When the tendency to dehumanize other people in order to prop up oppressive patriarchal white supremacy makes you look so uncaring, immature, and selfish, it also makes me feel kind of sick.
Saturday, November 23, 2024
They marched.
"We will not stand for racism and hatred': Columbus churches hold peaceful, silent protest"
Thank you for the hot shower to moisten my nasal passages and throat, God.
Dear God! If I'm a white man in my next lifetime, could you please not make me the kind of white man who acts like this is his birthright: "I need the women with deeply internalized misogyny issues to put me on a pedestal at the expense of a lot of other kinds of people, including so many women and girls, all day long, in order to build up my very shaky self esteem."
Good.
"I believe that the social work profession must be held accountable for its discriminatory practices."
~ Ronald E. Hall
"The US adoption system discriminates..."
What happened to you?
Did you marry into a culture that makes you degrade girls and women in order to have something nice for yourself in life? Like a job, or a house, or a car, or enough money to buy your groceries?
What??? Did they vote for their daughters to be bullied and threatened at school?
“'Your body, my choice,' was coined by the far-right, pro-Nazi internet troll and Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes on the night of the election. 'Your body, my choice,' Fuentes tweeted. 'Forever.' It’s a taunting inversion of the pro-choice slogan 'my body, my choice,' meant to assert women’s autonomy: instead, 'your body, my choice' presents women’s full citizenship and freedom as laughable, asserting, in gleeful terms, the male supremacy that will now carry for the force of policy and law under a new Trump administration.
In response to Fuentes’s post, pro-Trump men have adopted the slogan en masse to troll women online. An analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that the use of the phrase soared on social media in the days following the election, along with similar misogynist phrases like 'get back in the kitchen,' and the use of sexist slurs directed at liberal and progressive women like Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow. Female TikTok users reported a flood of such comments, with 'your body, my choice' chief among them on the platform. And young girls in schools, along with their teachers and parents, reported incidents of the phrase being yelled out by boys in taunting jeers of harassment and intimidation in the days following the election."
~ Moira Donegan
"'Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men
Oh no! I just thought they wanted cheaper groceries. Is this true????
"A large part of what a majority of Americans voted for last week was the Trump campaign’s virulent misogyny. Trump himself, an adjudicated rapist who has bragged about both committing sexual assault and engineering the reversal of Roe v Wade, speaks of women in vulgar, degrading terms. He picked a running mate who has denigrated childless women as 'psychotic' 'cat ladies.' His adviser and funder Elon Musk, who seems to have designs on becoming something of a shadow president in Trump’s second term, is a techno-fascist pro-natalist who goes around offering women insemination.
The Trump campaign positioned itself as a champion of a hierarchical gender order, aiming to restore men to a place of wrongfully deprived supremacy over women. Many of his voters cast their lot in with Trump hoping that he would do just that."
~ Moira Donegan
‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men
Another day, another reminder that I am not a white man in 2020s America.
Well, I'm definitely not going to go out of my way to prop up some white men's favorite abusive sexual predators, just because some of you were raised to:
act like white men are more important than other kinds of human beings no matter what they do
and you also
act like women of any background who marry white men are more important than other kinds of women
and then you
act like women who have children with white men are more important than other kinds of woman
and that means you
act like children who are whiter are more important than other kinds of children.
Who does this benefit, exactly?
"Video: Hateful rhetoric towards women surges on social media"
"Young pro-Trump men have rolled out a creepy, snide and all-too-revealing mantra"
~ Moira Donegan
"'Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men
"How ‘Your Body, My Choice’ Threatens Women in the Trump Era"
Maybe don't go to one of these functions, and RIP Daisy & Melinda Coleman
"The resort was hosting a conference and party for the California Federation of Republican Women. Doe, a staffer for the organization, was staying at the hotel with her husband."
~ Bill Chappell
"Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, time..."
"Daisy Coleman, subject of Netflix documentary 'Audrie and Daisy' dies by suicide at age 23"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daisy-coleman-dies-suicide-age-23-audrie-and-daisy-netflix-documentary/
"Melinda Coleman, mother of Daisy Coleman, dies by suicide"
What?!
"On June 14, 2015, Hegseth accidentally hit a West Point drummer while axe throwing during a live segment in honor of Flag Day. Hegseth missed the target and the axe hit one of the people behind it. Footage of the accident soon became popular on the internet. In 2018 the drummer filed a lawsuit against Fox and Hegseth alleging that he has suffered 'severe and serious personal injuries to his mind and body,' and 'permanent effects of pain, disability, disfigurement and loss of body function' as a result of their negligence.[38]"
"Pete Hegseth" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
AND
"Police report gives details, timeline of the sexual assault claim against Pete Hegseth"
Your selfish and irresponsible and untrustworthy choices and behavior patterns hurt human beings.
I wonder why you and your small-minded friends still feel so entitled to degrade so many different kinds of people.
Even if you believe him, your children still deserve better than an immature, chauvinistic 44-year-old.
"A fateful night in Monterey: Pete Hegseth and allegations..."
Sorry, boys and girls.
Some of your moms and dads might be too self-absorbed and chauvinistic to care about your basic human rights, but you still deserve better.
Sadly, "Only veterans who are men are important" is an acceptable attitude for some...
Human beings deserve so much better than the shallow, degrading, careless sexism which some people have gotten accustomed to accepting and reinforcing as a part of their everyday lifestyles.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Is cake your life?
“'I’ll tell you what, Dan,' Howdy Holmes said. 'If I wake up at night overwhelmed with whimsy, I’ll give you a call.'”
~ D. Kois
"It Was Once America’s Favorite Cake..."
https://slate.com/life/2024/11/tunnel-of-fudge-cake-recipe-pillsbury-bundt-frosting.html
Some people should grow.
Some people should know that they made an impression that they are really not well. Perhaps they were traumatized in a way that made them become more self-absorbed, small-minded, sexist and uncaring, so that to actually be at even a baseline level of decency to some people who are "too different" from them is apparently just too much of a stretch for them!
Humanity deserves better! That's very clear.
Humanity deserves much better than some people who are still acting like they think that putting abusive white man on pedestals at the expense of everyone else is good enough for everybody. It's not good enough. It's not even close to good enough.
Maybe you should take a harder look at your values.
"Ask yourself: In a country where school violence is commonplace, do Americans really need a defense secretary who has promoted a war — figurative or not — on American schools? Consider the message this might send at a time when right-wing religious extremists already portray schools as enemy territory. And then consider how it looks to have the top civilian leader of the United States military affirming their views.
It’s typical for defense secretaries to have battle plans, of course, but if he’s confirmed, Hegseth will be unique in that the war he’s most prepared to wage isn’t against a foreign combatant but against institutions and people he’ll be sworn to protect."
~ Ja'han Jones
"Pete Hegseth calls for ‘educational insurgency’ against American schools"
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