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Women be aware….if you don’t support gay women, and their right to gay marriage…

Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends (VIDEO)

Earlier this month, College Humor released a video with an ultimatum for all the straight guys out there: vote in favor of marriage equality, or gay men are going to start marrying your girlfriends.

But Unsolicited Project has taken things a step further by giving straight women the same tough love. They need to adjust their politics, or say goodbye to all their precious boyfriends.

Tuni: I asked the questions about women but didn’t address the questions about men, such as what you broached. Yes…Where is the prosecution of this sick men?! They should die a slow death in front of their peers, with tiny needles sticking inside their wee wee weapons, with their balls cut off and bleeding to death. An eye for an eye…that’s how I’ve always been. Especially when I am seething from the brutality of men towards women.

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Readers: Funny. You know this could happen though. Gay women would be the perfect mate for straight. Men would never have to worry about them cheating with their friends or any another man for that matter. And what is a man’s biggest fantasy? Hello…two (or more) women having sex. The only threat or competition a man has is if she leaves him for another woman. So girls…support your sisters or… :)

Zen Lill: Happy New Year to you!

Tuni: An eye for an eye.

Zora: My thoughts exactly.

Clayton: You stupid fuck. I’m so glad the girls of this blog spoke up – I wouldn’t expect anything less. Why do women need more protection? Wha’at?! Hello open your eyes – MEN are the ones doing the abuse, the perps, the rapists, abusers, etc…whatever you want to call them, they’re sick MEN. Don’t pretend you don’t know. I take that back, you’re not stupid – you know. You are pussy of a man (and I don’t even like calling you that name because a pussy is a good thing) pulling what’s equal to the “race” card – pulling the “women” card.

Ugh…I’m done with you. I’m out of here.

The forum is now open – Blog me.

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Good morning.

This girl has been on my mind when I go to sleep at night and when I wake up. I just can’t seem to get the vision of her out of my head, imagining what the last few hours of her life must’ve been like. I’m speaking of the young girl from India who weeks ago was brutally beaten and raped by 6 men on a bus…and eventually taken by death while struggling to survive in the hospital. She died from a heart attack, and the fact that her body could not handle the disgusting abuse from having a metal pole shoved inside of her ruining her organs and ripping out her intestines. That is the sick reality of it, from the abuse of sick men in a country where incidents such as these recur with painful regularity.

Where is the love of women? Where is the protection of women?

Not in India, and it is certainly not showing up in our own country. Yesterday the GOP let women down once again.

House GOP Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed By Senate Die Without A Vote

WASHINGTON — Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate’s 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native American women.

“The House leadership would not bring it up, just like they wouldn’t bring up funding for Sandy [hurricane damage] last night,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a key backer of the Senate version of the bill, in an interview with HuffPost. “I think they are still so kowtowing to the extreme on the right that they’re not even listening to the moderates, and particularly the women, in their caucus who are saying they support this.”

In April, the Senate with bipartisan support passed a version of VAWA that extended protections to three groups of domestic violence victims who had not been covered by the original law, but House Republicans refused to support the legislation with those provisions, saying the measures were politically driven. Instead, they passed their own VAWA bill without the additional protections. In recent weeks, however, even some House Republicans who voted for the pared-down House bill have said they would now support the broader Senate bill — and predicted it would pass if Republican leaders let it come to the floor for a vote.

“I absolutely would support the Senate bill,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told HuffPost in late December, speculating that other House Republicans, namely GOP congresswomen, “are very supportive of that.”

Asked if he thought the Senate bill would pass in the House if it came up for a vote, Cole replied, “My judgment is yes.”

Last spring, only two of the 25 House Republican women — Reps. Judy Biggert (Ill.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.). — opposed the House VAWA reauthorization, on the grounds that it didn’t go far enough. But in the last couple of weeks, some others signaled they would now support the broader Senate bill.

“I think that we should be very open-minded about the Senate provisions,” said Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.).

“I would be in that category of being open-minded to that,” said Rep. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had been guiding House negotiations on the matter, huddling with Republican congresswomen last month and even working directly with Biden to try to get a deal. House-Senate talks appeared to have broken down over House Republicans’ refusal to accept a key protection for Native American women that was included in the Senate bill.

