Tag: Sexism

MTG, Ya Think?

Recently the firebrand from Georgia has made some out of context comments about her GOP colleagues….but recently she made one that gave me a chuckle.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is publicly clashing with GOP leadership again—this time taking aim at what she calls a pattern of “weak” Republican men in Congress. Greene, who’s lately been sparring with House Speaker Mike Johnson over the handling of the government shutdown, accuses him and other male colleagues of marginalizing the party’s more forceful women, per the Washington Post. She argues that while President Trump has promoted women to top cabinet positions, GOP women in the House are sidelined. Currently only one Republican woman chairs a committee, compared to five Democratic women in top committee positions.

Greene, who won her Georgia district by criticizing Republicans, is no stranger to intra-party fighting. She previously tried and failed to oust Johnson from the speaker’s chair and had a stormy relationship with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy until they reconciled. Her campaign against House leadership has seen her break with Johnson on high-profile issues, including supporting Democratic efforts to extend health care subsidies and pushing for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, she’s arguing Johnson has pushed Republican women to the side, expanding on an argument she made earlier.

House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Lisa McClain pushed back, saying Johnson has treated women fairly and promoted members based on merit. Greene, however, maintains that women like herself and Rep. Elise Stefanik are too often excluded from real influence, chalking it up to intimidation or jealousy. “Weak” Republican men are trying “to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something,” she says. She also suggests GOP women—like those who’ve signed on to the discharge petition related to the Epstein files—are more willing to sustain pressure from the president or Johnson. Male colleagues “don’t want to get yelled at,” she says.

She has stated the obvious!

Where the Hell has she been?   the GOP has been that way for as long as I can remember.

With all her epiphanies I just wonder where the Hell she has been for all those years?

What will she stumble upon next?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Did He Or Didn’t He?

This Omarosa thing is just about as silly as anything can get…..but the reaction of Our Dear Leader is even sillier……Omarosa has said that Trump used the “N” word and of course the president said he did not……

The long-rumored “Trump Tapes,” alleged Apprentice outtakes in which the host uses the n-word, are in the news again—and President Trump is insisting that they don’t exist. Trump tweeted Monday night that Apprentice executive producer Mark Burnett had called him “to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa.” He was using his new nickname for former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman, who says she heard a tape in which Trump used the slur multiple times during filming. “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have,” Trump said in his tweet. “She made it up.”

Tom Arnold, who has previously claimed to have the tapes, tweeted Monday night that Trump and Burnett are lying, the Hollywood Reporter notes. “Apprentice Employees gave statements about @realdonaldtrump saying multiple ‘n’ words on the set of @ApprenticeNBC & 100 other horrible things,” Arnold said. “I spoke to 2 Executive Producers & Mark Burnett in person. They all said Trump’s a liar & there is #TrumpTapes.” Trump administration official Lynne Patton issued a statement Monday night saying she spoke to former Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt and he firmly denied ever playing the damning tape to Omarosa, reports Business Insider. The tape “is a figment of her imagination and merely a destructive tool of manipulation applied only when it best serves her interests,” she said.

Maybe he did not use the insulting word but in the same vain he attacks from a sexist point of view…by calling this woman a dog…..

Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book on life at the White House is officially out on Tuesday, and President Trump already has a preemptive strike: “When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out,” he tweeted. “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!” It’s a continuation of an attack he started Monday, when he referred to his former ally as “wacky” and “vicious, but not smart.”

Time notes that Trump has frequently used “dog” as an insult, pointing to a New Republic article from three years ago that was rounding up examples even then. Victims ranged from Glenn Beck (He got “fired like a dog” by Fox) to Arianna Huffington (“She is a dog who wrongfully comments on me.”)

Why do so many Americans support this bully and his bullshit insults of people?  This is just another chapter in the life of a president that resort to bullying instead of reason thought and debate.

Sensationalism at its best!

Children dying in the Middle East from airstrikes and this is the “Big” story of the day….this is pathetic on so many levels.

Turn The Page!

Why Is The GOP Attacking Women?

Why not?  They surely cannot have much success attacking a popular president.  Why are women their focus of attacks?

In Brownback’s case, he is one of the Republican Party’s leading social conservatives and has been under pressure from that wing to disavow his support of the Democratic governor.

Though Sebelius has a reputation for working across party lines, she is anathema to abortion opponents because she supports  abortion rights.
Conservatives are still incensed about a Homeland Security memo that draws attention to the possible threat of “right-wing extremists” here in the U.S. But Democrats and other Napolitano supporters argue the memo itself originated with the Bush administration.
While it’s not surprising that Republicans are angry with a Democratic cabinet secretary, this brief episode is another instance in which rank-and-file Republicans tack further right than party leaders in their criticism of President Barack Obama. Conservatives in the House on Wednesday night called on Napolitano to resign because one of her memos mentioned right wing extremists as a threat.

