Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 10th, 2012
Good morning!
Congratulations Wonderful Women Of The World, Oprah Winfrey and Jaycee Dugard!
Oprah and Jaycee Dugard honored at the DVF Awards
By ALICIA QUARLES | Associated Press – 19 mins ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey was embraced in a hug by longtime friend Diane von Furstenberg as she took to the stage to accept a “Lifetime Leadership” honor at the third annual DVF awards.
“She is the most formidable person I have ever met in my life,” the designer and humanitarian said of Winfrey at the event, held Friday night at the United Nations. “What is extraordinary about Oprah is that she has done so much and yet she is still a little girl. She is still very pure and you can make her cry and laugh so quickly.”
Upon accepting the award, Winfrey was expected to talk about her career, but instead used the majority of her time to praise another honoree, Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted when she was 11 years old and held in captivity for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. She was raped and gave birth to two children before she was eventually rescued. Her captors were convicted.
“I wanted to have the opportunity to meet her and to tell her how much her story and her life meant to me,” she explained. “I said to Diane, ‘I know Diane Sawyer should be the one to introduce her, but would you please let me do it.’” Winfrey went on to thank Sawyer, who was also in attendance, and praised the television special she did with Dugard.
“Jaycee Dugard, I am so proud of you, your courage, your ability to press onward toward the future and toward a more victorious life for yourself and for using your courage your strength and your power to show the world that you care,” Winfrey said.
Following Winfrey’s introduction, Dugard took to the stage, getting emotional as she thanked her mother for never giving up hope of finding her. She also spoke about her JAYC Foundation, which aims to give support to families dealing with abduction and other tragedies.
“My hope is to be remembered for what I do and not for what happened to me,” Dugard told the audience.
Earlier in the evening, presenter Jessica Alba showed off an acorn necklace she was given by Dugard. The necklace represents Dugard’s charity.
The DVF awards honor women who are courageous and fight for justice. Artist Panmela Castro, who battles against domestic violence; Chouchou Namegabe, who fights for women’s issues in her native Congo; and Layli Miller-Muro who founded the Tahirih Justice Center, which protects women from human rights abuses, were also honored.
Each honoree receives a $50,000 award from the foundation.
The awards were part of the festivities surrounding the Women In the World conference.
W*W*O*T*W
Herman: You must be a newbie. This is a girl’s blog but of course all are welcome to read and comment. However, I wouldn’t say many of my articles are biased against men. But yes, I do point out the horrific things men do. It’s pretty easy as there are many. Somebody’s got to.
You have no reason to complain – you’re a man – you are part of group that created the way our society is today. Can we really say that societies ills are because of women? If you think this you’re blind and not living in the real world. Your one of those pansy ass men feeling sorry for themselves because life isn’t fair. Boo hoo for you.
Get real. Is there a “war against men”, like there is a “war against women” happening across the world? I don’t think so. Did you read my “Just noticing…” post a few weeks ago? I suggest you do.
In short, “When men stop their horrific acts of cruelty and violence toward women, I’ll stop highlighting the atrocities. When men make huge worldwide changes and begin to support, love, and respect women, I’ll start writing about that. Until then, plan on it being the same same around here. If you don’t like it, don’t read here.
Or better yet, get so sick of reading what women endure everyday, by the hands of men, that you do something to change the men’s behavior towards women. The choice is yours; once again you’re in control. Here’s where you can begin. I’m posting an article from the Women In the World website:
Molly Melching: Enlist the Men!
27 minutes ago by Jesse Ellison
After decades of working to end the brutal tradition of female genital cutting in Senegal, the human-rights activist realized: men are key to affecting real change in the region.
Amid three days of celebrating women, Sheryl WuDunn—who with her husband,Nicholas Kristoff, authored the book Half the Sky—reminded the audience on Saturday morning that when it comes to real change, women can’t go it alone. “We need men in anything we do to try to elevate women,” she said.
The panelists proved her point. Molly Melching was born in the U.S. but has lived in Senegal for nearly 40 years. As the founder of the organization Tostan, she has been instrumental in helping to end an insidious tradition: female genital cutting.
The key, Melching said, has been to take a human-rights approach, and focus on education. “As women started learning their rights and learned about the harm of not just female genital cutting but also child marriage, they started standing up and defending their rights,” she said. “I cannot emphasize enough the importance of women learning their rights.”
