Sore Loser Whiners

I keep hearing the same line of shit from the Obots "Stop being a sore loser".

This is not a sports game, and that you are treating it like one goes straight to the heart of the problem with this entire campaign. You don't say "stop being a sore loser" to someone in the middle of a war. And that is what we are in the middle of- a political war.

We are not going to lose a silly bet or bragging rights by losing this primary season. We will lose the heart and soul of the democratic party and all of the values that have made this party great since FDR will be thrown out the window. We are fighting to have our voices and our lives count. We are fighting because our party has been the big tent forever, but in this election cycle more and more of us (women, the poor and working classes, minorities) are being shoved out into an open field in a thunderstorm. Just like in my little roof metaphor, only now it is people who are supposed to by our allies doing the shoving and trampling.

Our votes cannot and should not be disenfranchised, marginalized, our disrespected. Our votes are earned, for us women we worked a fuck of a lot harder to get them than any of the Blogger Boyz ever did. We even worked harder than African American men did, though we worked to get them their votes too (and got thrown under the bus for 70 years for our troubles). So when someone tries to threaten and bully us into voting against our own self-interests,we know exactly what we are giving up.

Votes are earned. And Obama has not earned our votes. He has casually and callously dismissed them. And to be honest, I can't see a moment when when there is enough water under the bridge for me to forgive that. You can't shove us into the down pouring rain and then threaten us with broken umbrellas if we don't agree with you. We're all ready wet. A little more water won't hurt us.

Dear Blogger Boyz

It's too late for flowers and candy.

Perhaps if your candidate hadn't spent the last 6 months being a misogynist douchebag things could be different.

Perhaps if he hadn't thrown everyone under the bus except for you, things would be different.

Perhaps if you all hadn't jumped on the Why won't the stupid bitch quit already campaign, things would be different.

Perhaps if you all hadn't spent the last three weeks declaring that the white underclass couldn't possibly have valid opinons and that they are all just racists, things would be different.

Perhaps.

But it's too late.

In fact, I think another post-sexual white woman said it best with this.

Women- Know Your Limits!

Worst. Housewife. Ever!

I am a negative 10 on the housewife scale. But I could have told you that without the test.

Dear NARAL, a break up letter

I received this morning's email regarding your endorsement of Obama for president. All I can say is "et tu, NARAL?" Did ya drink the koolaid?

Since when has "some control over their own bodies" meant bodily autonomy. I already have "some" control over my own body. I choose what to eat and when to sleep and thankfully who I get to fuck. But NARAL, I counted on your political action to work towards getting me full bodily autonomy.

And now you've gone and endorsed a candidate who not only wouldn't know reproductive rights from a hole in the ground (No, seriously- he had to be reminded by an aid that voting to confirm Roberts wouldn't be good news for any of his female supporters because he just doesn't think about things that don't involve his penis) but he also thinks misogyny, race baiting and classism are viable campaign tactics. being that you are a POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I would takes this to mean you think his political actions are just and good.

And for an organization whose stated goal's include electing pro choice candidates, I am surprised that you endorsed Obama who has in no manner, way, shape or form shown himself to be pro choice. He has shown himself to be dodgey with his "present" votes in the Illinois senate on the issue and changeable with his comments on parental notification. But so far there is nothing about him that says definitively- "I believe women should have the full rights to their own bodies that men have". Quite the opposite actually.

I applied to be one of you summer canvassers. Please tear up and or burn my resume. I will instead give my time and my money to PATH or Planned Parenthood or hell I'll just stand on the streets and hand out free condoms, but I will not support an organization for choice that supports candidates who want to restrict my right to choose.

Sincerely,

RQ

Hey troll

I found you a home of your own (actually AG did it, but I don't think she'll mind if I play real estate agent to the Under the Bridge dwellers.)

Enjoy! I think it suits you perfectly.

"I don't believe that's true"

You all have heard me talk about the knee patting boys who try to explain the complicated and difficult world of politics to me, a fricken poly sci major for the love of gawd!

It happened again the other day when a couple of (male) students and I were talking about the VP spot and the line of succession for the presidency. When I said that Speaker of the House comes after the VP one of them said "I don't believe that's true" and "How would you know so much about it?"

Fucker.

So this article strikes a real chord with me.

Older men, younger men, men who are my students, men who are my "friends", seem to think that they know more about my chosen major than they do. And we're not talking complicated theory here. We're not talking changing philosophies. We're talking basic governmental rules.

