Good morning!

Ethel: This one’s for you and all of the Maya Angelou fans, in honor of Black History Month:

Hater by Maya Angelou

A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.  They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever good enough!

When you make your mark, you will always attract some haters…

That’s why you have to be careful with whom you share your blessings and your dreams, because some folk can’t handle seeing you blessed…

It’s dangerous to be like somebody else… If God wanted you to be like somebody else, He would have given you what He gave them! Right?

You never know what people have gone through to get what they have…

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story…

If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher there too!

We’ve all got some haters among us!

Some people envy you because you can:

a) Have a relationship with God
b) Light up a room when you walk in
c) Start your own business
d) Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn’t about the right thing)
e) Raise your children without both parents being in the home

Haters can’t stand to see you happy. Haters will never want to see you succeed. Most of our haters are people who are supposed to be on our side.

How do you handle your undercover haters? You can handle these haters by:

1. Knowing who you are & who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)

2. Having a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job. You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

A purpose is having a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not defined by what others think about you.

3. By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not human manipulation.

Fulfill your dreams! You only have one life to live…when it’s your time to leave this earth, you ‘want’ to be able to say, ‘I’ve lived my life and fulfilled ‘my’ dreams,… Now I’m ready to go HOME!

When God gives you favor, you can tell your haters, ‘Don’t look at me…Look at Who is in charge of me…’

Pass this to all of your family & friends who you know are not hating on you including the person who sent it to you.

If you don’t get it back, maybe you called somebody out! Don’t worry about it, it’s not your problem, it’s theirs.. Just pray for them, that their life can be as fulfilled as yours! Watch out for Haters…BUT most of all don’t become a HATER!

‘A woman’s heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.’

Maya Angelou

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Readers: I think Angelou’s words are so true. And I’m not a religious girl, but that last line really moved me. You? I’ll save any comments I want to address till Monday.

However before I sign off, I did want to respond to Meymaneh and Sar-e-Pol: I too believe Obama is a gift to the world. We have no idea what the state of our country would be, not to mention the state of the world, should he not be our president. And although the racists here in the states refuse to recognize his accomplishments, his influence continues to ripple throughout our country, and the world. Obama’s influence on Egypt is another accomplishment to add to his growing list.

I wish the women of Egypt (and ALL women) the strength and power to achieve equality and rights, and all that they were naturally born to have.

Signing off…

The no holds barred forum is open :) …Blog me.

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Good morning.

I have been stressing a bit over what to write this morning. I have to admit that over the past two days between my birthday and another friend’s birthday, I have been in my own little celebratory atmosphere, and tonight is not going to be any different. Thank you again for all of your warm birthday wishes.

However, I want to at least address the happenings in Egypt. For the past hour and a half I have been trying to catch up on the latest. It is obvious the people of Egypt want their president, aka “dictator”, Hosni Mubarak to step down, and he simply refuses to. And now he’s appointed a V.P., Omar Suleiman. Not exactly what the people of Egypt consider “sufficient change”.

I say more power to the people. Just like the people in Iran, I support their desires to become a modern and democratic society. I don’t like violence, but I am moved by revolutions when people finally to come to the point in their lives where enough is enough, and they stand up to fight for their freedoms and rights.

And as always, in these moments of uprising, I can’t help but think of how women will be affected and treated, now and in their future.

Here is a photographic story of the steady erosion of women’s rights in Egypt:

These photos, sent by my good friend Tareq Heggy, speak volumes about the politicization of the Islamic Veil. In the 1950s, Cairo University graduates were not veiled. By the twenty first century, the veiling of educated women was fully underway.

January 28, 2010 – by Phyllis Chesler

Class of 1959

Class of 1978

Class of  1995

Class of 2004

Readers: I apologize for the small photos; I attached them as big as I could. But you can certainly see the politicization of the veil. Please increase your screen view if you can not.

Thoughts? Comments? Blog me.

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Good Morning.