“But we made a mistake, a big mistake,” Melching continued. Her organization was focused on women’s health, she explained, which made the men start asking, “what about us?”
Real progress wasn’t made until the organization started to include men in its efforts. One of them, Imam Demba Diawara, who is a village chief in Senegal, proved critical. Cutting, he said, with Melching acting as a translator, was an ancient tradition that his ancestors practiced. “We never questioned it,” he said. “We just followed it. As the head of a family who I love, every one of them had gone through this practice. Now it is very painful for me to acknowledge that this was the case.”
Through Tostan, the imam began to learn about some of the harmful effects of the practice. He sought the advice of other Muslim leaders, and was reassured that the tradition was not a religious obligation. With the encouragement of his family, he began reaching out and helping to educate others about the dangers of cutting. Now, he has been to some 378 communities, working with men and women alike to help end the practice. Five thousand villages have abandoned it altogether, and Melching says that by 2015, it might be eliminated from Senegal altogether.
It’s a tremendous accomplishment in just one generation. “It is working,” the imam said. “But we still have a lot left to do. I am an old man. I need replacements.”
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Men: Did you read the last sentence? Now’s your chance. Change can happen so much quicker for women if the men cared enough and got involved.
Readers: To watch the Women In The World Summit Live, Click here.
Clark: I’m not going to be as nice as MK. What I want to say is, “Shut the fuck up”. You’re obviously another one of those pansy ass men who have to complain and point out, “Oh look at how many women commit blah blah blah…” – Were being hurt too! What a ginny woman – “Man up” will ya. See above article.
Social Butterfly: I loved it as well. Thanks for sharing. “Bad Romance” was awesome. Again, Thank you.
Ethiopian Woman: Only a woman knows. Thank you.
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March 10th, 2012 at 10:34 am
When Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat and launched the Montgomery bus boycott, it wasn’t just a spontaneous decision. She’d been trained in nonviolent direct action at a place called the Highlander Center. And the brave folks who organized the freedom rides and the lunch-counter sit-ins had similar training.
Now, from the Wisconsin workers who took over their state capitol to Occupy Wall Street, there’s a movement stirring in America focused on the massive inequality that’s destroying our country. And it’s once again using direct action to change the conversation. To help the 99% movement succeed, we want to kick off the spring by training 100,000 people in nonviolent direct action, in the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks—and pave the way for a wave of progressive, nonviolent direct action like the country hasn’t seen in 50 years.
Our goal this spring is to provide the same kind of nonviolence training that transformed the civil rights movement—but at a scale no one’s ever dreamed of.
If we can train enough people, the 99% Spring could be filled with the kind of bold, highly visible, compelling acts of peaceful direct action and civil disobedience that made the civil rights movement impossible to ignore.
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen an amazing response to this idea. A huge army of volunteers from unions, community organizations, and environmental groups, alongside local MoveOn volunteers, are preparing to host trainings in hundreds of cities and planning massive protests nationwide. Students are organizing for spring mobilizations on campuses everywhere.
We’ve got a plan to help make sure all of this happens on a scale that’s impossible to ignore. We’re working with movement leaders and cultural figures to spread the word online and in the media. We’re recruiting everyday people, who have never done anything like this before, to join trainings in union halls, churches, living rooms, and community centers all over the country. We’re mobilizing nationwide to bring big new crowds to campaigns everywhere using nonviolence to confront corporate greed, fight back against the foreclosure crisis, and more. And then, on Tax Day, we’re ramping up fast for a huge day of direct action all across the country to send an unmistakable message to Washington.
From Occupy Wall Street to the most important moments of the civil rights movement—the freedom rides, the Montgomery bus boycott, the lunch-counter sit-ins—peaceful direct action has turned the tables on the powerful and changed the course of history. This spring, millions of us could do it again. But we need your help to lay the crucial groundwork over the next few months.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:36 am
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NEW VIDEO: 2012 – Year of the Woman
While Rush Limbaugh and the Republicans wage a war on women that aims to roll back healthcare coverage and block access to contraception, Democrats are committed to stopping them in their tracks.
As our new video declares, Democrats believe it’s time to end the culture wars and get back to work for the middle class. It’s quite a stark contrast to Limbaugh and his Grand Old Party.
In MA, Scott Brown Runs From His Anti-Women Blunt-Brown Amendment
Scott Brown is trying to run away from his support of his amendment that would have blocked access to basic health care services, while at the same time attempting to blame Elizabeth Warren for the political uproar around his extreme measure.
