September 30, 2014

No, as soon as a woman is impregnated, she loses all Constiutional rights in some states.

The GOP will legislate that as such, the child is merely 'Standing His Ground':



Yes, that is a fetus connected to a rifle by the umbiligical cord.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014572446#post16

You bring up a good point. But I'll apply the icon for the rest of my satirical post.

Save for the title of it. That is not satire, but law in dozens of states as detailed here at DU.

September 30, 2014

Yes, but there's no such thing as misogyny. Just feminine 'hysteria.' *wink, wink*

Including a icon, although you don't need one, Blanche.

From the Encyclopedia Britannica:

The topic Misogyny is discussed in the following articles:

Aspects of Fascism

Sexism and Misogyny

by Robert Soucy - 8-25-2014

Under fascist regimes women were urged to perform their traditional gender role as wives and mothers and to bear many children for the nation. Mussolini instituted policies severely restricting women’s access to jobs outside the home (policies that later had to be revised to meet wartime exigencies), and he distributed gold medals to mothers who produced the most children. In Germany the Nazis forbade female party members from giving orders to male members. In a speech in 1937, Charles Vallin, vice president of the French Social Party, equated feminists with insubordinate proletarians: “It is not with class struggle that the social question will be resolved. Yet, it is toward a sort of class struggle, opposing the feminine ‘proletariat’ to the masculine ‘capitalist,’ that feminism is leading us.”

De Jouvenel equated women with hedonism and hedonism with decadence. Europe, he wrote in 1938, had grown soft and feminine from pleasure seeking, becoming “like a woman who had just escaped a frightening accident. (She) needed light, warmth, music.” According to de Jouvenel, an atmosphere of “facility” corrupted everything, and people had become increasingly unwilling to take on painful tasks. In short, he believed the feminization of Europe had been its downfall. In a similar vein, Drieu La Rochelle claimed that educated women undermined his manhood. He characterized political movements he disliked as feminine and those he admired as masculine—fascism, for him, being the most masculine of all.

Varieties of Fascism

Just as Marxists, liberals, and conservatives differed within and between various countries, so too did fascists. In some countries there were rivalries between native fascist movements over personal, tactical, and other differences. Fascist movements also displayed significant differences with respect to their acceptance of racism and particularly anti-Semitism, their identification with Christianity, and their support for Nazi Germany.

More at the link for this entry:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/202210/fascism/219386/Sexism-and-misogyny

Sexism (Sociology)


by Gina Masequesmay - 6-11-2014

The extreme form of Sexist ideology is Misogyny, the hatred of women.

Sexism, prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women and girls. Although its origin is unclear, the term Sexism emerged from the so-called “second-wave” feminism of the 1960s through the ’80s and was most likely modeled on the civil rights movement’s term Racism (prejudice or discrimination based on race). Sexism can be a belief that one sex is superior to or more valuable than another sex. It imposes limits on what men and boys can and should do and what women and girls can and should do. The concept of Sexism was originally formulated to raise consciousness about the oppression of girls and women, although by the early 21st century it had sometimes been expanded to include the oppression of any sex, including men and boys, intersexual people, and transgender people.

Sexism in a society is most commonly applied against women and girls. It functions to maintain Patriarchy, or male domination, through ideological and material practices of individuals, collectives, and institutions that oppress women and girls on the basis of sex or gender. Such oppression usually takes the forms of economic exploitation and social domination. Sexist behaviours, conditions, and attitudes perpetuate stereotypes of social (gender) roles based on one’s biological sex.A common form of socialization that is based in sexist concepts teaches particular narratives about traditional gender roles for males and females. According to such a view, women and men are opposite, with widely different and complementary roles: women are the weaker sex and less capable than men, especially in the realm of logic and rational reasoning. Women are relegated to the domestic realm of nurturance and emotions and, therefore, according to that reasoning, cannot be good leaders in business, politics, and academia. Although women are seen as naturally fit for domestic work and are superb at being caretakers, their roles are devalued or not valued at all when compared with men’s work.

The extreme form of Sexist ideology is Misogyny, the hatred of women. A society in which Misogyny is prevalent has high rates of brutality against women—for example, in the forms of domestic violence, rape, and the commodification of women and their bodies. Where they are seen as property or as second-class citizens, women are often mistreated at the individual as well as the institutional level. For example, a woman who is a victim of rape (the individual or personal level) might be told by a judge and jury (the institutional level) that she was culpable because of the way she was dressed...