Jackie: You brought up “civility”. This one’s for you.

Have you heard of ”Civility Project“? I hadn’t until recently. In short, Mark DeMoss, a Republican, founded a project to promote civility in politics. Pretty cool – catchy name – right to the point, right?

CivilityProject.org was started in January 2009: “…because of alarm over what he saw as the increasingly vicious tone in American politics. He asked his friend, Lanny J. Davis, a Jewish Democrat and a lobbyist who worked for President Bill Clinton, to join the effort.”

So check this out:

They sent out 585 letters asking every sitting governor and member of Congress to sign a pledge that said:

I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.

I will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.

I will stand against incivility when I see it.

Well “Civility Project” may be a catchy name but signing this pledge didn’t catch on. Out of the 585 letters sent out, just how many do you think signed the pledge?

I’ll whisper it because it is embarrassing to say the least.

Three.

Yes you read it right: Three (3)

Needless to say, after two years and $30,000 in expenses, DeMoss has decided to quit the project. Here’s the write.

Mark DeMoss Disbands ‘Civility Project,’ Citing Conservative Attacks, Grim View On Discourse

Mark DeMoss, director of the Civility Project, a two-year-old effort launched at the beginning of the Obama presidency to prompt legislators across the nation to cool political rhetoric, decided to shut the campaign down earlier this month — even before the latest resurgence of debate about “vitriol” and rhetoric sparked by the events in Arizona over the weekend.

DeMoss, an evangelical conservative with ties to some big-name Republicans, cited a general lack of interest, as well as pervading signs that the nature of political discourse appeared only to be deteriorating during Obama’s first two years as president, as justifications for halting his program.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, DeMoss provided a little insight about how his project was received by some on the right.

“The worst e-mails I received about the civility project were from conservatives with just unbelievable language about communists, and some words I wouldn’t use in this phone call,” DeMoss told The Times. “This political divide has become so sharp that everything is black and white, and too many conservatives can see no redeeming value in any liberal or Democrat. That would probably be true about some liberals going the other direction, but I didn’t hear from them.”

The pledge he sent to 585 sitting representatives, senators and governors in early 2009, asking them to sign on to the project’s three tenets, was simple:

I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.

I will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.

I will stand against incivility when I see it.

Yet two years after the launching of the initiative, he had only three signatures: Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Reps. Frank Wolfe (R-Va.) and Sue Myrick (R-N.C.).

“You three were alone in pledging to be civil,” wrote DeMoss in a release this month announcing the closure of the group. “I must admit to scratching my head as to why only three members of Congress, and no governors, would agree to what I believe is a rather low bar.”

While the lack of positive response appears to have been disheartening to DeMoss, he refrained from suggesting that there was any connection between increasingly contentious political discussions and the devastating violence in Arizona over the weekend.

“Whether or not there’s violence, whether or not incivility today is worse than it’s been in history, it’s all immaterial,” he told The Times. “It’s worse than it ought to be.”

Readers: It seems the “right” couldn’t even be civil when it came to sending e-mails to DeMoss with respect to his project. No surprise that they didn’t want to sign the pledge to be civil in politics. But hey, with only “three” signing, the “right” nor the “left” is looking good.

Just what does this say about our government? And the bar was set low!  Comments? Thoughts? It’s Friday…start flapping those lips.

Oh…and according to Astronomer Parke Kunkle, he says that due to the changing of the Earth’s alignment, the dates have changed, and many of us will have new astrological signs because of the additional 13th Zodiac sign: Ophiuchus.

Nope, no thanks. I was never one who paid much attention to my horoscope, but I love being an Aquarian, and I am not going to accept my new Capricorn sign. I’m just not going to change. Nothing against you Capricorns, who are now Sagittarians. :), but I don’t care about the Earth’s alignment presently. I am going by the alignment of the Earth when I was born. That sounds very logical to me. I was born an Aquarian and I will remain one. “Stand behind your sign!” Kudos to Tracey for coining that phrase. :)

Anyone else feel the same way? Blog me.