The Warren campaign said it best – “He paid for a radio ad, wrote a newspaper column, taped a video, and did numerous interviews all talking about his legislation that threatens women’s healthcare. Now that people are outraged, he wants to change the subject, claiming he’s focusing on job creation.”
GOP Fears Long Primary Will Cost Them Senate
Republicans have long seen 2012 as a chance to win back the White House and the Senate. But now, Republicans are worried that their long, drawn-0ut, nasty presidential primary will cost them the opportunity to expand power in Washington, according to The Hill.
What’s bad news for Republicans is good news for Democrats. “In every primary, we’ve seen just how disappointed Republicans are in their candidates. The longer the Republican primary goes, the longer we have to continue to build,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:40 am
I found this on the web. It is a video of Obama at Harvard in 1991.
Obama protesting at Harvard in 1991.
Barack Obama in a 1990 video at Harvard protests in favor of the cause of Professor Derek Bell and the hiring of more minority faculty members.
http://www.ktla.com/news/nationworld/sns-viral-video-obama-harvard-protest-1991,0,4171557.htmlstory
March 10th, 2012 at 10:47 am
You said it right Michelle: Change can happen so much quicker for women if the men cared enough and got involved.
Ensler makes the same point, not all men hit women but those men that don’t hit them, don’t confront the men they know that do.
Those wife beaters often raise wife beaters. By not getting involved the status quo continues.
Daylight savings begins today in the US,
If you are a democrat, don’t forgot to set your clock forward one hour.
If you are a republican, don’t forgot to set it back 200 years.
/SB
March 10th, 2012 at 10:48 am
OMG, the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Brownback is surely contemplating cancelling suffrage for women. The giant, amazing egos of these MEN.
ALL THESE WHITE MEN protecting us from ourselves. How can people be soooo wrong about soooo many things and be sooooo certain they’ve got it right and those who disagree need to be protected from themselves.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:50 am
why is it alway WHITE MEN… stop with the racism fool
March 10th, 2012 at 10:51 am
I’m white and not a fool. How often do you see black men or any women engaged in this sort of hunting?
Of this sort of not even subtle determination to beat down women in this way? and Blacks, the elderly, students subjected to the sorts of assault on voting rights, insurance rights, wage rights, and every other right they can think up.
(This is not, however, meant to be sexist. I don’t say all white men because many, many men are engaged in fighting back.)
March 10th, 2012 at 10:52 am
According to the lst amendment, govenment is supposed to remain neutral on questions about religion. It is not to interfere with nor should it promote religious doctrine as the law of the land.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Women of America! You have a WAR on your hands! Better get started!
March 10th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Sound as though they are all in the back pockets of the insurance corps!! Women >>> we need to fight back and vote every republican in this nation out of office >>> NOW!!
March 10th, 2012 at 10:56 am
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
March 10th, 2012 at 11:13 am
When I saw all those white men deciding for me as US senators what life should be for me as a woman, it occurred to me that I was looking at self-hating gay men.
Those men are punishing women because they are too afraid to be openly gay.
Ellen
March 10th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Sadly, if they are gay, they deny it vigorously, and they will do anything to keep their girl-people in state, and subjucated in every way they can – legal and illegal.
People in other countries must be stunned at how backward this country is and the incredible rules that are passed in the name of religion.
What are these men – and their token females – so afraid of? I simply don’t understand their drive.
Why are they theatened? What assault on their manhood do they imagine is a result of freedom of choice? (oops. answered my own question.)
March 10th, 2012 at 11:21 am
5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans.
But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).
March 10th, 2012 at 11:25 am
LOL! Social Butterfly.
March 10th, 2012 at 11:33 am
HOW TO MAKE FITNESS FUN
I don’t have much trouble motivating myself to exercise because it makes me more relaxed and helps keep my weight where I want it to be.
My husband, however, would rather do just about anything than work out even though he knows (and says) that he’d feel better if he did.
So I have been searching for a Father’s Day gift that could make exercising less boring — or dare I say, even fun — for him… and I’ve had fun looking!
There are some clever new fitness “toys” that are effective, easy to use and affordable. Not only can they keep track of how far you’ve walked or run, they also monitor your “energy in” (calories eaten) compared with “energy out” (calories burned)… measure improvement in your overall fitness level… and generate ideas to make your workouts more challenging and interesting.
