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Comment on Family Values by slightner

slightner — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:38:39 +0000

Did she really attack her or her qualifications to know the challenges of women in the workplace? More on this in an upcoming blog.

Comment on Family Values by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:14 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. It doesn’t serve any useful purpose for anyone to attack anyone in this way. Ann Romney isn’t running for office. She may well be clueless about what life is like for the 99%, but she’s not the candidate and attacking her is a pointless sideshow. Rosen could have made the argument the way you have, pointing out that the Romneys have led such an insulated life that they don’t know what the working and middle class families are going through right now. But instead, Rosen let slip her underlying resentment. That’s her fault and not the fault of those who took offense at a truly offensive remark. As for republican hypocrisy, they show themselves up as the hypocrites they are with very little help from us. They want women to stay home with their children? So why don’t they support mothers on public assistance? They want poor women to work? Why don’t they provide affordable, safe child care? Yeah. They’re a bunch of mean-spirited, entitled hypocrites.

Comment on Family Values by slightner

slightner — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:31:49 +0000

I agree, but what is being inferred what she said is not what she said or meant. It’s funny, but I didn’t think she was being mean-spirited about “stay-at-home moms”, but about how tone deaf the Romneys are about working women’s problems. But the damage is done and the best defense is to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans on this one. I do have to laugh at one statement, “What useful purpose did it serve to attack Ann Romney is such a mean-spirited and inarticulate way?” You mean like the way Republicans attack President Obama?

Comment on Family Values by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:24:24 +0000

I have to put the lion’s share of the blame on Hilary Rosen for the words she used. It was a Freudian slip of the first order. Of course, she was pointing out that the Romney’s have no clue what it is like to live in the world where people work for a living and have to make all kinds of choices about work and family that are difficult, expensive and often wrenching. But there is a catty, bitchy, snide attitude that still exists among some women that discounts the work done by women– and some men– who stay at home with their children. Rosen revealed herself as one of those throwbacks to the mommy wars by the words she used. Words do matter, and someone who is speaking to the public needs to be conscious of the power of words to shape the discussion at hand. What useful purpose did it serve to attack Ann Romney is such a mean-spirited and inarticulate way?

Comment on Whose Freedom is It? by slightner

slightner — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:58:00 +0000

Yes, and as I get older I try to overcome my urge to strangle some of these people.

Comment on Whose Freedom is It? by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:01:17 +0000

That should read “do you EVER feel like Jeremiah or Cassandra”

Comment on Whose Freedom is It? by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:59:32 +0000

In this morning’s Tennessean, the local rag that passes for a newspaper these days, there is a front page story about a bill pending in our TN legislature to allow owners of property in TN to do whatever they want with their property. It was proposed by the man who represents my district. He produces one of these bills every week. It’s sickening, and there seems to be no end to it, as the vast majority of his constituents don’t think beyond the end of the sentence they’re reading. All the gains we made in the last half of the twentieth century, both scientific and social, are in danger of being dismantled by the tea party. Do you every feel like Jeremiah or Cassandra?

Comment on Unbridled Sex by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:57:24 +0000

It has been a bad couple of weeks to be an aging feminist in this country. All the small victories we thought we had won have been called into question by a bunch of scared, fat, white men who don’t seem to have a clue how birth control pills work. They obviously know how Viagra works and have extrapolated that experience to the use of birth control pills. It would be laughable and pathetic if they didn’t have so much power.

Comment on The Travel Blues and Shock and Awe by Alice Nunnery

Alice Nunnery — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:04:00 +0000

Well, you knew (didn’t you) that I would take exception to that remark about the South. I would argue that the South never had a “corner” on the ignorance market. Granted, there are plenty of ignorant, racist, sexist white people down here, but have you ever read anything about Woodrow Wilson’s attitudes about Blacks and women, just for a surprising example? Northern elites and California liberals want to point a finger at the South and call us the scourge of civilization, but its just the pot calling the kettle black, if you ask me. There are ignorant people in every corner of the world, and the politicians of the world love to exploit them.
Having said that, I can hardly stand to go to a public place any more in this little bastion of shallow thinking where I live. These people give conservatism a bad name.
So we’ll be grumpy together, Friend.

Comment on Republican Primaries ad nauseam by slightner

slightner — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:28:32 +0000

Not bad for a guy in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. I would agree and Witchita Lineman takes me back to lonely days at Holloman AFB in the winter. As for the horse race, it is not news. I would love it if they would really talk policies and what we need to do. But another season of Downton Abby is about to start.