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It's International Women's Day. Some women suck. Lots of women are awesome! All women are human beings. Human beings are created equal and deserving of respect. We will fight for all women in a world where the president of the United States does not understand these very basic concepts. Here's what you can do:
- Participate in the strike organized by the group behind the Women's March. You can read more about it in their own words here, but to me, it means being very deliberate and thoughtful about the contributions of women and how they're compensated.
- Wear red in solidarity.
- Abstain from purchases (this is currently killing me as I have precious little caffeine in my house).
- Husbands, sons, brothers, fathers, partners, friends - be intentional and thoughtful about the women in your life. Every day, but especially today. You do bathtime and bedtime tonight. You drive to soccer practice today. Ask questions. Ask how you can help. Ask what you can do. Listen.
- Share stories of female strength and general good vibes.
I went shopping to pick up the slack...
Everyone went to work here; the Queen, Princess (will after school) and me.
We support each other every day, in every way.
That's great, AJ! And as they were on their way out the door, did you say "girls who get pregnant should have to stay pregnant because at least then they won't be able to spread their STDs everywhere" or is that the kind of opinion you prefer to save and post here? You know, like the "Haitians are less than human" kinda thing.
You really are a piece of work.
I like the way you make up quotes out of thin air.
I don't have to say a thing to them about getting pregnant, because I have no need to, nor are they like Liberal women and so disrespected that they feel they have to protest their plight; conservative women have it good because conservative men are respectful of women, even chivalrous. It's not my fault that Liberal women taught their men that chivalry was a form of patronization and part of the oppressive male culture and now they suffer under what they longed for, the right to be treated as a common sex toy and not a special person.
As far as Haiti goes, we do far more for Haiti than every Liberal fuckwad on this board who uses them as a political weapon. We raise money, we send missions and when members of our community go on the missions, we take care of their homes, pets and other affairs. You see, people here, the deplorables, we don't sit around and talk the talk, we actually get out and walk the walk.
But thank you for giving me the opportunity to point out the difference between the two Americas, the continually nasty, outraged and driven to demonstration verses those of us who actually lead fulfilling and pleasant lives full of happiness and accomplishment.
To my knowledge, women receive equal pay to men over here. But australians have good labour unions and professional organizations.
Women aren't given any special preference at work either, nor are they treated more harshly. Australians are very pragmatic and they look mainly at the results.
So I'm amazed that in this day and age in Western countries, people still complain about gender inequality.
There still are of course pockets of misoginy mostly in small places or some rough workers or Police and so on. These are still insufficuently addressed, unfortunately.
Imo, by painting everyone with the victim brush, radical feminists are doing a huge disservice to genuine cases, because they trivialize them and also annoy people risking a backlash.
Because it is who they are.
Their whole mission and purpose in life is to examine everyone else and make their lives better for them. There is never any self examination, because don't you know it, they're perfect and in the proper position to begin the stone casting.
Note the reasonable and polite response to the OP with the total nuclear reply.
This is the face of the American Progressive-Socialist Left.
Now consider this, for the past eight years, we saw no one outraged and protesting over the treatment of women. We saw no outrage and protesting unless it was protesting the police, and we know why. The police represent anyone not on the Left's reservation, which these deeply nuanced thinkers refer to as "Republicans." Anyone who says, I'm a Libertarian or an Independent who does not toe the SocProg line of argument is an an "ashamed Republican." So they went after the police because the police represent the Republican attitude that it is cheaper to just shoot minorities than to engage in the transfer of wealth form the productive to the unproductive in order to oppress them (white privilege).
During the Bush Presidency, these same voices were angry, protesting finding outrage, oppression, racism, misogyny and xenophobia everywhere. During the Obama Administration, they went totally silent (with the exception noted above) because under Obama, the world was all Skittles and unicorns. They didn't care about his wars, black-on-black violence, the economy, nothing; their leader was a perfect human being undeserving of any criticism. In short for eight long years, they played defense for the government.
Then Hillary blew the election. Now they're angry again. Now they are motivated to fight government, injustice and everything that they felt lead to their defeat, except their choice of the symbolic first woman President. We are not talking to coherent, balanced, tolerant and open people. We're talking about the type of people who are so angry at those who have nothing more than a different mindset when it comes to problem solving that when the IRS targeted us, it was good. When the EPA targeted us, it was good. When the FEC targeted us, it was good. If we had been rounded up and sent to camps, it would have been what we deserved...
But let us go back eight years and listen to a voice from beyond the grave:
I bitched about Bush for six years, and through all that time the Republicans on this board never trashed me the way the Democrats do now that "their guy" is "in charge."
They were angry when Bush was President, but they seem even more angry now that Obama is President.
Maybe it's just disappointment.
Maybe, it's who they really are and have been all along.
A_J, the Wiser