“Majority Leader Cantor worked hard seeking to move the bill forward so we can protect victims and prosecute offenders,” said Cantor spokesman Doug Heye.

Murray said she is “absolutely” planning to reintroduce the bill in 2013. If the Republican Party is concerned about its relationship with women, she added, it should “put that concern to action.”

“They have the opportunity to do it now,” Murray said. “They have the opportunity to take up this bill and show women and men that they understand that women’s rights are important.”

Readers: We have women in India screaming and protesting for protection. And yet we still have women here voting for republicans, men who don’t give a damn about our sisters.(!) I am so sick of the GOP’s excuses, saying that the reason they are not supporting something is because it is politically driven. They would never use this term if it was something affecting their own livelihood. But when it comes to women…oh they can wait.

How much more will republican women take from their men before they say it is enough, and leave the party who cares little about women, a party who only wants to control them? Really, I want to hear from you. What excuse do you have? Because the women in India have had enough. They are brutalized everyday. Don’t think that if men here had the chance to rape as they please, they wouldn’t jump on the opportunity here to abuse and rape any woman…OTW or white. Are you going to give them the opportunity? Where is the support to protect our sisters?

Blog me.

Carlos: Thanks for taking the article and breaking it down into simple logic and fact. Obama is killing the GOP. They would support him more if he was a inept president, one that didn’t outshine all the past presidents and give OTW’s HOPE that they too have a chance to be in the White House.  Yep, they would’ve loved it if he only had lasted one term – Obama – his presidency was just a “fluke.” But the fact that he got voted in again for a second term and has now proved once again that he is far superior to his 43 previous white predecessors, is just unbearable to the GOP.

OTW’s now know that it wasn’t just a “fluke” that Obama won the first time around. Now they know…they have the confidence, that this can be done again by an OTW. The repubs can’t stand that fact alone. They want no OTW to ever think that this could happen again. God forbid another OTW in the White House?! No!! Oh…but it can and it will, and the thought that it could be again is just unfathomable. Why else would they do everything in their power, including ruining our country and the world economy, to stop Obama.

On a side note…I’m going to give Lawrence O’Donnell a plug again because last night I watched The Last Word and I thought his rewrite segment “Why it was BFD for Republicans to raise taxes” was exceptionally perceptive. O’Donnell knows what it is like to deal with Repubs on a daily basis – he did it himself. A good watch if you want more clarity on Obama’s brilliance.

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!

My mother brought this write to my attention. Thanks mom.

Bosses Can Fire Hot Workers For Being ‘Irresistible’: All-Male Court

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The court ruled 7-0 that bosses can fire employees they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees have not engaged in flirtatious behavior or otherwise done anything wrong. Such firings may be unfair, but they are not unlawful discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act because they are motivated by feelings and emotions, not gender, Justice Edward Mansfield wrote.

An attorney for Fort Dodge dentist James Knight said the decision, the first of its kind in Iowa, is a victory for family values because Knight fired Melissa Nelson in the interest of saving his marriage, not because she was a woman.

But Nelson’s attorney said Iowa’s all-male high court, one of only a handful in the nation, failed to recognize the discrimination that women see routinely in the workplace.

“These judges sent a message to Iowa women that they don’t think men can be held responsible for their sexual desires and that Iowa women are the ones who have to monitor and control their bosses’ sexual desires,” said attorney Paige Fiedler. “If they get out of hand, then the women can be legally fired for it.”

Nelson, 32, worked for Knight for 10 years, and he considered her a stellar worker. But in the final months of her employment, he complained that her tight clothing was distracting, once telling her that if his pants were bulging that was a sign her clothes were too revealing, according to the opinion.

He also once allegedly remarked about her infrequent sex life by saying, “that’s like having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it.”

Knight and Nelson – both married with children – started exchanging text messages, mostly about personal matters, such as their families. Knight’s wife, who also worked in the dental office, found out about the messages and demanded Nelson be fired. The Knights consulted with their pastor, who agreed that terminating Nelson was appropriate.