And they’re lots more entertaining than your basic, boring pedometer…
FitBit: This two-inch-long, half-inch-wide electronic clip-on device is actually just a high-tech pedometer with accelerometers (motion sensors that detect movement in three directions — similar to ones used for Nintendo Wii) to measure your movement.
On your belt, in your pocket or attached to a wristband, it measures how many steps you’ve taken, how many calories you’ve burned, how active you are in general, and so on.
Best thing about it: You can upload your data from the device to the company’s Web site to easily track your activity level. There’s a calorie database of 50,000 foods to track your caloric intake, too.
Bonus feature: It also can track how long and how efficiently you sleep, including whether you toss and turn or get up often.
Demerits: You can’t use the FitBit to track cycling or swimming because accelerometers are accurate only for walking and running.
Price: $99; access to Web site is free after purchase.
Info: http://www.FitBit.com.
Philips DirectLife: Designed to be carried in a pocket, this is another accelerometer-based device that keeps track of how much you move.
What’s cool: The purchase price includes e-mail access to DirectLife fitness coaches who can serve as personal trainers and answer such questions as “how do I set goals” or how can I improve my workouts?”
Unique: It’s waterproof.
Less cool: DirectLife can’t track calories (in or out), and there is a monthly membership fee.
Price: $99 for the device, which includes a four-month membership to the coaching service… then $12.50/month to keep the coaching feature active.
Info: http://www.DirectLife.Philips.com.
Bodybugg: The Bodybugg “personal calorie management system” is an armband that measures your skin’s galvanic response (basically, electrical conductivity due to your sweat), temperature and heat output, along with motion — all to calculate how many calories you burn throughout the day. It also works as a pedometer and is unobtrusive enough to be worn under your shirt without attracting attention.
Intriguing feature: The galvanic device makes the calorie expenditure measurement extremely accurate, and there’s an online log as well.
Not as great: It’s expensive.
Price: $249 for the device and a six-month Web-service membership, then $9.95 per month, $49.95 for six months or $79.95 for 12 months.
Info: http://www.Bodybugg.com.
Garmin FR60 (featuring ANT +): I like this fitness wristwatch because it’s a system to which you can add different features if you like.
Besides functioning as a watch, the basic unit lets you track your heart rate and calories burned… if you attach the optional wireless foot pod to your shoelaces, you can track speed and distance covered…
add a speed/cadence sensor and you can use the FR60 on your bicycle to track your pedaling speed and how fast and far you’re going… and there is also a body-composition scale you can use as you monitor your weight and body fat.
You can easily upload all this data to the Garmin Connect Web site for storage.
Even better: Garmin uses technology that is compatible with many fitness equipment manufacturers — perhaps even including some at your local gym. (Look for the words “ANT+ enabled” to see where it can be used.)
Downside: Personally, I think the watch looks too big and clunky.
Price: $99.99 for watch… $199.99 with foot pod included… $60 for bike sensor. There is no additional charge for web access.
Info: http://www.garmin.com.
Nike + iPod: The Nike + iPod Sport Kit works with iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS… plus a pair of Nike+ sneakers.
It’s basically a sensor (1.3 inches long, oval-shaped and thin) that gets placed in a special pocket in the insole of the Nike+ sneaker to track your walking and running…
it then sends data on time, distance, pace and calories burned to be stored on your iPod/iPhone.
Value added: The kit includes a catalog of suggested workouts, and you can download additional ones from Apple’s iTunes Web site.
Also, you can upload your fitness data to http://www.NikePlus.com to keep track. And since some professional fitness equipment includes Nike + connectivity, you might be able to use it with equipment at your gym.
What’s missing: There’s no calorie intake tracker.
Price: $29.
Info: http://www.Apple.com/ipod/nike. The Nike+ sneakers cost about the same as the firm’s other high-end running shoes — between $85 and $160. There’s no additional charge for web access.
Of course, the real secret to fitness costs nothing and is as low-tech as it gets: Move more.
But if adding some technology to the mix makes it more interesting or motivating, I’m all for it!
Source(s):
Wayne L. Westcott, PhD, an exercise science instructor at Quincy College and a fitness consultant with the South Shore YMCA, both in Quincy, Massachusetts. He is an expert on getting fit. He is author or coauthor of 24 fitness books.