More about feminism and the men's movement at the link:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/537055/sexism#ref1202297

Spanish literature: The 14th century


A subgenre vigorously cultivated was the misogynistic treatise warning against women’s wiles. Rooted in works that condemned Eve for the Fall of Man, they include such works as Disciplina clericalis (The Scholar’s Guide), written in the late 11th or early 12th century by Pedro Alfonso (Petrus Alfonsi); El Corbacho, also known as El Arcipreste de...

Not the primary focus of that section on literature, but an example of what we are seeing in America political memes today.

Main link to topics:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/755741/misogyny

Do those who dismiss the voices of women or minorities when they talk from their own view, understand which side they appear to be on, Blanche?

Regarding that first entry on Fascism and Misogyny, and the attempt to force a 'biological destiny' on half the human race, there is a purpose cited here. But beware, it's in the infamous BOG:



Michelle Goldberg cites the revocation of the global gag rule by PBO, his actions to liberate half the human race, and reason behind those who hate - Power:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801

The troll in question in EarlG's OP, the one at the National Review, is part of the group who cannot bear to see their power be diminished. I see the same 'scarlet-letter-waving, brandishing of pitchforks, foaming-at-the-mouth' applied to Obama who does not agree with them.

It is fed by the 1% and infects many people. After all, the ideas that made them wealthy was and is built on the bodies of 'lesser' humans. They have a LOT to lose.

September 30, 2014

Women of America: Your dates are here! Aren't you thrilled?

Let's hear it for celibacy! Or women could adopt this strategy and stand their ground:



For sure the NRA and GOA will support the right of women to bear automatic weapons to defend their sovereignty.

Amirite?

September 30, 2014

Yes, it was glaringly obvious to anyone with more than a 3-minute attention span. Like Fox viewers.

Now the GOP's endangering embassy staff and the president will be in the public record.

All government operations have been stripped bare by the Koch lackeys in D.C. and elsewhere.

In order to generate dissatisfaction and make government seem so inefficient it can all be handed off the privatization, where it will not even get the slightest of oversight.

But the real question is, will anyone remember in November?

September 30, 2014

The cartoon is not offensive in any way, but forgot one thing. Shopping while black:

WARNING, PROFANITY:

Who Is the Wrongest Person in John Crawford's Walmart Shooting?

If you watch the video surveillance footage of black man John Crawford walking the aisles at the Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart, you see a black man, looking black, engaged in the black act of shopping while black. This black man's greatest sin is that he mindlessly picked up a BB gun while black and continued to shop while black at Walmart...

That is a badass looking BB gun. Made in the US of A, like all good guns should be, except for all those cool ones we get from China. Yep, a black man would look awfully scary waving that around and pointing it at children, as 911 caller Ronald Ritchie said Crawford was doing.

Except here's the problem. The video footage of his entire time holding the rifle, from the moment he picked it up to the moment he dropped it after being shot by the cops, he doesn't aim it at anyone. And when the cops enter, not only is no one anywhere near Crawford, but when he is shot, it is from all the way down the aisle. Seriously, not a goddamn person is around him:



...No, the Rude Pundit is gonna go with Ronald Ritchie here as the most utterly wrong motherfucker in this whole situation. A George Zimmerman without the same level of commitment, when he called 911, Ritchie lied to the dispatcher about what he saw, as he later revealed in an interview with the Guardian. "At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody," Ritchie said a month after the incident, which is the opposite of what he said on the 911 call. He told the dispatcher that he thought he saw Crawford loading the gun with bullets, which, as we know, would have more than likely involved pouring tiny metal balls into the magazine. The dispatcher relayed that information to the cops, that a 6-foot tall black man was waving around a gun and pointing it at people at Walmart. Ritchie even lied about the shooting, saying that Crawford swung around and pointed the gun at the police. No, he did not. Ritchie knew he was lying...

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-is-wrongest-person-in-john.html

Article referenced by RP has a video of the scene at the time with Ritchie lying to the police dispatcher, fortunately, not the shooting itself. It is Walmart's surveillance footage synced with Ronald Ritchie’s 911 call to Ohio dispatchers from the time stamp changing on the video.