Knight fired Nelson and gave her one month’s severance. He later told Nelson’s husband that he worried he was getting too personally attached and feared he would eventually try to start an affair with her.

Nelson was stunned because she viewed the 53-year-old Knight as a father figure and had never been interested in starting a relationship, Fiedler said.

Nelson filed a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, arguing she would not have been terminated if she was male. She did not allege sexual harassment because Knight’s conduct may not have risen to that level and didn’t particularly offend her, Fiedler said.

Knight argued Nelson was fired not because of her gender, but because her continued employment threatened his marriage. A district judge agreed, dismissing the case before trial, and the high court upheld that ruling.

Mansfield noted that Knight had an all-female workforce and Nelson was replaced by a woman.

He said the decision was in line with state and federal court rulings that found workers can be fired for relationships that cause jealousy and tension within a business owner’s family. One such case from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a business owner’s firing of a valued employee who was seen by his wife as a threat to their marriage. In that case, the fired employee had engaged in flirtatious conduct.

Mansfield said allowing Nelson’s lawsuit would stretch the definition of discrimination to allow anyone fired over a relationship to file a claim arguing they would not have been fired but for their gender.

Knight’s attorney, Stuart Cochrane, said the court got it right. The decision clarified that bosses can make decisions showing favoritism to a family member without committing discrimination; in this case, by allowing Knight to honor his wife’s wishes to fire Nelson, he said.

Knight is a very religious and moral individual, and he sincerely believed that firing Nelson would be best for all parties, he said.

“While there was really no fault on the part of Mrs. Nelson, it was just as clear the decision to terminate her was not related to the fact that she was a woman,” he said. “The motives behind Dr. Knight terminating Mrs. Nelson were quite clear: He did so to preserve his marriage.

“I don’t view this as a decision that was either pro-women or opposed to women rights at all. In my view, this was a decision that followed the appropriate case law.”

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Readers: So a woman can now be fired because her employer finds her too “irresistible?” Is this starting to sound like we’re not in America but the Middle East? A man can’t control his sexual urges because he finds a woman “irresistible”, so he puts the responsibility on the woman and if she doesn’t hold up her end by “monitoring” her bosses “feelings,” and “sexual desires,” she can legally be fired.  Wh’at?! What’s next, women will be required to don a burka because he can’t control himself?

This is absolutely crazy. A woman has to deal with enough discrimination, sexual harrassment, etc. Now a woman has to deal with managing whether her boss is going to get turned on or not. Once again, the woman, the victim here, is blamed because the man can’t handle his sexual desires and is afraid he might do something. Sick.

Knight making such remarks as “…if his pants were bulging that was a sign her clothes were too revealing,” is not something I would expect to hear coming from a man who claims he is a “religious and moral individual,” not to mention, saying these kind of remarks is sexual harassment.  No man who claims to be “moral” would say that sort of thing to a woman, a married woman. Not sure when Nelson looked upon Knight as a ”father figure,’ but I can’t imagine her thoughts remained the same after he made those sexual comments to her. Nelson should have sued Knight for sexual harassment as well.

And what about Knight’s wife? Where’s the support of women? Once again, the woman is blaming the innocent woman, when she should be looking at her husband, and telling him to get it together and get control of himself and his lust. Here the wife is working along side of the husband and he is making sexual remarks to his employee, Nelson, and the wife is blaming Nelson because her husband can’t control himself. Hello…your husband, a “moral married man,” shouldn’t be making such remarks to a woman. This is sexual harassment.

This “all-male” ruling in favor of firing this woman because of this man’s shortcomings shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Not only is the innocent blamed, but in my opinion this is just an excuse to give the man free reign to do whatever. He can sexually harass a woman and then if the woman doesn’t give in to his desires, his ego can get her fired because she was just too “irresistible.” This gives a man an option to fire a woman for whatever reason because she was too “irresistible.” Who’s going to argue with what turns a man on? A peek of an ankle? A lock of hair sweeping across her eye?