March 10th, 2012 at 11:37 am
For those who enthusiastically backed the interventions in Afghanistan and then Iraq, the events in Syria create an acute problem.
Clearly it is not as big a problem as that being experienced by the poor people of Homs. Rather, it is a foreign policy conundrum, rooted in deep uncertainty about whether or not help should be arranged.
March 10th, 2012 at 11:44 am
Fighting Wall Street Speculators
As gas prices continue to rise, Congress must take strong action to protect consumers from speculation.
Unfortunately, Republicans have chosen to protect the interests of Wall Street speculators and oil companies by obstructing the agencies that enforce consumer protection and have repeatedly opposed Democratic efforts to end billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies enjoying record profits.
Independent reports confirm that speculators are driving up the cost of oil, hurting consumers and potentially damaging the economic recovery—not an oil shortage.
U.S. oil production is at its highest level since 2003, and millions of acres have been cleared for additional development.
Americans facing skyrocketing prices at the pump and a still fragile job market cannot afford to wait any longer for Republicans to put forth a comprehensive jobs agenda.
Today, the Department of Labor announced that the economy added 227,000 jobs in February. The report is a step in the right direction for the middle class and for small businesses, but we still have more work to do.
Democrats will continue to work with President Obama to build on today’s positive news to spur our economic growth and strengthen the middle class.
Congresswoman Pelosi joins civil rights hero Representative John Lewis in celebrating the unveiling of a stone marker that honors the slave laborers who built the U.S. Capitol.
Standing up for Women’s Health
On International Women’s Day, we mark progress made for women and the work still to be done.
We celebrate equality secured and shine a light on the dark corners where inequality remains the norm.
The past year has painted a mixed portrait of both hope and struggle for the world’s women. Three women won the Nobel Peace Prize; yet millions of mothers and daughters remained unable to reach their full potential, get an education, join the workforce, and lead their communities and nations.
In the United States, we’ve seen an attempt to silence women in the debate on women’s health and witnessed vicious and inappropriate attacks on a woman who spoke out.
Key efforts of House Republicans to undermine health care for millions of America’s women:
Voted to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood while threatening to shut down the government. (Pence Amendment to H.R 1, 2011 Vote #93, 2/18/11, H.Con.Res. 36, Vote #271, 4/14/11)
Voted three times to end the Medicare guarantee, which would disproportionately hurt women. (2011 Vote #277, 2011 Vote #382, 2011 Vote #606)
Voted to take away women’s access to a full range of health care services. (H.R. 358, 2011 Vote #789, 10/13/11)
You’re Invited!
Congress on Your Corner
Join the Office of Congresswoman Pelosi for a “Congress on Your Corner” at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) as part of their “Art of Aging Gracefully” Resource Fair.
My staff will be available to offer assistance in resolving issues with federal agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, and problems securing Social Security, Medicare or other federal benefits.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
10:00am to 2:00pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF)
3200 California Street
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Sincerely,
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March 10th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Social Butterfly: I Confront people who exhibit racsism/sexism. I have not had the opportunity lately to confront sexism lately, because my friends cherish their girlfriends/wifes.
However, recently I accepted a ride to the store from an acquaintance met at a friends house. It was Saturday and there were many Orthodox Jews walking home from temple. This acquaintance complained about all the Jews.
I told him you forgot the many blacks that also live in this neighborhood. He said, Yeah I hate the niggers too. I told him that I wish he would not use racial remarks in my presence.
Now I just met this asshole 30 min. earlier. When we returned, I told him in front of my FRIENDS that my father was black (a lie, my father is white and still alive) and my friends all went along with this.
Making this bigot feel like an idiot. That I did not take kindly to him calling me and my father niggers. He never returned to my buddies house since.
My question is, “how do you think I feel being called “white boy” by Robert RT “BIGOT” everytime he comments. I can tell you this much it is not very friggin’ good.
So besides being a women’s blog, (which is cool by my me) it also promotes racsism. That would be Robert RT and George WN.
Difference being that Roberts bigotry is accepted by most everyone here. Black Boy Robert, does not sound very pretty to me. How about YOU.
Al
March 10th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Al, I can speak for my self. Number one, I do not call all white men white boys, just as I do not call all blacks, house niggers.
However, I do fine it disingenuous those white men who, as you do protest, when it is voiced that WHITE BOYS are the cause of the sufferings of OTWs and white women.
