Tired Of Being Told Women Are Too Emotional, One Senator Shows What It Looks Like To Get Emotional

[sheshe2]

There are so many gems in this, but you're probably busy, so I'm highlighting the best two minutes of this smackdown. (But realtalk, the whole 15-minute speech is the best part.)

Here are my favorite lines:

1:05 — "You know one way to help the economy is for people to make more money! You know what's one of the best ways to make more money? Pay women for equal pay for equal work!"
6:13 — "You like to hear, 'Oh, you've come a long way.' But I don't think we've come a long way."
6:23 — "Who in this room thinks earning one cent more every five years counts as coming a long way?"
6:48 — "There are men all over this country, right this minute, who are in jobs they hate so that their daughters could have the job they love."
What are yours?

A pretty great two minutes from her speech:

Dem Sen. Barbara Mikulski's Reaction to Paycheck Fairness Act's

The whole shebang in all its glory:

http://www.upworthy.com/tired-of-being-told-women-are-too-emotional-one-senator-shows-what-it-looks-like-to-get-emotional-5?c=mrp1

[spooky3]

1. "The best way not to have a lawsuit is to FOLLOW THE LAW."

Tell it!

[sheshe2]

2. Dem Sen. Barbara Mikulski..

Thanks spooky!

[Wounded Bear]

3. They got nothing...

The whole 'emotional' BS line might have a modicum of applicability if there was incoherent babbling involved. Here you have a great woman Sen who is quite emotional, and completely rational in her comments.

It's Boehner and Co that are always crying and wailing and making no sense as they blubber out RW talking points and go on their 'patriotic' rants.

[brewens]

4. It's really kind of funny that guys can get away with chewing someones ass and women can't.

By funny, I mean that in a wrong way of course.

As a young man I was a warehouse supervisor at a beer distributor and my bosses would give me the list of most recent grievences against the part-time kids we had loading trucks and stuff. Then it was kind of a point to go out their and damn near chew their faces off to get the message across!

It was really kind of funny because I wouldn't really even be pissed but I'd go out there and unload on them knowing my boss and assistant manager were listening. Then I'd go back in the office and they would just be laughing and peeking out to see how scared those guys were, scrambling around and busting ass to make up for it!

A woman doing that? No way! I can imagine what they said about me but what they would have said about a woman yelling at them like that would have been pretty disgusting I'm sure.

Of course at most large companies these days, you don't dare do something like that. It's kind of a shame in a way. Old school knocking some heads together (figuratively speaking of course) used to work quite well. Now I have to be careful about being condescendng of making someone feel "uncomfortable". That might be a "hostile work environment" or some thing like that! Good God! We've fired people at my current job that I honestly believe I could have saved the old way.

[PassingFair]

15. Ah yes, bullying in the workplace. The "good old days".

I get wistful when I think about days where I could legally threaten and intimidate underlings too.

[Warpy]

5. Women didn't make gains in the last 40 years

as much as male wages fell. That's what closed the gap that 18 cents an hour, not employers suddenly deciding to be more fair to their female employees.

Boxer was right on all counts. In addition, women are the breadwinners in too many of these cases, supporting their kids with no help from the man who fathered them and then abandoned his family for one reason or other.

But, hey, getting angry about this entrenched, unfair treatment makes us too "emotional" to bother to listen to.

I propose women stop working and take 15 minute breaks before each hour, giving employers exactly what they pay for.

[DesertDiamond]

6. I'm somehow oddly reminded of the 1980s when I read that a rape victim was deemed not credible...

because she was "too emotional" on the witness stand.

[alp227]

7. We all know those right wingers want to use the B-word on the floor.

But only gangsta rappers get to do that on stage, not members of Congress on the floor. So the Rethugs use loaded terms like "emotional".

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. When will men realize that we are onto them?

Mean and cruel and hatred are emotions, too - and some of those fuckers

are MEAN AS HELL and WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE

so fucking tired of their bullshit.

[freshwest]

9. I'd play video of Cheney to illustrate 'too emotional.' (Warning: Cheney pic)

Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out an obscenity at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy during a testy exchange on the Senate floor.

The incident occurred after Leahy harangued Cheney about profiteering by Halliburton and President Bush's judicial nominees.

According to the Washington Post, the exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice:

"Go f**k yourself."

The Washington Times put it this way:

"Cheney...responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility."

Jay Leno said:

"On the Senate floor, Dick Cheney flipped out and told Senator Pat Leahy to go F-himself. Can you believe that? Aren't these the same guys trying to fine Howard Stern for bad language?"

http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2004/06/25/cheney-to-leahy-go-fk-yourself.htm

And this is from one of the goons claiming the Iraq War was to 'save civilization.' Sorry, we don't want you to 'save' anyone else, Darth. Besides, we've got a special room reserved for you:



Sorry, pubbies, it's DU. We aren't nice to Republicans.

[sheshe2]

13. Thanks for the "warning", freshwest!

I have only had one sip of coffee, but now I am wide awake. Gawd I hate that man.

I like to forget that he ever ran this country into the ground for eight long years. Sadly his crass "F-yourself" was not just meant for Leahy. That's what he was telling all of us for the entire eight years he was in office.

Yup, a big FU back at ya Cheney. We know what you are...



Thanks fresh~

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Thank you for the video, sheshe

[Cha]

11. Senator Barbara Milkulski gets emotional and angry but she knows how to

channel that emotion and anger into something constructive and productive.

Thanks she.. very compelling argument on The Paycheck Fairness Act from Sen Milkulski!

This should totally be a huge issue for the Dems in November~

[sheshe2]

14. Hey Cha!

Senator Barbara Milkulski...it was a righteous rant!

They do indeed need to use this and the success of ACA to run the GOP and Baggers out of office in 2014!

[Cha]

12. And, now a word from our President...

she

[niyad]

16. can always trust barbara to come through for us!