'It was a crank call': family seeks action against 911 caller in Walmart shooting

Family of John Crawford, man shot dead by police while holding an unloaded BB rifle, say call was a ‘bunch of lies’

The family of a young black man who was killed by police in an Ohio Walmart while holding an unloaded BB rifle and speaking on his cellphone have called for action to be taken against a 911 caller who claimed he was pointing the gun at people.

John Crawford III was shot dead last month by an officer responding to an emergency call made by Ronald Ritchie, a shopper standing 100ft away, who repeatedly stated to the dispatcher that Crawford was pointing the air rifle at customers...

The children who Ritchie appeared to claim were under threat from Crawford were in the store with their mother, Angela Williams. Williams, 37, died of a heart attack in the panic that ensued among customers following the police shooting. “I hope that he’s happy with himself,” her teenage son said of Ritchie in a Facebook post earlier this month.

Ritchie also told several reporters after the shooting that he was an “ex-marine”. The Guardian disclosed last month that he was thrown out after seven weeks in 2008, after being declared a “fraudulent enlistment”. He states that the problem was a mix-up in his paperwork....

More infuriating details at:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/walmart-ohio-shooting-charges-911-calller-john-crawford

And Ronald Ritchie is not in jail for what reason, since he's admitted he was lying? Could it be a case of uh, racism?

Hey, just an anonymous online poster here, not an attorney.

What was done to this dentist is an example of professional in-your-face racism. I don't care what the mealy mouths are going to say to excuse it. That cartoon is very mild, and the way they treated her, her career and the advocacy work she was doing was shameful. I hope she sues the pants off the little lynch mob there. There is more than one way to lynch a person of any standing, using the tried and true method of character assassination.

And John Crawford III is still dead at this time, and she did not go that far. Americans, white Americans, that is, must stop acting like this does not happen anymore.

That's just my opinion, though.

September 30, 2014

Thanks, I just googled and found that:

National Review Writer Hates Lena Dunham and Abortion, Likes Hanging

WARNING, LANGUAGE

The Rude Pundit - 9/29/2014

On the Twitter doohickey yesterday, the Rude Pundit got into the kerfuffle over the efforts of Kevin D. Williamson justifying why he thinks women who have abortions and the doctors who perform them ought to be hanged. Like by a rope. Until dead. Williamson is a random conservative spoogebucket who writes for the National Review (motto: "When abortions are illegal, we will dance on the bloody graves of women&quot ...

What led to Williamson's totally not-joking wish to kill women - sorry, whores who have abortions was a comment on his latest National Review Online blog post, "Five Reasons Why You're Too Dumb to Vote." That was itself a response to an editorial the writer/actress Lena Dunham wrote for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, where, believe it or not, Dunham said that protection of women's reproductive rights is important. Crazy, right? That a Planned Parenthood piece would be concerned with contraception and abortion?

Williamson was absolutely livid that Dunham would dare make a case for voting because "Voting is the most shallow gesture of citizenship there is, the issuance of a demand... imposing nothing in the way of reciprocal responsibility," which is why conservatives are absolutely determined to keep as many people as possible from voting. The fun part is when Williamson attempts to get snarky. Dunham's piece is "a half-assed listicle penned by a half-bright celebrity and published by a gang of abortion profiteers." And "Our national commitment to permanent, asinine, incontinent juvenility, which results in, among other things, a million or so abortions a year, is not entirely unrelated to the cultural debasement that is the only possible explanation for the career of Lena Dunham..."

See, what Williamson and all those who agree with him fear is the empowered woman, not just self-empowered, but government-empowered, the voting woman who has control of her body and demands that those in power protect those rights. Dunham scares Williamson and so he lashes out. Women having the power to determine their reproductive destinies, even with the financial assistance of the government, are so offensive that they must be stopped, even with the threat of death...

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/09/national-review-writer-hates-lena.html

Additional post contemplates turning his writing skills on other things but ends with:

11 Years of Rudeness? Yes, 11 Years of Rudeness

...Fuck contemplation for now. That is a future decision. This is now. And right now there is a midterm election afoot, our newest most importantest election ever in the history of forever, and more conservative taint-punching to be done than ever...

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/09/11-years-of-rudeness-yes-11-years-of.html

Thanks for the heads up.

September 30, 2014

Thank Gawd! TEXAS is an OPEN CARRY state! We need a Women's Defense League!

Using of course:



Well, maybe not...

If I wore a skirt in public and saw, heard or felt a slimy varmint near my nether regions, I'd just have to shoot it.