Anyone can be a bigot, but to be a racists means you have the power to make your bigotry impact those who you are bigoted against.
Any OTW can stand up aND scream as much bigotry as he or she can utter against white America and it will have no effect upon the laws of the land that would impact on how a white person would live.
On the contrary, one bigoted white boy can change the lives of OTWs and white women for an entire state and if he is a member of the US Senate the entire country.
If you are not pretending not to be aware of this power, and are just ignorant, then let me point out a few instances to educate you.
Here are a few examples: 1. All the racist laws for the first 200 years that made the white boy America’s Affirmative Action beneficiary of entitlements none of the rest of America’s citizens got. White men own everything and have all the power today because of that Constitution that gave them that.
There is nothing special about the Constitution unless you are a white male. It gave NOTHING but lip service to the rest of America’s citizens.
White women, OTWs and most non property owning white males didn’t have the right to vote. It permitted slavery and it lofty proclamations were just that bullshit.
Only the white boy would say otherwise. It was a free ride for him at the expense of the rest of America’s inhabitants.
2. The racists laws being enacted in (pick a state) that discriminates against OTWs, Women, Gays, etc.
Every one of these laws are sponsored and enacted by white boys. So excuse me if it bothers you to hear an OTW use the term, “white boy.”
If I had my choice, I would gladly exchange the discomfort of being bothered by being called a white boy with the actuality of being discriminated against because of the color of my skin by someone who has the power to fuck up my life.
You are either severely naive or one of those in the second one third group of the white race who pretends that it isn’t as bad for the rest of us as we claim it to be. You know the ones who themselves don’t discriminate but look the other way when the first third who are declared, unrestrained racists act out their hatreds.
Let me inform you that it is every bit as injurious as we OTWs, Women, Gays, and Jews claim it is.
I may make a thousand times what you make, and Obama may be the President of the US but if either of us tried to hail a cab in 99% of America’s major cities we couldn’t get one. Your white ass can because your white boy has engineered it to be that way. It is not as those in your group want to say, the way it is.
Neither can any OTW, Woman, Gay or Jey feel assured that we could travel across our country with our families and know that we could protect our families from the terror that the racist white boy knows that he could get away with inflicting upon us and/or our loved in his bailiwick of racism.
He knows that he can get away with it and his Just-Us justice system will look the other way. How you feel that compares with your discomfort in being called a “white boy” is just inexplicable.
What irks me most is not the racist who knows what he can get away with, it is assholes like you who come off pretending to be ignorant of the intolerant situations we OTWs, Women, Gays, and Jews have to put up with from those white boys you refuse to acknowledge among your ranks.
My advice to you is to paint yourself brown and try negotiating this country, it won’t take long for you to hate the white boy too.
Please for your own credibility, drop the ginny woman sensitivity to being called a white boy, if you aren’t one, then why are you bothered?
Are you suggesting because you are not a racist or bigot that none exist? Get real.
Robert, rt
March 10th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Al, right in your neighborhood here is an example of Robert,RT’s words.
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Unarmed black teenager ‘shot dead by Neighborhood Watch’ as he went to buy candy for his brother in gated community
By HUGO GYE and DAMIEN GAYLE
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112385/Family-black-teenager-shot-dead-Neighborhood-Watch-went-buy-candy-brother-demands-justice.html#ixzz1ommTzHEy
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Wanna bet the white boy just-us-justice system lets them get away with it.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Al, you really stepped into that one. It could have been avoided by a careful reading of #6 JM and the reply by #7 OW.
I’m white, also but I don’t think Robert is calling me a white boy. I don’t think that OW would feel that way either.
Andy
March 10th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I read some of the comments from Lewis’s links. Some of the answers suggest that you made a very good point Robert,Rt.
Flores
March 10th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
AL, see what happens when you give those niggers an inch, they take a mile.
March 11th, 2012 at 1:17 am
CELEBRITY SEX SCANDALS — WHY THEY ARE GOOD FOR RELATIONSHIPS
With one salacious headline after another, everyone seems to be talking about sex and, for better or worse, we know a lot about exactly what certain well-known people like to do with their partners… and others.
But, says life coach and Daily Health News contributor Lauren Zander, while we may be getting way too much information about famous folks’ sex lives, many of us are not sharing enough about our own.
