This post sums up some of the points to ponder re: Sarah Palin and her being chosen as VP by John McCain.
Just because someone is a woman, does not mean that I, as a woman, should vote for her. I vote based on ideas, not on skin color or gender. And if that makes all the difference to you as to what set of genitals someone has or what color someone is, then, really, I have no sympathy for your plight.
Shakesville: Get your Bingo cards ready!
I thought that Wil’s original post was funny. Am I bad feminist for thinking that honestly, there should be somebody telling Sen. Clinton about the law of diminishing returns? I would love to have a woman President in the Oval Office, just not Sen. Clinton.
I want new ideas, not genitalia to determine who I’m voting for.
Pandagon :: Can we keep the sunroof on the glass ceiling open? :: January :: 2008
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So Hillary Clinton is being called a cunt by some in the Republican party. How charming. Because she has no problem with speaking her mind or *gasp* actually TRYING to do something good for the country, she is called a nasty word?
Perhaps in their world, a woman is only good for babies and being pretty. What a shocker that a smart woman is actually ambitious and speaks her mind, not whatever a man told her to say.
I would say grow up and quit being scared, but that won’t happen.
I’ve been thinking really hard on pornography and feminism and how it interacts with my fandom life.
It’s fairly common in the various fandoms I pop in and out of to say porn for the smut fics (mostly slash but with a surprising amount of het and femmeslash, but that may be because of what I fixate on in fandom) to be called porn, but I think the definition is different, since a lot of the fics are really positive about sex and the fun of getting naked with the person you care about, while porn as it is understood in the real world is more about using women to fulfill some man’s fantasy. Of course I won’t touch the rampant girl hate in some of the fandoms (female characters are reviled since they ‘supposedly’ get in the way of the hawt boy on boy sexings, which is stupid. Or else they are all bitches and sluts and nobody likes them, which could say some things about the environments some of the girl writers are growing up in.)
Of course I could turn it around and say that women, which make up a majority of the fanfic writers are just turning that little paradigm on its ear and using men to fulfill their fantasies.
I’ve recently had the idea that porn equals legalized prostitution since they are being paid to have sex, regardless of the fact that they are being videotaped. And frankly that squicks me the fuck out.
Six Years Later, Bin Laden is still out there.
Six Years Later, $450 Billion wasted in Iraq, when our children make do with out dated schools, we drive on unsound bridges and more and more people lose their homes every day. More money was used to find one person, than was used to help an entire geographical area devastated by Katrina.
What has six years brought to us as a nation? Debt, a wasteful war, failing infrastructure, and the mastermind still holed up in a cave somewhere.
Brilliant move, Washington.
Between the idiotic behavior of those in Washington, the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and the idiots at LJ/6A, lots of fodder for musings.
First of all: Washington. The Attorney General is contradicted on sworn statements to Congress. The Vice-President invokes executive privilege then turns around and says that his office is not part of the executive branch. Bwah?
Second of all, the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Our infrastructure in America ie bridges, roads, airports, pipes, utilities and ports are falling apart. Our national parks are in genteel poverty. We’re spending money flexing muscles and getting people killed while at home things are falling apart around our ears.
And finally, LJ/6A’s behavior. WTF? Not even warning for infractions. Summarily deleting accounts including permanent accounts.
I have two posts at The Abbey Annex, my LJ journal with more links.
I’ve been saying this, not as eloquently or not here lately, but yes. Contempt is serious business and quite frankly I am tired of them spending my tax dollars on stupid penis-waggling fights.
Contempt of Congress and maybe impeachment of both Bush and Cheney. Pull out of Iraq. Shut up about Iran. Concentrate on finding Osama and try him in an international court under the Geneva conventions, you know those pesky little rules that Gitmo and Abu Ghraib ignored.
Link to Whedonesque : Comments on 13271 : Let’s Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death.
Also: Equality Now.
Read and think.
I like the inference that the Republicans in power are a bunch of spoiled babies, throwing tantrums, and Harry Reid is the Disciplinarian.
I’ve noticed that the idea that if somebody besides the VTech gunman had a gun, there wouldn’t have been 32 people dead. Even in a productivity blog (Matt’s Idea Blog, and look at the last comment @ 6:16 AM.)
More guns aren’t the solution. I don’t know the solution, but I know that more guns isn’t it.
I agree with Matt: Being aggressive militarily is hurting our children, by taking money away from schools and other needed programs.
Also? Culture of life shouldn’t be confined to outlawing abortions.