As Media Matters for America documented, Pelosi has been the target of attacks by Republicans and conservative media figures. The Republican National Committee has attacked Pelosi for her “extremely liberal record.” On the November 1 edition of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, correspondent Andrea Koppel reported that Pelosi was “among the most liberal politicians in America,” and that “Republicans have seized on the prospect of liberal lawmakers running the House as a way to fire up their base on the campaign trail.” On the October 24 edition of MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough claimed that Pelosi is “out of touch … in so many districts across the country.” On the October 12 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, host Sean Hannity claimed that “people don’t know how extreme she is, but we’ve got 26 days to inform people.” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, on the October 12 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, attacked Pelosi’s “San Francisco values.” On the August 21 edition of Hannity & Colmes, Hannity called Pelosi “that San Francisco extreme left-wing liberal.”

Plus the GOP is blaming the recession on Pelosi, calling iut the “Pelosi Recession”.

Just three democratic women that are being singled out for attacks by the GOP.  I am sure there are more, but these are just the most senior of the attacks.  But why is the GOP attacking women?

A First For Saudi women

The appointment of a woman to Saudi Arabia’s influential council of ministers is a “first step” for women’s rights in the country, but it’s unclear if she will have any real power, an outspoken advocate said Sunday.

King Abdullah on Saturday appointed Norah al-Faiz to serve as the newly created deputy minister for women’s education as part of a major Cabinet reshuffling. It is the first time a woman has been appointed to the council.

“I’m very proud to be nominated and selected for such a prestigious position,” al-Faiz said. “I hope that other ladies, females, will follow in the future.”

She noted that Saudi women still do not have the right to drive and are recognized under Saudi law as the property of men.

Al-Maeena said that King Abdullah has “always been on the side of women and this stems from his pure and ideal Islamic values, which gives rights to women. …”

“But unfortunately,” he said. “Over the past few decades, there had been some, you know, backrolling of women’s participation.”

Now this is something to celebrate right?  IMO, NO!  This is just a move to silence all their critics in the West.  Women in Saudi Arabia will be NO better off now than they were last week.

This is a smoke screen!  Saudi Arabia has taken a lot of criticism recently for its policies towards women.

Now if they want me to believe that women are equal, then let them drive, give them equal rights,  maybe when they accomplish that the world will stop being so critical of their policies toward women and they can move into the 21st century with most of us.

A New Woman’s Movement?

The Boston Globe is reporting there is the beginnings of a new movement.

Clinton’s presidential bid galvanized women as no other campaign in recent history has. While many younger women supported Barack Obama, among Clinton’s most passionate supporters were older women who saw the former first lady as their best chance of having a woman in the White House in their lifetimes – and who saw the demise of her campaign as evidence of lingering sexism in America. In Denver this week, many of these women have been talking about the emergence of a new movement that would unite women across the generational divide to combat discrimination, unequal pay, and other concerns.

Several dozen of Clinton’s strongest female supporters met three weeks ago in New York to organize The New Agenda, a nonpartisan group focused on women’s issues and electing women candidates. Amy Siskind, a major Democratic donor and activist from New York who helped start it, said in a phone interview yesterday that she has received e-mails and calls of support from around the country.

But it is not at all clear a new movement would benefit the organizations that have long been at the forefront, such as EMILY’s List and NARAL. Now, they are calling for unity, saying that some of the most important women’s issues, especially abortion rights, are at stake in November and that Clinton supporters have a duty to stand up for them.Many Clinton loyalists, though, are angry with the leaders of the party and women’s groups, saying they did too little to confront rampant sexism and allowed an unfair primary process. They are divided over whether to support Obama or Republican John McCain – a troubling turn for the Democratic Party and for the feminist establishment, whose credibility depends on keeping Clinton supporters in the fold.

Women Taking On The Trades

Non-traditional occupations, like auto service or auto repair, are those in which women comprise 25 percent or less of the total employment. According to Department of Labor statistics for 2006, only 1.6 percent of those working as automotive service technicians or mechanics were women. That’s 14,000 women compared to 861,000 men in that profession.

Brittany Johnson, a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning student at Platt Technical High School in Milford, said she always knew she wanted to do something a little bit different and, after going through the school’s exploratory program, said she loved the HVAC program.

