Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor thinks that Hillary “ain’t had to work twice as hard just to get accepted”.

Seriously, she’s the better politician, lawyer and wonk, yet her husband was Governor and President long before she even got to start her own political career. And even before she was a politician she spent 8 years being the target of more Republican mud slinging than any first lady in history and still managed to walk out of there without a trace of dirt on her. Pastor Wright, she has worked not just twice as hard but she dealt with being slandered as a murder. Please pull your head out of your ass now, thank you.

But where is the outrage about how Obama is being tolerant of sexism because he has not come out with a strong and harshly worded condemnation of his pastors comments? Where are the news outlets that buzz whenever the word black comes out of the mouth of anyone who has ever met Hillary? I am pretty sure that Hillary could say “I’m not a fan of black coffee” and have it turned into a big ordeal about how “black coffee” is code for black people.

If Ferraro’s comments were so atrocious that Hillary had to condem them and Ferraro had to leave the campaign, shouldn’t Barak’s pastor have to do the same thing? I mean, he basically is saying that Hillary has it easier cause she’s a woman?

I am so incredibly tired of sexism being okay with the general public that I am thinking we should declare women to be our own separate, mixed race so that next time someone says something like “women are bad drivers” we can call the racist and have them shamed in the national media.

I am officially the mother of a teenager. How the fuckity fuck did that happen? Who said he was allowed to get older?

But most importantly- does this make me old? (Cause children’s birthdays are all about the parents, natch) I’m about to have my 30th birthday (for the 4th time) I only kinda feel old. And I kinda feel not old.

From Pandagon:

In contrast, Sweden experimented in 1999 with a radically different approach that many now regard as much more successful: it decriminalized the sale of sex but made it a crime to buy sex. In effect, the policy was to arrest customers, but not the prostitutes.

Some Swedish prostitutes have complained that the policy reduced demand and thus lowered prices, while forcing sex work underground. But the evidence is strong that the new approach reduced trafficking in Sweden, and opinion polls show that Swedes regard the experiment as a considerable success. And the bottom line is that if you want to rape a 13-year-old girl imported from Eastern Europe, you’ll have a much easier time in Amsterdam than in Stockholm.

Emphasis mine.

I love it when I’m right. I mean I’m right fairly often, but when there is evidence to back me up, I’m very happy. You should know that a lot of the time- I’m just pulling shit out of my ass when I rant here. It’s not uninformed shit, but it is just off the top of my head most days.

I just added Blue Lyon and Girl Detective to the blogroll. I feel like I am forgetting someone. Am I forgetting someone? My brain feels stuffed full of fluff. If I forgot you, yell at me in comments.

Your attentions are unwanted.

Yes, I saw you when you pulled into the parking lot of the grocery store and did the creepy look up thing at me. I ignored you. I’m not interested. I am simply waiting for a cab with a cart full of groceries and my child at the end of a long ass day. I am not here for your visual pleasure.

So the cab took a really really long time, as they do in this neighborhood. But finally I see it pulling into the parking lot just as you, Dear Fuckwad, decide that harassing a woman with a child from your car is a good idea. So you flip a uey and CUT MY CAB OFF so you can pull up and “hey baby”-ing me. When I flip you off, you can’t understand why.

So I tell you. I’m not interested. I’m with my kid. AND YOUR BLOCKING MY CAB YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

To which you reply with a “You stuck up white bitch”. You don’t move until the cab driver gets out of his cab to come tell you to fuck off.

Dear Fuckwad, next time I see your stupid black car at the grocery store I’m gonna key it and puncture your tires. That’s how we stuck up white bitchez roll.

Sincerely,
ElizaBITCH

to talk about how race affects things? Actually I think it’s fine to talk about how race impacts people in a negative way, but what if you’re talking about how someone of an oppressed race might be benefiting from it?

What I’m getting at is that I think Ferraro had a point. I think that if Obama were just another white guy, this would be an entirely different campaign. I think that because Obama is black it gives a lot of people (particularly white men) a way of not looking like a privileged asswipe while still maintaining privilege over women. See, they can say they are all progressive and stuff- They’re supporting the Black Guy!

But here’s the thing. For months people (okay, privileged white guys) have been bitching about how Hillary has an edge with women. But we don’t call that sexist when they point it out. Hillary, a woman and therefor also from a traditionally oppressed class gets harangued pretty often for her middle aged lady support (If it weren’t for old ladies- Hillary wouldn’t be in the race kind of stuff).

So why is it racist to point out that being Black is helping Obama, but not sexist to point out that having a vagina is helping Clinton?

This year’s election may be historical for electing the first man to the top job in the government, and some would say the world, should Mr. Obama succeed in winning the Democratic nomination and then the presidency.

Mr. Obama is not the first man to aspire to that office. We cannot forget the disaster that was John Kennedy’s attempt, the first by any man, to be president. He was famously brought down when he uttered the infamous line “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. While I’m sure Mr. Kennedy had meant for his words to be taken as a call to action for the American people, what we saw was another man trying to put off the hard work of a job onto his subordinates. That is what the public saw, and Mr. Kennedy crashed and burned as Ms. Nixon was elected to office.