Tomei: Thanks for your additional comments. I never really looked at it the way you presented it. I understand now. Thank you.

ZL: I got your message. So sorry I haven’t gotten back to you. Work has been busy. I’ll try you this weekend.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

Suzanne: I apologize. In my haste yesterday, I neglected to respond to your suggestion of us getting together. I am quite busy these days, but yes, we do need to get together. :)

So in my haste let me make it up to you…this writes for you. Isn’t it fitting that today is “Friday”…and today’s post is about  ”flapping your lips”.

Butch/Femme/Top/Bottom – Gender within a Gender?

As I have had the pleasure of watching the extremely funny and interesting Vlogs and interviews here in AfterEllen, one recurring issue has gotten me to wonder something that I have noticed in the lesbian-bisexual-community in general.

A while back I was watching a hilarious Celesbian interviews by Julie and Kate and I saw Julie make jokes about Butch-on-Butch crime. I know she was kind of joking, but something I have seen a lot lately, is lesbians or bisexuals having the opinion that there should be a butch and a femme in a relationship and that it is somehow weird to have two femmes or two butches (not that I could even draw a line between those two groups of people).

Don’t get me wrong, I totally support the fact that people express their gender identity in a variety of ways, and the right to do so is one of the things that the LGBT-community has been fighting for. It’s just the idea that in order to be “right”, there needs to be one feminine and one tomboy-kind of lesbian in a relationship, that I find difficult to understand.

For me that just seems like we take the very gender roles that exist in the hetero-world and plant them into same-sex world and thus devide the lesbian community into two “genders inside a gender”. And I wonder if this is so that we could take the roles of “normal” people that might be easier to be accepted by the rest of the world ? And I don’t mean that there is anything wrong in the butch-femme relationships, just with the idea of that having to be the norm.

This butch/femme debate is connected quite closely to the fact that a lot of Vloggers declare themselves as a “top” (I have yet to see an AE -lesbian claiming to be a bottom). And again, yes, I understand that they are mostly joking, but very often they really seem to mean it. I always thought that the top/bottom-issue was for gay men and even then just a stereotype like the whole anal-fixation by the straight world.

In my mind, sex is always unique between two people, the sex I have with one person is not the same as with another. Do you see what I mean? Like, in my mind sex between two people is created by those two people and doesn’t exist without those people or with other people. Therefore I can’t understand how you could have a static role (like gender for opposite-sex couples) that you carry from one relationship to another.

The question I would like to see discussion on, is do you think there needs to be a “top” in a relationship?

And I am extremely interested to find out how people who identify themselves as either or, deal with that in their life. How does that work? If you are a top, can you only date bottoms? What if you meet a girl and she is hot, but turns out to be top, do you stop dating her?

I don’t think there are right or wrong answers or opinions on this topic and the point in writing this post was not to say that there would be anything wrong with having the idea of wanting to date a femme/butch/top/bottom, I am just really really interested how you guys view this issue!

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Readers: Like I said, it’s Friday…Blog this BABE.

Zen Lill: Happy to hear that the drama is over and you made it through to the other side unscathed. May you have a Happy New Year too!

Readers: I want to wish Ruth, Evelyn, Harris, Anna, Peter, and all of my overseas friends a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! And to everyone else a safe, fun and joyous New Year’s Eve Celebration!

It’s been an entertaining, enlightening, depressing, interesting, inspiring, caring, troubling, communicating, self-analyzing, unyielding, loving, frustrating, encouraging, hating, revealing, being, motivating, emoting, admiring, judging, understanding, listening, disparaging, appreciating, observing, dedicating, year.

Goodbye 2010…

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michelle

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Good morning!

I was going to blog something else this morning but hey why not post the most controversial topic happening in the airwaves, on the net, and evidently here too:

Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick ‘Should Have Been Executed’ (VIDEO)

Tucker Carlson filled in for Sean Hannity Tuesday night on Fox News and made a shocking claim: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick should be executed.