Yeah…firing Nelson was good for “all parties”. Right. “Preserve the marriage.” Yeah right…until the next pretty thing comes along and screws it all up again. Oh yeah – No problem, we’ll just fire her too.

What’s next? A man is walking down the street, sees an “irresistible” woman and because he can’t control his sexual desires, he can legally have a police officer arrest her? How far does this go?

Thoughts? Blog me. 

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!

Thanks for all of the Christmas wishes – I HOPE all of you enjoyed the holiday too.

I too am saddened and upset about the shooting of the firemen – men whose jobs are to save others, were now targeted by a man who does what “he likes doing best – killing people.” I feel like lately all I’m doing is blogging about bad things and continually sending good wishes to the families of victims killed in horrific acts. Really…when is all of this killing going to be enough? When are we finally going to do something to help stop this madness?

I read your comments. I too read and heard Sirota’s comments on CNN, and I agree with him. In case some of you are wondering and haven’t read the write, here it is:

Salon’s David Sirota To Don Lemon: If Majority Of Mass Shooters Wasn’t White, ‘Conversation Would Be Much Uglier’ (VIDEO)

Salon writer David Sirota appeared on Don Lemon’s CNN show on Saturday to discuss that the majority of mass shooters in the United States have been white.

In Sirota’s recent article titled “Time To Profile White Men?” the Salon writer argued that nuanced conversations that grew out of the tragic Newtown shootings on mental health and gun control is due to the race of the shooter.

He wrote, “But the point here is that those tempered and nuanced conversations are only able to happen because the demographic at the center of it all is white guys.”

Speaking with CNN’s Don Lemon, Sirota said, “I think we should ask the question why is America 30 percent white guys, and 70 percent of the shootings in the last many decades have been at the hands of white guys … I do think it’s interesting to note that had 70 percent of mass shooters been let’s say Arab or African-American men, I think the conversation would be … much uglier.”

Lemon summarized one of the points Sirota made in his recent article. “If the suspect or the shooter was a black male [he'd be labeled as a] thug; Muslim, [a] terrorist,” Lemon said.

“Yeah,” Sirota said. “And and I think that it’s good we’re having a nuanced conversation about all sorts of things — mental illness, gun control — but I hope that the next time something bad happens … that if it’s not a white guy, that we remember that we shouldn’t ascribe to entire groups … the bad actions of individuals. Because we’re not doing that right now, and I’m not saying that we should, but I think we should remember that the reason we’re not, is because it’s a form of white privilege.”

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Readers: Did you click over to Sirota’s recent article “Time to Profile White Men?”. If not I thought I would make it easy for you. Here’s the write:

Time to profile white men?

Yesterday, during a cable news discussion of gun violence and the Newtown school shooting, I dared mention a taboo truism. During a conversation on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” I said that because most of the mass shootings in America come at the hands of white men, there would likely be political opposition to initiatives that propose to use those facts to profile the demographic group to which these killers belong. I suggested that’s the case because as opposed to people of color or, say, Muslims, white men as a subgroup are in such a privileged position in our society that they are the one group that our political system avoids demographically profiling or analytically aggregating in any real way. Indeed, unlike other demographic, white guys as a group are never thought to be an acceptable topic for any kind of critical discussion whatsoever, even when there is ample reason to open up such a discussion.

My comment was in response to U.S. Rep. James Langevin (D) floating the idea of employing the Secret Service for such profiling, and I theorized that because the profiling would inherently target white guys, the political response to such an idea might be similar to the Republican response to the 2009 Homeland Security report looking, in part, at the threat of right-wing terrorism. As you might recall, the same GOP that openly supportsprofiling — and demonizing — Muslims essentially claimed that the DHS report was unacceptable because its focus on white male terrorist groups allegedly stereotyped (read: offensively profiled) conservatives.

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Should that question even be a question? Look at the stats of white men killing. If other races are “profiled”, shouldn’t white men be “profiled” too? Thoughts? Blog me.

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

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Good morning!

Black meteorologist fired for responding to racist commenter who said she ‘need to wear a wig or grow some more hair‘

• Louisiana station said she violated an unwritten social media policy

 

 

A black meteorologist was fired from an ABC affiliate in Louisiana after she responded to a racist comment left by a viewer about her short hair.