Lauren believes this reticence is because our culture has built a strong taboo around the specifics of sex, muting our ability to talk about this very natural act…
and she wonders why people are willing to accept such a great gap between the physical intimacy involved in making love and the emotional distance we create when we won’t discuss how it makes us feel or, frankly, the physical preferences we find most pleasurable.
“It’s okay to ask for a back rub or a fun movie — both of which are pleasurable — but we have difficulty asking to be held in a certain way,” she points out.
“Sex is riddled with all sorts of unresolved fears, and people don’t know how to tell the truth about these feelings.” If you can resolve those fears and learn to speak up, it can lead to a far closer relationship with your partner, Lauren explains.
This is the potential benefit we can draw from all the chatter about celebrities and their sex lives — perhaps it opens us up so we can speak more honestly about our own.
FEAR OF OUR HUMANITY
In principle, there’s no reason to fear talking about sex, says Lauren. It is so totally natural and so much a part of our lives. None of us would be here without it, right?
And yet the issues people typically have about sex, including a lack of confidence and concern about their own desirability, run very deep.
Memories of a past rejection or an embarrassing moment with a partner can fester and grow over time. As with the principles of talk therapy, opening up and talking about those fears and feelings is a step toward granting yourself the freedom to fully become and accept yourself.
There’s a practical side of this as well — you’ll vastly increase your likelihood of getting and giving real pleasure and satisfaction sexually if you and your mate can discuss what you like.
Lauren told me that she’s astonished at how many people are willing to give up getting what would really please them sexually just so they don’t have to talk about it.
“I ask people if they’ve told their partner what they would like and they say ‘oh no, I can’t!’ What does that mean? Some have been married to the same person for decades, had children together, built their lives… and they can’t talk about sex?”
It is odd, if you think about it. People have no problem asking for their deli sandwich just the way they like it, or giving instructions to a hairdresser, but they just can’t ask their life partner to touch them in a certain way.
Getting past your fears about speaking up will dramatically improve the odds that you will be happy in bed — and brings another major bonus, says Lauren.
These conversations will deepen your relationship because they’ll help the two of you to know each other so much better.
OPENING THE DOOR
Still, while you may decide that openness is a worthwhile pursuit, there is that awkward problem of how to introduce what people refer to as a “delicate” subject into conversation.
But, says Lauren, once you get up the courage, the conversation comes surprisingly easily and naturally. She says one good way to start is by asking your partner some intriguing questions. Here are some of Lauren’s suggestions…
“Why do you think it is we don’t talk about sex?”
“Would you like to talk about it?”
“What would you like to be different from what we do now?”
“What do you like in sex that you are embarrassed to talk about?”
If you really don’t feel ready to have such a conversation with your partner — or if you don’t have a partner at the moment — you can still start to get comfortable discussing sex by exploring the topic with a close friend or sibling. Lauren made some suggestions on how to get these conversations going, too…
“Do you wish you had done something different about sex throughout your life?”
“Do you have funny stories to tell about your sexual history?”
“If you liberated yourself to be as sexual as you might like, what would you do?”
You may find that there is much to be learned when you share experiences with people you trust, and great comfort to be gained from knowing that you are not alone in your insecurities or embarrassing moments.
With sex and its related emotions being a core human experience, what could be more intimate than sharing those thoughts with people you care about? And… most especially… your partner.
Source(s):
Lauren Zander, life coach, chairman and founder of The Handel Group, http://www.TheHandelGroup.com.
March 11th, 2012 at 3:06 am
Robert Rt, Please do not think you could teach me anything about “my group”. I have no group, The only white person I know personally is Howie, a Jew who was surprised to learn he is also an OTW.
There are only OTW’s in my small circle of friends. All are Latino, or Black. You seem to think that I belong to some secret club that is bent on making life hard for the OTW.
This is S. Florida, and there simply are no white people that I know, and me being disabled, unable to afford to drive or own a car, do not have the chance to go out and meet many new people. Miami is a Spanish City and it is hard to order dinner without knowing this language. I get along just fine with the local demographics and am content to live out my years as I am.
We have had this exact same scenario before Robert. I am neither Naive or pretending anything. All I am saying is that you Robert are a bigoted cry-baby, without the sense to realize that many good white men have fought for your cause, like the Union Army to name a few. And you will insult anybody, regardless of how or what they have inside for OTW’s.
This is more between the haves and have nots, than between whites and OWT’s. I have been raised better than to offend the sensibilities of another race or ethnic group. Apparently you have not. Sure there are many whites who abuse priviledge. But then so do many OTW men and women.
