“President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” said Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., as she raised her hands to lead the crowd in Mendon, Ill., in applause.”
The creature actually said that. She can claim now that she didn’t mean it, but I’m not convinced it wasn’t an intentional remark on her part.
I really need those digits. Please stop delaying and let’s get on with it.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
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What happened to the 10 call?
Working on the test results.
A woman named Erin H wrote this, and its too important not to share.
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My daughter is four. She came home from school and told me she was playing a game called “Princess Gets Rescued From a Tower”. The kid of two feminists, living in a liberal city in a blue state, at the age of four, has internalized the idea that princesses need rescuing.
I did four years of residency in ObGyn and three years of residency in Psychiatry. I am an MD and a practicing psychiatrist. I don’t have the bandwidth to look at the numbers right now, but I will tell you from personal experience with hundreds and hundreds of patients that women are the strong ones. Most of the babies of teen girls I delivered had no support apart from their own mothers. I wrote “father of baby not involved” in the chart more times than I can count. Most of the pregnancy terminations I performed were for girls and women on their own. Nothing made me feel like I’d made more of a difference than providing a desired termination for a teenager and placing her IUD. Now that girl gets to continue her education, develop her frontal lobe, and decide who she wants to be and what she wants to do. She doesn’t have to be a baby trying to raise a baby. She doesn’t have to be another cog in a system that perpetuates the cycle of poverty in order to keep women and people of color from working towards equality, equity, fairness and real change.
Make no mistake. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade today is not about saving the lives of the unborn. It is about control of women’s bodies and agency, particularly poor women without the resources to travel out of state for a pregnancy termination.
Women are meant to be property. Don’t believe me? How many letters have I received addressed to “Mrs. Husband’s First Name – Husband’s Last Name” instead of “Dr. My First Name – My Last Name”? How many people think my kids have their dad’s last name, because he’s the man and when you get married you’re supposed to give up your identity? Yes, it’s only a name. Yes, it’s tradition. But try speaking up against it— even that one, small thing— and see how much resistance you run into.
Now women want more than our own names. We want to be paid the same as our male colleagues. We want our voices to be heard in legislation and government. We’d even like to be the president someday. At bare minimum, we’d like to decide the timing and circumstances of when we become parents, because women still carry the majority of responsibility for raising children today, with rare exceptions. We are on a tightrope with no safety net, because there’s so little in the way of institutional support for people who end up with a baby to support and no way to put food on the table.
People who are thinking about how to get from one day to the next aren’t in the streets protesting. People who are terrified that they’ll be beaten or raped by their partner aren’t rallying for change. People who are trying to raise a child on a minimum wage salary with no parental leave benefits, without any sort of support, aren’t getting an education. People who are working two jobs to keep a roof over their heads aren’t voting.
And that’s the goal.
The princess in the tower may need a rescue now, but ask yourself who put her there. Ask yourself who robbed her of the tools to escape, because she’s strong and capable. If you’re a woman, stay safe. If you’re a woman of privilege, help your sisters. If you’re a man, speak up for us. And if there’s any part of you who feels that this is a move that will help any human beings at all, including the unborn children who are the proposed beneficiaries, I cheerfully invite you to get fucked. Nobody wins when women are forced to have kids they can’t or don’t want to support. Not them, not the kids… and not you.
The only advice you really need to give women is VOTE! In America that keeps the woman OUT of the tower. Women have the advantage in numbers at every election, municipal, State, and Federal. Nothing prevents the white woman from voting, except that white woman. The problem is she is more likely than not as dumb as the proverbial box of rocks so she is easily persuaded to vote as white men tell her to vote. Your efforts should be directed towards educating those white women. They are the ones keeping non white women under the power of men.
Why should men speak up for you or any other woman when the power to control what happens to women in America is up to women. It helps if some men join them at the polls to counter the stupid women who will follow their men lockstep at the polls. You can educate the dumb, but there is no hope for the stupid.
Why protest to get equality when you can vote it in? No other group in America has that power, so they have to protest in the hope that those with the voting power will join them in voting for a change. That was a nice narrative that you wrote, but you could have made it simpler, more direct and more effective if you had directed it towards motivating women, especially WHITE women to vote for the change they want to see.
Robert, In response to what you wrote under the blog heading “Drift.”
I have to agree with you. Although, “delighted” is not the word I would choose. No, this decision makes me feel “I-told-you-so” smugly. We deserve what we got. I’m quite sick of women having the majority of the voting power, yet not exercise their right to vote, but instead put their lives in the hands of men who really couldn’t care less about them as long as their own needs are met.
And I cannot stand hearing all about these after-the-fact protests. You won’t see me participating in any. I voted. If women had just gone to the polls to vote out these bastards in the first place, instead of saying, “My vote won’t count,” or “I don’t have time to go to the polls” they wouldn’t have to rally and spend hours protesting something that could’ve been nipped in the bud had they just voted. That’s the problem with America, it’s all about applying bandaids instead of getting to the source of the issue and killing the germ before it grows into a virus spreading through the halls of the Congress, till soon enough, we’re living in a Dystopian world, Aka: “The Handmaid’s Tale (Sonia, that’s a nod to you from your comment posted on blog “A dark day for women) If you’ve read the book or seen the series, the rights of women got chipped away little by little, till one day they woke up and they had no freedom because they were lazy and didn’t see the red flags waving frantically right in front of them. Now, they don red robes spending their entire lives at the mercy of men and the women who support them.
Yes, this SCOTUS decision will mean women and girls will die in alleys, and unwanted babies will be born. But hey, that’s what laziness at the polls will do. That’s what happens when you don’t take a stand in support of your own well-being. That’s what happens when you say, “I’m not interested in politics.” (Wha’at?!) Then don’t bitch when you don’t get what you want because everything is political.
Will this be the impetus that’s needed to take action to change the course of our country? Or will women continue to not support each other and file lockstep behind their husbands? Will this embolden other conservative countries to follow suit and consider banning abortions as some have stated? We are the super power, what we do matters. Your vote isn’t just for the well-being of the women in the US, but for the women around the world.
It’s a defining do or die moment. Women will rise, claim our power, equality and freedom, or we’ll stay controlled by the heavy hand of the patriarchy living as second class citizens. It really is our choice. We just have to take it.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
That was one of the best on point posts I have seen here. It reminds me of the no holds barred, common sense advice I looked forward to on “A Day In The Life.”
Bravo!
To those aliens that have deserted their motherships and are now on earth. Karma has caught up to you. You will die with the pathetic earthlings that will destroy their planet in a nuclear holocaust. You will if you have not discovered that you can flee your race, mothership, or the authority of His Grace. You can even flee from oval time, but not from yourselves. Karma always catches up.
You can’t secure your future by running away from your past, Yesterday and tomorrow, both, are interlinked. Now your only hope is to prevent the nuclear disaster coming. What will you do? What can you do? Time is running out. This is a notice to all of you. None will be forgiven, none will be allowed to come up. You have given up our mantra – “Ours is not to reason why, Ours is but to do or die” for “We know why, we must do, or die.” Get on it!
Russia is again threatening nuclear confrontation. Putin has put out that any NATO, meaning US, interference in the Crimea will result in WW3. Let’s hope the US calls his bluff. Give Ukraine the weaponry that can reach the Crimea from a safe distance. Allow Ukraine to hit military targets in Russia. If China decides to assist Russia, then let it be known that their supply ships will also be Ukraine targets.
Did You Know?
The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing a preamble, 470 articles grouped into 25 parts, 12 schedules, 105 amendments, and comprised of 146,385 words (in its English language version).