Carlson led a panel discussion pegged to President Obama’s recent phone call with the Eagles owner, in which he applauded the Eagles for giving Vick a second chance following his time in jail over his dogfighting scandal.

But Carlson is not as forgiving as Obama or the Eagles.

“I’m a Christian, I’ve made mistakes myself, I believe fervently in second chances,” Carlson said. “But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should’ve been executed for that. He wasn’t, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs? Kind of beyond the pale.”

Readers: I know you have more to say…so say it here.  The forum is open. Blog me your thoughts.

9:34 AM: Hmm..Just caught this on the Maddow Blog and wanted to add it to my post today. Worth the read:

Melissa Harris-Perry would like to add (and does)

On her blog at the Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry expands on her point last night about Michael Vick, racial history and animal rights. She writes, in part:

“Not only have animals been used as weapons against black people, but many African Americans feel that the suffering of animals evokes more empathy and concern among whites than does the suffering of black people. For example, in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina dozens of people sent me a link to an image of pets being evacuated on an air conditioned bus. This image was a sickening juxtaposition to the conditions faced by tens of thousands of black residents trapped by the storm and it provoked great anger and pain for those who sent it to me.

“I sensed that same outrage in the responses of many black people who heard Tucker Carlson call for Vick’s execution as punishment for his crimes. It was a contrast made more raw by the recent decision to give relatively light sentences to the men responsible for thedeath of Oscar Grant. Despite agreeing that Vick’s acts were horrendous, somehow the Carlson’s moral outrage seemed misplaced. It also seemed profoundly racialized. For example, Carlson did not call for the execution of BP executives despite their culpability in the devastation of Gulf wildlife. He did not denounce the Supreme Court for their decision in US v. Stevens (April 2010) which overturned a portion of the 1999 Act Punishing Depictions of Animal Cruelty. After all with this “crush” decision the Court seems to have validated a marketplace for exactly the kinds of crimes Vick was convicted of committing. For many observers, the decision to demonize Vick seems motivated by something more pernicious than concern for animal welfare. It seems to be about race.

“It is into this murky racial history that President Obama inadvertently waded this week. Whatever the quality (or lack thereof) of his argument about incarceration and its lifelong effects on those who serve time, I suspect President could not be heard over the din of emotion, anxiety, and history around race and animals in this country. Last night I found myself similarly unable to articulate the difficult and complex relationships that can make it so difficult to hear one another across this divide. My goal was not to defend Vick nor to condemn him, but to try to understand our very different national reactions to him.”

Do yourself a favor and read Dr. Harris-Perry’s full post. You’ll feel smarter when you’re done.

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Brenda: Oh how true that is. :)

Zenetta: And a Happy New Year to you as well!

Hi Suzanne: I like it and I agree. Here is an excerpt, somewhat in the same vein but of a different perspective, from one of my fave authors:

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

~Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization

What do you think?

Oh…and I got your e-mail. I’m pleased to hear that you are reading, enjoying the topics, and finding the info useful too! And so happy to hear that you are living a pretty stress free life. :) I try to live my life stress free, but it has been challenging these past few years.

Anyway, congratulations to your parents for their long and successful marriage – that is just so wonderful and too cool. Yes, Doug and I are still in the EB, with our one and only four-legged child, Lucy. However, I would love to move back to San Francisco some day soon. We’ll see…

Again, so nice to see you here.

And by the way, and this is to all of my Readers too: It is best to make a comment on the most current day even if you are commenting on a past blog post. I will always see the comments through admin, but my readers usually don’t go back to the previous day to read, not to mention anything even further back.  So your comment might be missed which is not a good thing. :) In order to keep the conversations contemporaneous, please make your comment on the most current day and refer to the blog post, if necessary, to which you are commenting on. I HOPE that is clear.

Bye bye for now…

Peace & Love: “Live it, Give it”

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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