holding my hair back while I puke.
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Simon Kenton says:
“I’m totally digging that. For me, a guy who thought I was beautiful and confident would hardly be Mr. Right unless he also required that I was “vulnerable, young ans sometimes frightened.”
– OctogaloreI’m new in these parts, and not that good with nuance in the best of circumstances. I take it this is humor?
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Gayle says:
“It’s okay, though, because, as you can read in the NYT, he was saved by the love of a good woman.”
Yes, the love of a good, (religious) woman. That is all it takes, isn’t it?
And what did she see in him? Maybe “Reggie” was attracted to his young, vulnerable frightened side.
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Violet says:
My finger and I are just going to weigh in here for a moment to say that we’ve been over the Kennedys since sometime in the early 70s, when we learned that all the Kennedy men were philandering asshats.
Yes, I’m sure Ted did some good things. His brothers did too. But the aroma of male entitlement emanating from Hyannis Port is just sooooo overwhelming. Knocks one quite down.
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Unree says:
Gayle, the only thing I can think of that Ted Kennedy did for women besides Title IX was blocking Robert Bork ca. 22 years ago.
Anyone else horrified by the letter he asked Obama to hand-deliver to Pope Rat?http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/29/ted-kennedy-to-pope-benedict-i-am-writing-with-deep-humility/
I’m sure people here know about it but if not: Teddy wrote it a couple of weeks before he died and it sounds as if he fears hellfire. He asks the Pope to pray for him as he grapples with brain cancer. That would be no big deal but then he pleads with Benedict to bear in mind that he supports the privilege of Catholics to resist contraception and abortion at work, and that he has been faithful to the Church’s positions on economic justice. -
Sandra, CA says:
#57 Briar: “an example of yet another feminist going soft in later life”
#59 Gayle: “I thought that post was horribly ageist, Briar. Two older women making stupid remarks does not mean women ’surrender’ feminism as they age.”
Briar didn’t say going soft is a neccessary component of aging. I agree with Briar that it does happen. I’ve seen women who previously were torch bearers saying and writing crap that shows bias against women. It’s HARD to fight against the dominant groupthink for years upon years. Sometimes people just get tired of fighting and give in. Or maybe they never felt that strongly in the first place, so when the cause became unpopular they shifted their allegiance.
Regarding “ageism”–well, people do go through different stages of life, and what seems important at one stage might not seem important at another. Acknowledging the different stages is not ageism.
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Sandra, CA says:
Violet: “Yes, I’m sure Ted did some good things. His brothers did too. But the aroma of male entitlement emanating from Hyannis Port is just sooooo overwhelming.”
Thank you! I needed that whiff of fresh air.
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Monchichipox says:
I know I’m going to hate myself for typing this but I can’t help but wonder. Now that Hillary has outlived both politically, and well other ways now, most of those who turned on her or stabbed her in the back(Kennedy, Edwards, Richardson, etc) well I can’t help but wonder if she feels a little schadenfreude.
I wonder if at the funeral she had to do the fake Sex and the City tears a la Jessica Parker. You know when you just wave your hands in front of your eyes to show how hard you are fighting the tears because well it’s sad but not sad enough to ruin your makeup.
I know I’m projecting myself on Hillary. After all these years in politics I’m sure she’s learned to be a lot more gracious than I. I would have secretly entertained the notion of putting a whoopie cushion under Joan.
I’m crossing my fingers that the next to fall in a scandal will be Secretary(now that I’ve endorsed Obama it signals to women that they don’t have to vote for Hillary) Sibelius.
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octogalore says:
Simon at #69: here’s the roadmap. This is a feminist blog. Therefore, any statement lauding a guy being turned on by a woman being “sometimes frightened” is sarcasm.
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yttik says:
“After all these years in politics I’m sure she’s learned to be a lot more gracious than I.”
I agree Monchichipox. I think about this often, actually. Hillary must have the ability to over look all the negative and keep her eye on the goal. She seems to genuinely believe in her public service. She continues to maintain empathy for those she is serving. Myself, I would have thrown in the towel long ago. Probably in someone’s face.
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Briar says:
Actually Barbara Ellen said Weldon was going soft in later life, not me, and I would tend to disagree, because I have always been slightly dubious about Weldon’s feminism anyway. I don’t think her going soft has anything to do with her age. On the other hand, people do go soft in later life sometimes: there is a patronising stereotype around that assumes left wing beliefs are a part of youth and inexperience and that people “grow up” and turn conservative and sensible as they get older and decide they want to get on. Enough people have sold out (look at New Labour) for this to seem a general truth rather than a circumstantial, personal one. I resist the stereotype myself. I am about to celebrate - and I mean celebrate - my 60th birthday, and my feminism and socialism are more passionate than ever. As a good leftie, I am also passionately anti ageist. Doubtless I shall now graduate to being patronised as a dotty little old lady who should know better.
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Monchichipox says:
And sometimes aging goes the opposite way. I’ve seen it in more people than my father but he is a prime example. When I was growing up anyone different from him had a label. Nigger, bitch, cunt, fag, dyke, spic, etc….. My childhood relationship with him basically centered around fighting him every time he said something like that. Now since he’s retired and has an empty nest he’s turned into the most tolerant person who feeds his grandchildren licorice for supper because they’re just kids after all and you’ll miss these times when you get older no need to yell type of person.
It’s weird.
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Gayle says:
(CNN) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, has taken the first step to run for Ted Kennedy’s empty Senate seat.
Yay!! I was hoping she’d run!!
Happy Dance! Happy Dance!!
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Sandra, CA says:
Gayle: “Yay!! I was hoping she’d run!!”
But does she have a penis?
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