And then someone(a dear friend who will read this at some point) when I explained why I am not a liberal but a progressive, did the internet version of the head pat and stated that it's because I'm young and can't remember that liberal wasn't always a bad word. No, it's because I'm educated as to the proper definition and I am not a free trade monkey- hence progressive and not liberal.

I know what I am talking about. I promise the vagina does not make me stupid, naive, or uninformed on the topics that I speak about. I am also perfectly capable of researching and establishing my own well informed opinions. (Same thing happens with music, I shit you not, and I am only a former insufferable music snob. I don't have time to keep up with it lately)

So for future reference- woman does not automatically equal less informed than you.

Whose words are more inspiring?

The words of inspired diplomacy and human rights activism, or the words of misogyny and hate from The Precious and his cronies. You decide.

Via Tennessee Guerilla Women

We are more than just the sum of our vaginas

I heard form a friend who heard from a friend who heard from an Obamabot campaign employee that Obama is in negotiations with Hillary to give her the VP spot.

Apparently someone in the Democratic leadership figured out that you can't win an election if a quarter of your party refuses to support the nominee.

What they fail to realize is that we are not so blinded by our need for a vagina in the White House that we will see past Obama's serious failings just because he's decided to give our candidate the do nothing job of VP.

Hillary being Obama's number 2 mitigates as much of Obama's lack of experience, sexism, and messianic cultishness as Gore's being number 2 mitigated Bill's affairs or Cheeney's being number 2 mitigates Bush's entitled stupidity- in other words, not at all.

So should the Democratic party do something so obviously condescending - I am still voting for either McKinney or writing Hillary in.

On the other hand- if Mr Postage Stamp resume wanted to take the VP spot, spend a couple of years seeing how running a government is different than running a campaign for head cult leader president, I would have no problems. He is younger and less experienced. I would hate to see our highest office turned into the corporate cliche of the woman who has worked for decades becoming the number two to the bosses favorite nephew.

Shameless Appropriation Time

From Sapphocrat at Lavender Liberal comes this amazing graph of Obamabots' "persuasion" tactics.

It reminds me of the wheel of violence and Anglachel's post.

Trolling and Male Privilge

Why are trolls almost always boys? Why, like rapists, can they not take no for an answer? Why don't they leave when you ask, demand, ban, block, and delete them?

Rotten Feminist knows why. And she is dead on right (resident troll take note- she describes you perfectly with these words)

He relies on assumptions and stalker-like tactics. He is indignant that we refuse to “hear his voice” either by ignoring him or out-right deleting his comments. And he operates with the attitude that he is right, and all other ideas are WRONG.

And now I have someone new to add to my google reader.

On Good Germans- Revisited

When you've got as many old blog posts as I do, you run the risk of repeating yourself, often. And I do that.

A long time ago I wrote a post to Jovial and Wonder about good Germans. Both are progressive Christians, you know the kind that actually follow Christ's teachings instead of using the bible as an excuse for greed and hate. The point of the post was that my disgust over the corruption of Christianity was not the fight they needed to have. The fight they needed to have was with those people who also called themselves Christians and then distorted the message so that ALL Christians get painted with the crazy paint.

And now I find myself in the position of the Good Germans.

My party has been taken over by a charismatic cult of personality.

And over and over again I am threatened, harassed, bullied, and extorted to put my support behind The One. For the sake of party unity, for the sake of the November elections, for the sake of the Supreme Court, for the sake of the war. I am being bullied into supporting someone who gives me more pause than even 100 years McCain. McCain is awful for sure, but he is not running as a transformative religious cult figure.

And I cannot be a Good German. I believe in my gut that Obama is more wrong for the democratic party and for our country as a whole than any candidate I can remember. He is the Reagan of the Democrats, and we all remember how truly awful the Reagan years were for anyone who wasn't white and male and American. Reagan is not a name anyone with real progressive philosophies would invoke in a positive light.

I understand those Dems who will hold their nose and vote for Obama for fear of the the supreme court or destruction of the party. But please understand, I cannot and will not be a good German on this. More than just the integrity of the party is at stake.

I cannot vote for someone who will use poor people, working people, brown people who aren't AAs, and women as scapegoats.

I cannot vote for a Demoratic party that has turned itself into the party of elite "liberal" thinkers.

I cannot vote for a Democratic party that is not inclusive of everyone.

And I will fight my own party tooth and nail to rescue it from the cultish turn it is taking. And if I cannot save my party then I will work my ass to find and create a viable alternative for all of us who have been shut out (again) from democracy.