Robert the chip you carry on your shoulder must be very heavy, why don’t you put it down and see that the hate you carry for the white man would be a load that you no longer need to carry.
If you must hate, hate those responsible for your angst, and it is not me. It has always been those in power. Those that have been corrupted.
I feel sorry for you Robert, You are truly a racsist without a cause. Please try to keep the white boy this and white boy that to a reasonable level. I will say that you are not near as intelligent as you think you are, only angrier. Drop the Hate and you will be a much happier Human Being. And you cannot convince me I am wrong there.
Al
March 11th, 2012 at 3:07 am
George: Take your meds.
March 11th, 2012 at 8:13 am
Al, I am a black man and I like many who read this blog don’t think you are a bigot. I enjoy your point of view. Keep it coming.
Jessie
March 11th, 2012 at 9:08 am
Al, You are part of the second third of the white race reciting the accomplishments of the latter third(that group who resents the first group of racists and your group), in an attempt to convince us who are suffering from the shit the first group is doing.
This conversation is a waste of time. You will never acknowledge the plight of OTWs, Women, or Gays. To your group we are just complainers, after all whites marched to help us get what we got. Shouldn’t we be satisfied.
WRONG! Yes, many whites from that third group were responsible for helping. But none initiated the drive for equality for OTWs in this country, that was the vision and effort of blacks.
We certainly acknowledge and appreciate the efforts and support of that third group. But like health care it took a black man to bring this nation kicking and screaming to the happening.
White women will discover this. If they don’t rise up and take their rights from the white boy, they will not get them. It will always be later.
You are content with the present situation because it does not impact you. It is easy for you to accept my situation for me. You are not discriminated against because of the color of your skin.
It is from your group that a George Wallace gets accepted to run for the job of President. Why no out cry from the media because he is no threat to White america.
Why is an obvious misogynist like Santorum, bigot like Gingrich, or any of the obvious racists and bigots not called out by the media when their actions towards Obama incite racial hatred?
The answer is seen every day by non racists responses from the likes of whites like you. To your group everything is working out. It is not as bad as we claim.
But you aren’t in danger of being shot because of the color of your skin. You don’t have to prove you are a citizen because of your accent, you don’t get stopped and searched when a white boy like the one who blew up the government building in OK does something that should profile whites.
Why am I citing anything to you? You are just a liar. Pretending to be ignorant of the evil of the white boy. No different than those that pretend that the Holocaust never happened.
You may not be a racist or a bigot, but you are either the most insensitive or ignorant individual or you are one of those individuals who look for attention by decrying how sick or poor you are.
You have no reason to bitch. You are America’s Affirmative Action Beneficiary. You have been given your entitlements through no achievements of your own. They have been legislated to you because of the color of your skin. You have NO excuse for your lack of accomplishments.
I have had to earn mine despite my overwhelming mental superiority to my contemporaries. OTWs have to be way better than their white associates to get or keep the job. You wouldn’t know that because you have skated by on the entitlements the color of your skin gives you.
I will waste no more time on you. This pretense of ignorance of the real world situation is just another play for attention by you.
Your style is to lie for attention. Pretend to be sicker than you are for attention. Lie about anything that makes you uncomfortable and pretend ignorance so as not to have to be responsible for change.
Your group is the reason the first group continues to flourish. I understand the first group, at least they admit their disease of hatred.
I despise your group because of your disingenuousness. Yes, Virginia, racism is still around and it is not going away until it is confronted and defeated at the polls.
Robert,rt
March 11th, 2012 at 9:12 am
I am a woman, an American citizen, a single parent, lesbian, half Jewish, who never experienced such racism, ostracism or bigotry until I came to this country from those I called friends, including my own family (when I came out). Even though the experiences shocked, hurt, scared me, and even scarred me, nonetheless they made me a stronger woman. I am still the same person I was before I confided in my friends and family, yet somehow, to them I was not the same. It has been a very hard struggle to stay true to myself but I’m thankful and blessed for the strength and support I get from my wonderful women friends who love and accept me just the wat I am. Though I believe in all religions, whose business is it what my religious orientation is? Whose business is it what my sexual preference is? There is nothing written on my forehead that says I’m this or I’m that, so why does it affect so many that I am?
Peace and love to all, for we all are brothers and sisters while we’re here on Earth. Love, love, love….that is what I wish for you all.