Democratic Debate
Alright. I put down my toys for a little while and I watched this thing yesterday. First off, I just want to say how much I loved that crowd in Chicago. They clapped and they booed. You could actually hear people yelling for the speakers to answer the question. That’s exactly what politicians need—an angry mob forcing answers out of them.
First and foremost, Joe Biden is scary. He has the Bush anger going on—he comes off as arrogant and he seems to not like being questioned. That’s a little too much like what we have in office right now, thank you very much. Plus, he totally looks like Emperor Palpatine.
Next comes Chris Dodd. Dude is my grandpa—if my grandpa had kick-ass eyebrows!
Next comes Dennis Kucinich. Look, I spent way too much time wondering how they made suits small enough for this man to wear for the debates—the shirt sleeve came down over his wrist! It was adorable, in a Keebler Elf kind of way.
But then he started yelling and the crowd got a little excited. Guy is so far to the left that . . . well, he’s really to the left. Awesome.
That’s his sexy look.
Now we have Bill Richardson.
Richardson is like Dodd—he says some decent stuff but mostly he gets lost amongst the elves and Sith Lords.
John Edwards says some awesome populist stuff. Honestly, I hate rich people—unless they have BatCaves. Edwards himself is rich so all his populism is a tough pill to swallow. Plus, his wife says some off stuff—something about her husband will never be able to be black or a woman. I assume she was implying that Obama and Clinton have a leg up in the campaign because of their race and gender, respectively.
I’m so glad Elizabeth Edwards lives in a US without racism or misogyny. Please, Mrs. Edwards, where is this mythical land and can we all go to it? Oh, when will the rich white man get a break?
So, that brings us to my favorite candidate—at least he was—Barack Obama.
He’s falling fast in my estimation. Not because of any particular goofs on his part. It’s just that next to Clinton he looks a little naive. More details, Mr. Obama! Though keep the idealism—that’s really nice.
So, here she is. The front-runner and the gal that has moved into my heart—Hillary Clinton.
Granted, some of it is excitment from the very idea of a female president. That won’t last long—I’m very fickle. Just ask my dead hamsters.
No, what really pushes her ahead is the fact that she sounds tough, smart, and diplomatic. Plus, as a woman voter, I really liked her little pink jacket in the last debate.
Ha! Gotcha!
In all seriousness, I’m posting this video just to remind you all that all this garbage we talk about has a direct influence on people’s lives. Quote statistics and number crunch all you want. What it basically comes down to is that right now, there are two Americas. Hard work and doing everything right is not a prescription to get out of the poorer America—the American dream is a bunch of BS handed to us all in elementary school so that we’ll keep quiet and one day, smile when corporations and politicians screw us over.
Stupidity #17
We’re on the Misogyny Train and we aren’t stopping!
Well, until I get bored.
radical feminism has nothing to do with choice, it has everything to do with power.
You know so much, wise one. Teach us more, please.
Lesbians are 2.5 times as likely to be overweight as other women. Does this mean 100% of lesbians are fat?
(40% of women are overweight, and 40 x 2.5 = 100)
Oh, how can that be refuted?!?! Math was used! And we all know that math is hard—Barbie explained that to us all.
You make some excellent points, and I’ll take it a step further and say that I believe Feminists have hurt the family unit. I don’t think you can take the hypocrisy out of it because many of these women are boneheads.
Thank you, lady. I’ll think of you when I vote.
Don’t men have the right to be sexist?
Women what men to treat them equally, but women don’t treat men equally. How many women would stop there car to give a strange man on the street a ride… vs. a strange woman?
A strange woman can rob you or kill you just as easily. But its less likely right? Why is that? Its because men and women are different.. thus should be treated differently.. thats it
I-It’s like a light-bulb had turned on above my head. It all makes sense to me now. Men and women are different so men have a right to be sexist. Eureka! He has solved all of the world’s problems! Oh, happy day!
Misogyny: The World’s Oldest Prejudice
Women could become queens in the sixteenth century, and like Elizabeth I command and inspire fear and respect, but by the beginning of the seventeenth century their status had if anything declined. Contemporary Platoists debated whether or not women had souls.The idea that women could escape what is deemed their biological fate remains for some an affront to what they believe is God or Allah’s grand design and has been fiercely opposed over the centuries.The ability of women to protect themselves, and avoid pregnancy, challenged the biological determination that lies behind so much misogyny. The anxiety that this creates, today as in the seventeenth century, is often disguised in moralizing that such protection makes women even more vunerable to men’s lusts. But it cannot hide the essential fear of women controlling their reproductive fate, thus achieving the autonomy that all misogynists dread.
The rise of science, the advancement of reason, the birth of democratic ideas, and the development of a philosophy centred on the individual, did not however banish misogyny, no more than the intellectual triumphs of the Greeks did 2,000 years earlier. Misogyny, like all prejudices, is often most powerfully felt as a reaction to changes that threaten its underlying assumptions.
Whew! It’s a good thing this book is a history book. That’s all in the past and nothing . . . like that goes . . . on now.
Damn it.