Today the news shows are buzzing with Gerard Ferraro’s recent comments. Ferraro, you will recall, was Ms. Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 election and the first male on a major ticket since the Kennedy debacle. Mr. Ferraro had said that if Mr. Obama was Ms., his campaign would never have gotten this far. On ABC this morning, he tried to clarify his remarks.

“I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984 if my name was Geraldine Ferraro instead of Gerard Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candidate, it had nothing to do with my qualification.”

The Obama camp has been defending itself from what it calls “sexist” attacks, though to many it looks like the same old victimology that we often see from menenist groups. While Mr. Kennedy was certainly not the first menenist, his campaign is credited with being the start of the “all men are victims” ideology. Mr. Obama seems to be playing that aspect to the hilt. One day he is crying on camera, the next he is whining about fairness.

I’m not a sexist, I just don’t think that Obama is the right man to be the first male president. He is inexperienced and I am not sure that we want someone with that kind of emotional distance to be in charge of the red button. Do we really want a president who won’t think about the children in times of crisis? Do we really want a president who might be too distracted by sports playoffs to handle the business of our country? Mr. Obama has displayed some of the worst traits of his kind, from whining about fairness to being cold and dispassionate as a speaker, and getting tripped up on the meanings of words while claiming all the time that words matter. Do we really want someone with lacking verbal skills to be in charge of diplomacy for us? And let’s not forget his children, who have been left at home in Chicago while he galavants around the country. Can we trust a man who cares so little for his own children to care for all the children of America?

Some say that our dislike of Obama is because of his gender. They have said that those of us who would cross party lines to vote for McCain if Obama wins the nomination are traitors to the Democratic party and mired in misandry.

On this, I am going to have to agree with Charles Allen’s recent editorial in the Washington Post, men are a bit dim. The get obsessive about sports teams and fast engines, and are swooning for Obama like teenage boys at a LadyBugs concert. For Obama, he might do better to stick with the things men are naturally good at, like home maintenance and yard work and he might want to get back to his own kids in Chicago. He just doesn’t have the experience or the temperament to be president. He is not the right woman for the job.

I have a hard time with sex work and porn. The social libertarian in me says people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies, even sell it. But it isn’t that simple.

Sex work and modeling are the only two professions where women consistently make more money than men. And that is where it gets complicated.

I’ve been offered substantial amounts of money to do porn. I have only ever considered doing it when I was broke as hell and wasn’t sure if we were going to lose our home, etc. That is how it works for a lot of women (not all, yes some choose to do it happily and others don’t choose to do it all but are forced into it). In the end, I’ve always turned it down because while I might not leave my day job for a million dollars, porn is one of those things that I wouldn’t do if I had an extra $500, hell even $200. It is a job of desperation. It is physically much riskier than almost any other job. There is disease and violence. There are the mental health issues (most drug addicted prostitutes become that way after- not before they start working). Without the combination of a big payoff AND serious desperation, there is no incentive to do it.

But does that mean prostitution should be illegal?

No.

Right now the majority of people who get arrested for prostitution are prostitutes. Not Johns, not pimps. We have to stop punishing the victims of sex work and it starts by decriminalizing what they do to survive. When prostitution is legal (and not in the Nevada brothel rape houses kind of way, but simply not something you can be arrested for) then the price tends to go down, making it less rewarding for the girls and giving them more incentive to get out. Then we can concentrate on doing things like busting human traffickers.

So all this is on my mind because of the Elliot Spitzer case, of course. He’s not my governor, but had it merely been a case of him getting some action on the side, I don’t think it’s a big deal. But he wanted the woman to do something risky. General consensus is that he wanted to have sex without a condom. For a guy with a wife visiting a prostitute, that’s pretty low down. You’re not just risking yourself, but two other people. One who needs the money from you and may have to put herself in danger to pay rent, the other who is a probably unsuspecting wife. NOT COOL.

But none of this fixes the most basic problem, the reason why the only 2 jobs where women make more money than men are jobs where they sell their bodies. Women are not fuckholes, they are human beings. Until we are treated as human by all of society, then we will continue to be looked at first and foremost as fuckable or not fuckable before anything else about is acknowledged.

He is pretty much the European version of Guliani, but……

I have a massive girl crush on his new wife, Carla Bruni. She’s got the same problems with monotony, I mean monogamy that I do.

After Sarkozy’s very public break up with his ex-wife, who had been cheating on him for years, and with his new wife who would rather be poly, I am starting to think the little man has a wee bit of a cuckold fetish. I can fault him for a lot of things, but that is not one of them.

It is “Hear hear”, not “Here, here”.

The more you know peeps. The more you know.

And I’ll be damned, I’ve heard the Stephin Merritt gum commercial 3 times in the last hour.