Rhonda Lee was fired from her job at KTBS in Shreveport because she wrote a lengthy, considerate response to a viewer who took issue with the way that she chose to cut her hair, saying that she ‘needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair.’

The viewer wrote ‘the black lady that does the news is a very nice lady… im not sure if she is a cancer patient. but still its not something myself that i think looks good on tv.’

The commenter identified himself as Emmitt Vascocu, who is a retired white man who lives in the area, and went on to justify his criticism saying that other hairstyles that don’t appeal to people are rarely shown on television.

‘What about letting someone a male have waist long hair do the news.what about that,’ he wrote.

Ms Lee responded on October 1, the same day that he made his remark, writing ‘–I am the “black lady” to which you are referring. I’m sorry you don’t like my ethnic hair.’

‘And no I don’t have cancer. I’m a non-smoking, 5’3, 121 lbs, 25 mile a week running, 37.5 year old woman, and I’m in perfectly healthy physical condition,’ she continued.

Healthy: The commenter said that perhaps Ms Lee has short hair because she has cancer, but she responded saying that was not the case and she was very healthy, even running marathons in aid of cancer charities

Ethnic choice: Ms Lee defended her hairstyle saying that she purposefully chooses to keep it short and feels she is a role model for young African American girls

‘I am very proud of my African-American ancestry which includes my hair. For your edification: traditionally our hair doesn’t grow downward. It grows upward.

‘Many Black women use strong straightening agents in order to achieve a more European grade of hair and that is their choice. However in my case I don’t find it necessary. I’m very proud of who I am and the standard of beauty I display.

She went on to say that she thought that her choice displayed the variety of beauty that the mix of cultures in America allows, and that she feels she is a role model to young ethnic girls by refusing to conform.

She concluded her measured response by signing off with a polite ‘Thank you for your comment and have a great weekend and thank for watching.’

Commenter: Emmitt Vascocu gave his name when he suggested Ms Lee should wear a wig because her natural hair is not what people expect on television

The Clutch reports that Mr Vascocu went on to say that he was not racist but ‘this world has…certain standerd (sic). if youve come from a world of being poor are you going to dress in rags?’

The online interaction between Ms Lee and Mr Vascocu occured on October 1, and she was fired shortly after the incident.

Her news director and general manager at KTBS said that she violated an unwritten company policy on social media. Ms Lee feels that the decision was motivated by racism, however.

Appearing on CNN’s Starting Point on Wednesday morning, Ms Lee told Soledad O’Brien ‘whereas other people are given platforms, I was given a pink slip’.

A petition has been started in her honor, calling for the station to give Ms Lee her job back, and so far it has 534 signatures.

Mr Vascocu has also taken some form of a stand, as he posted a veiled message on his Facebook page a few weeks after the incident.

Rife with spelling mistakes, he posted: ‘To all in ciber land.

I have Dementia an also brain damage to my temprealobe. so in saying this if i say something that hurts someone bare in mind that i have this problem.For this is not a good thing ive lost alot of good memoreys.it effects my spelling it effects my mood and many othier things.’

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Readers: The commenter, Vascocu made a racist comment. I see absolutely nothing wrong with how Lee responded. In fact I thought she responded quite graciously, when she could’ve easily been otherwise.

And I don’t think she should’ve been fired by KTBS  - If one has the risk of being fired from an “unwritten social media policy”, then don’t you think the policy should be in writing, if it is that important that one could get fired from not honoring this “unwritten policy”? I agree with Lee – she could’ve been given a platform instead of a pink slip – bad move from KTBS. Now who’s the racist one?

With respect to Mr. Vascocu, his recent comments after the fact tells me he’s trying to “cover his ass”.

I just had to add one more thing that’s been bugging me as I am perusing the net reading…Lee was fired for replying courteously, while Matt Lauer was allowed to be rude and obnoxious to Anne Hathaway after she inadvertently showed her vagina when exiting a limo. And I don’t hear Lauer getting fired.

Thoughts? Blog me.

Have A Great Weekend Everyone!

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