Misogyny in the Media

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What does it take to get three members of the media to agree with each other, including right winger Blanquita Collum?

Just make sure they are all women. And they are all talking about the misogyny of this campaign.


Now in googling around to get more information on Collum, here’s an example of what I found:

I hope you don’t confuse me with Gloria Allred, that B – I – Etch or Nia Vardalos (throat choking sound) or Blanquita Collum (you know, the right-wing one with the car-wreck face you see on Geraldo).

From the always lovely Arrianna Huffington (sorry, I just threw up a little in my mouth typing that)

Then over at Democratic Underground, the comments on this very video included:

Blanquita Clollum, apparent graduate of the Katherine Harris School of Cosmotology

And then this one, bolds by me for future bingo squares

Hillary has played into this sexism fantasy! She has used it against any an all males to get what she wants. Is there male chauvinism pigs out there, you bet there is. She knew this when she ran. Barack Obama is dealing with racism. It’s the world we live in. She needs to go away. If she just stop lying, people will give her the benefit of the doubt. She also too DAM calculating! I’m sorry, people don’t like her, including women. That’s her fault, and not men. She need to stop blaming everyone for her own deficiencies. She has hurt woman causes for years to come. I have no problem having a women as President, just not this one.

But nooooooooooooo, sexism hasn’t hurt Hillary in this campaign. It hasn’t also hurt Every. Single. Other. Woman. In. The. Country. Whether they support Hillary or not. Whether they are feminists or not. Whether they are Dems or Reps. or something else.

Just not this woman really means just not any woman who might change the status quo. And any woman can change the status quo.

Video via Hillary 1000

Riddle me this peeps

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Say you are an unexperienced politician with the audacity to run for president after a mere 3.5 years of national experience.

Say that as part of your campaign strategy you spend of 5 or 6 months straight ignoring all the successes of the only Democratic president to be elected in 28 years.

You also spend a lot of time calling him a racist.

And you spend the rest of your time spurring your misogynistic sycophants towards his wife and your fiercest competition.

How then could you ask the same former president to be your Unity Pony?

What do you think the former president would do, after spitting out his coffee through his nose while laughing at the request?

Sunday Night Music

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To both lighten the mood and to get myself de-earwormed after OuyangDan posted the Fine Young Cannibals at her place.

It’s time for They Might Be Giants! W00t.

When I was pregnant with the monkey, I promised that I would never play those crap kid’s music tapes, he could listen to They Might Be Giants instead (a few years later TMBG came out with an album for kids)

Birdhouse in Your Soul (I won tickets to see TMBG at a little club in Atlanta because I shamelessly sang this song on the radio)

Why Does the Sun Shine (The Kid’s fav TMBG song set to scenes from Invader Zim- I want a Grrrr)

And last but not least Don’t Start- just cause I like it)

On Blog Stalkers

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So just about anyone who is listed in either my blog roll or my I am Hillary links has been visited by our resident stalker troll- Matthew. (I’ve got a ton of new peeps to add to the blogroll, now I am glad that in my laziness I haven’t yet)

He has been banned (many many times, he changes IP addys so it doesn’t stick, edited, and deleted more times than you can shake a stick at. I warned him that if he continued stalking me I would call the police. I am doing that. I am also filing a complaint with google over copyright infringement as he is using both my name and header image in a derogatory way, contrary to my creative commons license.

But you, my darling friends can do one more thing. Please flag the fake elizabitchez (elizabitch-ez.blogspot.com) blog for me. Then, if you’re really nice, you’ll delete his comments and ignore him.

And just to brush up- this kind of cyberstalking is a tool of male privilege. I would expect that even my Obama supporting male friends would not condone such behavior.

Thanks.

My feelings on Obama summed up in one perfect sentence

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Periodically, when I’m feeling down, the claws come out because a bitter man has decided that I only deserve some control over my own body.

And in the new tradition of Corrente’s Obama Golf game: OMG- God and guns, I must of course be making a veiled assassination threat.

But wait- since Obama said it first, where’s the outrage that what he was doing was calling for someone to assassinate Hillary?

(BTW- has anyone else noticed that the dimwits who are claiming Hillary was making assassination threats also aren’t posting the readily available video of what she actually said? You might notice that whenever possible I include links to the actual quotes. I think Obama’s words speak for themselves. But then I have a leg to stand on, the Blogger Boyz and News Bunnies who cried “Assassination threat” do not )

Mama wants vigilante justice

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So for the 4th- fourth fucking time- the Kid got mugged. But this time they pinned him, beat him and stole his phone.

Last time I was forgiving- this time I want fucking blood. I want a gun. I want to kill the assholes who would hurt a 13 year old boy. And I want the police to get off their collective asses and do something.

The entire left side of the Kid’s face is gonna swell up. He took their punches, got in one of his own. He got free and he got home. He shouldn’t have to keep dealing with this shit. He won’t let me take him to the emergency room, though I think I should. I’m gonna give him an hour to collect himself.

I used to love my neighborhood. At the moment I would firebomb the whole thing and start clean.

When in doubt- check the primary source

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My favorite History Proff never assigned a text book. He wanted us to look at primary sources of where history comes from instead. I learned a lot of stuff in his classes, which he started at the beginning of the quarter by showing the movie Roshomon. The primary source thing is the most important.

So while everyone is screaming about Hillary making assassination remarks about Obama with her RFK comment, I think it’s time we took a look at the primary source, in context.

