Feminists

I have a thick skin . . . I guess because I had parents heavily involved in local politics growing up - I truly believe all politics are local.


Now - some of it isn't patriarchy per se - Iran and Afghanistan I look at as War Profiteers making a buck off the deaths of innocent people. Not just there - but innocent American soldiers who died over some huge whoppers being told - to benefit whatever Eric Prince's outfit is being called these days and Darth Cheney.


But I could say this - why do we ignore women being raped to death in Darfur? Even Dummya called it a genocide . . . I have thoughts/opinions on that - but I've had to step away from my Genocide activism because I've learned that I'm just handful of people globally who cares. We couldn't stop it - so I give up.

But - I can fight Chris Christie with everything I've got. Because he lives just a few miles up the road where I'm sitting at this very minute.

I guess I'm saying that unless the Feminist movement in America acknowledges that:
1. Jan Brewer - Governor of AZ - HATES brown people. Not just Latinos/Latinas/Hispanics but allllllllllllll brown people. What ELSE am I to believe based upon her poor behavior? Really piss poor behavior.
2. It's okay to say that THAT woman is too wet to step on and too low to kick. Her gender aside - she's one of the bad guys. Her record proves it.
3. When she got up in President Obama's grill - she wasn't threatened. 35 years ago she would have been deliberately and maliciously trying to get an innocent man lynched. And her behavior was to show all the big smart white men that she could get away with it because she's a 'girl'.


Okay - three things - but those are three things to think about.

America in general is in the toilet. Our problems are huge. I can chip away at these five and get them corrected - or I can wax poetic about 3000 injustices against women around the world.


Focus on what can be done - just like we do at work. We have our to do list - some items are long pole items . . . some are quickies/hot potatoes. To me, equal pay legislation for women in America is something we can get done.

Rallying for equal pay for women in Southern Sudan, Lithuania, China, Brazil, etc. etc. - will keep us running on the hamster wheel for a long long time.

For me, theory and philosophy only excites me so much.

Now this? This excites me: http://www.nwlc.org/our-issues/employment/equal-pay It fires me up! GAME BACK ON!

We can get this done. We can do this. We can get a win. It will impact every single woman in America.

We get that done - I can start thinking about the 'Grand Things' - but right now - I need something real that can be held in the hands.


And I was aware of The Help thing. But thank you for putting those details out there! It needs to be said, over, and over, and over again.

Stockett did not 'solve the issue of racism' in America in her little book there . . .