She said she didn’t necessarily receive criticism from the boys but they did give her a little bit of a hard time. “It was more of the ‘boys will be boys’ type of criticism so I knew they were just kidding around.” Johnson said. “You shouldn’t worry about the boys; you should just do whatever shop you want to do.”Nancy Roman, a junior at Platt Tech, is in the culinary curriculum but took plumbing classes at the school.

“Some people didn’t think I would be able to do some of the things like plumbing but I got the highest grade,” Roman said. “The boys were surprised but not critical because they asked me for help.” There are many jobs and opportunities students are unaware of until they go through the exploratory program, said Debra Anderson, guidance coordinator for Emmett O’Brien.

These types of exploratory courses are usually the best way for girls to discover if they would like a non-traditional career. There are also summer intern programs like those run by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford.

She said the girls have to prove themselves and work harder than the boys, otherwise they will not get the respect they deserve. “You always have something to prove as a female, I’ve just come to accept it,” said Amiot, who will be spending the next year on a sabbatical, working to help certify four automotive programs at technical high schools in Connecticut.

This could be excellent news for the labor movement–women could become the majority in the movement–You Go Girls!

Would Someone Please Explain It To Me!

NOTE: Before everyone tries to pile on to me—I am NOT an Obama supporter. I would like to hear the reasons behind the anger.

The whole anger thing with Clinton, that is. I understand that the candidate that one supports and they do not get the nomination. I can understand that completely. My problem is I cannot understand the “if not Clinton, even it will be McCain” mindset. Do not understand why a Dem would vote Repub just to get even. I thought this was about what would be best for the country, not the gender or the race of the candidate.

So the people that will vote for McCain because of the Clinton loss, would rather see the country suffer through 4 more years of a Bush-esque administration, than to actually help the country. Is that about it? Obama and Clinton are so similar in the positions on issues that it would be hard to determine which one is which without a cheat sheet. But yet, voters will throw all that away just because they are pouting?

Where is that an educated electorate? Does that mean that these voters will sell out their political principles on some half baked idea that there is a conspiracy to keep a woman out of the White House? I was laboring under the misconception that issues were the driving force behind the election decisions and apparently I was misinformed.

Ok now I ask, why are those people supporting Clinton so rabidly? Because she is a woman? Because she is a white? Or maybe because she is a white woman? How about that she feels your pain? Just what makes Clinton the best person for the nomination? If she was leading in the delegate count would that then make her the most acceptable candidate?

I apologize if this offends anyone, but I cannot understand this massive amount of people that are willing to defect to the Repubs on a whim. I do not understand ANY Dem injecting race or gender or etc into a political contest. Dems have always stood in support of woman, people of color and so forth. Would this be the same problem if Obama was an African-American woman?

So I am asking is this election about the issues that concern the American people or is it about the gender of the candidates. Like I have said, I can understand the disappointment of the fact that one’s candidate will not get the nomination, but for Dems to spew such vile about each other is just them acting like the Repubs, who are experts at spreading the vile.

Maybe the GOP is the best place for such hatred.

Clinton: A Victim Of Misogyny

“Some have said your votes didn’t matter, that this campaign was over…” the New York senator said over and over on the campaign trail in Kentucky in the days before the primary there on Tuesday.

If you talk to voters at her rallies, you will find women who resent what they view as Clinton being pushed out of the presidential race. A Clinton support group formed last week and has run full-page ads in newspapers stating, “Not so Fast.”

Many female Clinton supporters are suddenly galvanized and are angry at what they call blatant sexism in this presidential race.

IMO, she is not being pushed out of a race she cannot win without help from Party insiders. So that argument is just damn silly. A victim of sexism? By whom? Obama? I have not seen anything that would appear to be so. If we are talking about that sign in early January held by one who opposed her, saying “Iron my shirts”…then I will concede that it was a sexist sign, but so far I have not seen the blatant sexism that some are saying is being committed toward Clinton.

Bill Clinton Sunday defended U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, saying he’s “never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.”

Speaking at a campaign rally in Fort Thompson, S.D., the former president said there has been a “frantic effort to push” his wife out of the race for the Democratic nomination, but asserted she “will win the general election if you nominate her,” ABC News reported.

“They’re just trying to make sure you don’t.” he said.

“And I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.”

Granted I am a male and may not be as sensitive to misogyny as a female, but I do not think that it applies to the campaign run by Obama.  And Bill’s accusation is just unwarranted, the MSM has done more to keep her in the race than Bill himself.  It is more of an excuse for her lose to an upstart that most people ignored in the beginning.  She lost her inevitability and now they are trying desperately trying to explain he lose.