If we don't fight it now, in the beginning when it is easiest, then the fight will get much more difficult later.

For your viewing pleasure

Obamabot Bingo! (Click to embiggen)

My Uterus Will Not Be Held Hostage

So the cry from the Blogger Boyz and their cronies to those of us who refuse to drink the koolaid and bow to the Precious is "What about Roe! What about the Supreme Court!"

Fuck you. Seriously. I don't like it when Rethuglikan boyz try to control my behavior with threats to my bodily autonomy, why on earth would you think it's okay coming from you.

Really it is two halves of the same coin. Don't be a slutty whore or you'll get punished with an unwanted pregnancy on one side and don't be a slutty Hillary voter or you'll get punished with an unwanted Supreme Court on the other.

How's this? It's my mother fucking uterus and I am a grown up woman. I think I know how to best protect it, and you boyz do not. I am sick of and tired of having to vote for shit ass people because of a threat to limit my control of my own body. And quite honestly- so far my voting for the candidate least likely to pack the court with Forced Pregnancy wignutz hasn't done shit. Did the Dems shut down Roberts- no. Did they stop the partial birth abortion ban- no.

So my letting the immediate safety of my uterus dictate my votes hasn't really worked out. And you boyz seem to think that is the ONLY thing feminists care about. Yes- reproductive rights are incredibly important. But they wouldn't even be an issue if we women were considered to be full human beings with all the rights that entails.

So I choose to focus my time and attention on a candidate who understands that women are more than the sum of their genitalia.

In the mean time I'm stocking up on birth control and emergency contraception.

My uterus, not a hostage, not for sale to the lowest bidder.

Get another tactic boyz.

To Matthew The Troll

Dear matthew/ julius/ tiny cock jim:

You are a troll and obviously an attention whore. You were warned yesterday that you are not welcome on my blog. I do not allow biggots or liars or people who are just tediously boring to comment here. You are the trifecta of all those things. You do not add anything of value to the conversation but you do manage to make blogs you troll the All About Tiny Penis Boy show for awhile. Look, you even have a whole blog post dedicated to your tiny cock now. I can only assume you are a masochist who gets
off on public humiliation. Now that you have been exposed i hope that you will have blown your wad (OMG a girl wrote a whole blog about my wee little man nugget) and will kindly leave. And don't forget to take you spooge covered tissues with
you. All future comments from you will either be deleted or replaced with cute kitteh pics.

Sincerely, RQ

A Question for Obama

If you originally said you could no more disown Rev. Wright than you could disown the black community, what does you're recent break with Rev. Wright signal to the black community?

Are they expendable if their support becomes too controversial too?

WWTSBQ- Backhanded Allies Edition

I keep wanting to like Jeff Fecke, I really do. He really does want to be an ally.

But Jeff has thrown his hat into the "Why won't that stupid bitch quit" already ring.

He couches it in kindler, gentler terms so us dumb girls don't catch that he's really saying "Either take your boobs and go home or play nice. Like a good girl. And stop with the meanness". Or as one commenter at Shakes said "She can stay in the race as long as she's not trying to win it"

Lemme point out a few things.

No other candidate with this many delegates has ever been put under the same kind of pressure to quit.

No other candidate who polls so well in the national election and keeps winning swing states has been under this much pressure to quit.

But she's a girl. And the Precious doesn't want to compete with a girl anymore. He won't debate her anymore. And she is looking at a couple of major wins in the next round of primaries. And Florida and Michigan want their votes counted too. It's just too much for the Precious to endure.

But according to Jeff, if Hillary wants to stay in the race she totally can. As long as she avoids any mention of her opponent. Or his flaws. Or his lack of experience. Or his sexism. Or the fact that the working class doesn't trust him.

Wait- you know what. Hillary has been avoiding that kind of talk. She's talked about policy and issues, how she would solve the serious problems of this country and how she really does care about us "bitter" little people.

We, the people, have talked about his lack of experience, his sexism, the fact that we just don't trust him.

Go tell the WA Post why you won't vote for Obama

Links and details at Uppity Woman's place

Whaddya waiting for. Go!

Hey Blogger Boyz And Talking Heads

The split in the Democratic party you are worried about- it's not racism that's causing it.

It's the misogyny, stupid.

And it's still the misogyny here too.

RQ Finally Discovers a way out of poverty

And is looking for investors.

I’m gonna start selling Unity Ponies.

It will be a box

Full of hot air and glitter

And I will be rich