Huhm, that doesn’t sound like a veiled threat to me. Doesn’t sound like she’s hoping for an Obama assassination so she can step in. Nope- sounds like she is describing the historical context of other primaries that went on until June.

But wait, maybe I’m just a bit too biased towards my own candidate. Let’s take a look at what RFK’s son said about Hillary’s comment. I mean if anyone was sensitive to veiled assassination threats, it would be a Kennedy, right?

It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. I have heard her make this reference before, also citing her husband’s 1992 race, both of which were hard fought through June. I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”

Wait- she’s made this statement before? How can that be? Is the media sleeping on the job and let her get an assassination dog whistle out there without calling her on it?

Perhaps it’s because she made the statement in March, when Obama thought he had the race sewn up, before Pennsylvania. Before West Virginia and Kentucky and a super close race in Indiana.

Perhaps this uproar over nothing is merely yet another cog in the WWTSBQ machine. Obama didn’t need to use fake assassination threats in March, but things are a bit more desperate now.(And for the love of Pete, with either a black man or a woman who is going to end up being the Dem nominee, there are enough REAL threats to their lives and safety without making them up).

Contrary to popular Blogger Boy opinion

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I don’t think they can rely on the AA community to be their street rioting war fodder should the Precious not be nominated. And I’ll tell you why.

I live in an AA community, that’s no secret. We’re poor, we live where the housing is used to be cheap. I would imagine that I have wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more daily interaction with AA folks than the Blogger Boyz do, simply by,you know- actually living near, working with and talking to them every. single. day.

And for I don’t know what reason, grandfatherly type AA men like to talk to me. Not in a creepy way, but in a friendly neighbor way.

One of those men is the janitor at work. He likes to come hang out in my lab and we talk politics and poverty and violence (both of us have noticed the increase in violence in our neighborhood). He knows my feelings on Obama, I know his feelings. Yet I have not heard a single riot threat. Huhm. Perhaps the Blogger Boyz are using a racist stereotype of black people being excessively violent to bolster their candidate’s claim to the thrown.

So if it were just a sample of one black guy, who I happen to have a friendly relationship with, that would be too small of a sample.

So let’s go to today. I’m waiting on the corner for the bus when the grandpa equivalent of the coffee clatch is hanging out. One of them snuck up and tapped his cane on the widow of the bus shelter and nearly gave his friends a heart attack. When I started cracking up with them over the joke, this lovely old man with a cane decided to show me his basketball moves. And then he asked me what I do and I have taken to calling myself a writer (unpaid-except for generous donations, but I always said I wanted to grow up to yell at people, travel and write stuff- since I’m doing that I’m calling myself a writer) on politics, election stuff came up again.

Now since I don’t know him well, when he asked me who i was supporting I said I didn’t know if I wanted to tell him. HE said “Not that McCain” with big terrified eyes. “No, Hillary’s my girl.” “Well what do you think about Obama?”

“I can’t vote for him either, it’s either Hillary or Cynthia McKinney”.

Guess what- no riot threats. Huhm.

Now coming home on the bus I got into another chat with a less elderly black man. It started cause he thought the fact that I can read ebooks on my phone is cool (OMG Blogger Boyz- there’s another of your deeply held stereotypes blown to shreds- black people DO like to read!) And once again things came around to the election. I told him I can’t vote for Obama cause he’s a sexist. He said “You’re not voting for McCain”

Which I responded to with a “Hell no! It’s Hillary or Cynthia McKinney for me”.

And then he asked me the most important question “who you think is gonna win?”

“Honestly,” I said, “McCain. And he’s a fuckwad.”

“Tell me something I don’t already know”.

But once again- no threats of riots. Huhm, I’m sensing a pattern here.

Could it be that the O’bots are using racial stereotypes to their advantage? OMG. It’s not like they haven’t been doing that with sexism since forever.

So all I have heard from black men so far is that they hate McCain as much as I do. And unlike the Blogger Boyz, when I point out the sexism in the campaign they neither deny it or minimize it.

I starting to think the Blogger Boyz think of the AA community as their own army of Orcs. What do you think will happen when they discover that African Americans are real, thinking people and not an easy manipulated army out of LOTR?

Their heads may just explode.

Carry Tennis is a Giant Sack of Shit

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Ugh.

I used to read Salon daily, hourly even. But over the last year or two (or three) it’s become, with a few exceptions, crap. A flaming bag of crap.

And Carry Tennis is the brightest glowing shit ember in that flaming bag of crap.

Salon’s resident tool advice columnist decided this week to tell a survivor of incest at the hands of her older brother that she should go to her parents 50th wedding anniversary and “by seeing your brother once more, finally extinguish the remaining embers of power he holds over you.”

Maybe, if he wasn’t a rapist. Maybe is if she didn’t have kids of her own that she was worried about. Maybe if her mother (the grand manipulator behind this scheme) had ever truly acknowledged the hurt this caused her and she felt like someone was on her side.

But in Carry Tennis’ formerly booze addled brain- he spouts a fairy tale about slaying dragons. Get off the WOW Carry, and maybe go take some psych classes.

Therapists (you know, professionals) would say that if she doesn’t feel safe or comfortable with the idea of being stuck with a manipulative mother and a rapist brother for several hours of family pictures and chit chat, then she should skip it.
Only bad therapists ever tell someone to suck it up and prove their toughness by hanging out with abusers. Bad therapists, and FDLS Church leaders that is.