I've shot rattlers before, and I'd be exercising my right to 'stand my ground.'

I'd plead I didn't know the difference between a questionable specimen of mammalian life and a dangerous reptile, like a rattlesnake:

'Your honor, I didn't have my glasses on and I felt something slimy slithering between my feet. The US Constitution guarantees my rights under the 2nd Amendment to use my gun.

I must defend my right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit happiness' as stated in the Declaration of Independence.

Naturally, I will protect my life and health from a snakebite, and that's what I felt I was threatened by.'

Never know, that defense might work in court there.

Just sayin'

icon if needed.

Also, I never wear skirts.

September 29, 2014

So many deletions and accusations. IDK why a simple OP is trashed. This pegs the:

September 29, 2014

He said a lot more than that. That phrase is just being pushed here. A complete read

of the Salon article, or even the thread itself gives the reason he will likely run as a Democrat, as he said he might on MTP.

I posted on that thread:

Will the Left or Right read this:

Koch brothers... do a very effective job of taking the discontent... and channeling it in exactly the wrong direction.

If media is any guide, 2014 voters will disenfranchise themselves by apathy or a refusal to decide.

'If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.'

Which means the Koch brothers win.

http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/1014833821#post10

Freewill by Rush:

There are those who think
That life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance

A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren't aligned or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill

There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotus Land

All preordained, a prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face, you can pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill

Each of us, a cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill

Just about every defeatist meme is covered in that song.

I contend if Bernie doesn't run in 2016, it will be because of the lack of concern about his issues on the part of voters this year, not 2016. I posted a video of him almost begging people to vote this year.

The crowd didn't want to talk about that, they were hyped up about other things. He said that the people who will be hurt the most are least likely to vote.

There's little time to dally on what we are facing now. He knows this. He also knows the fickleness of many who say they adore him and support what he says, but are too good to show up and vote for the party he caucuses with. He could have gotten more done with more Democrats there.

It's not a popularity contest, or who can woo voters. Trillions of dollars and millions of lives are at stake in this election. Those who can afford to sit out now will find reasons to do the same in 2016, or on any local elections that shape their own lives. Bernie isn't running for state houses, governor, mayor, school boards, election positions or the HoR. That's what composes the fabric of our lives from the ground up.

As far as Sanders is concerned, I truly want him to run as a Democrat and get on that debate stage in the primaries. Tell the American poeple what is going on. But I sensed he is about done from that video.

He has tried, as many others have, to lead the horse to waters, but they won't drink. After a while, he and many others like him are just going to go home and leave the rest of us to what we deserve for not voting. He left the meeting in the video after he couldn't get anyone to care about the election by saying his wife was waiting for him and he had to go.

Why should he bother to go through all fifty states, if we won't vote?

September 28, 2014

Everything about female anatomy is magic to them. Like The Wandering Wombs:

The Wandering Womb : A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs About Woman

Female anatomy, especially the womb, has for centuries been shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding, defining the social place of women in male dominated cultures. Even with advances in medicine, some in today's society believe they can control women's sexual identity.

The Wandering Womb is a provocative tour through religious, medical, and social histories, pinpointing humorous, outrageous, and hair-raising beliefs, practices, and longstanding falsehoods that permeate human cultures. In Egyptian times, it was believed that the womb was an entity unto itself capable of "wandering" in the body, and also into the world beyond in search of nourishment! This idea, and many others were entwined in medical ignorance and religious superstition, which have often labeled women as incomplete, inferior, imperfect, and even inherently evil.

Sexual myths have viewed menstruation as dirty, designing outrageous rituals around this natural process, from strange diets and prescriptions to mandated isolation and violent practices. Sexuality and desire in women has been viewed as taboo and dangerous, while child rearing is considered the highest calling. In Western history, women's health problems were often written off simply as an "unsatisfied uterus," or "hysteria" of their weak and demon possessed bodies, while physical characteristics were used to label women as witches.

This fascinating, often maddening romp through the bedrooms and birthing rooms of time illustrates why women have been sexually "enslaved," and reminds us that we've come a long way from the mythical virgin birth to women's liberation and beyond.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1573922641/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=35012767164&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=13428328478262683615&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4iuijz8lka_b

The first review is also good, but it was written back in 1999. I think the country has regressed to something slighter newer than 3000 B.C. with the GOP take over of school boards and churches.