i really don’t know what to say
March 13, 2008 by Betmo
i have been saying ‘weeping jesus on the cross’ quite a bit- and today was more of an ‘oh my f**king god’ kind of day and there has been a great deal of shaking of my head too. why? you may ask. what’s wrong betmo? that’s where i say- where do i begin? i don’t know if my fingers can type fast enough. i have absolutely almost lost my goddamned mind. deep breath.
i am a woman. i have the boobs and vagina to prove it. trust me. i cannot wrap my mind around how incredibly horribly my gender has represented itself lately. i mean from nancy pelosi to start then on to the spineless, let me join the boys’ club chicks in the congress- to talking heads. omfg!!!! i read a variety of blogs and i believe i have posted before- i read ladies of color and all manners of so-called feminist blogs. i also read plenty of lgbt blogs and blogs by chicks like me- who just want to write. so- i hope i have sufficient information to base my observations. i realize i am rambling- but if i have to read one more time how it’s silda spitzer’s fault- and any woman’s fault- that her husband decided cheat on her- i will punch something. if i have to hear that it’s because she isn’t servicing his needs- i will punch something. if i have to hear one more time- how it’s ok for clinton and ferraro and the entire campaign to be racist and then excuse themselves because they are white women (but not ok for anyone to criticize them because now- that’s misogynist) i think i will punch something.
ladies- why not get the collective heads out of the asses for awhile and get real? ya’ll can’t have it all ways. the clintonistas all claim to be feminists- and yet behave like little victims whenever anyone calls them on anything. the fact is that the feminist movement in this country is alarmingly white. i have heard from more than one source that these little suburban soccer moms who go to the NOW meetings are all willing to include unless you rock their status quo. well, we have seen evidence of that haven’t we? keith olberman misogynst for calling out clinton to repudiate ferraro’s racist statements that she had been all around the news defending? acting like clinton didn’t know and it wasn’t a political ploy. grow up girls- it’s time. get real.
then we have the guilty career women like kern and schlessinger who blame women for being mistreated by men. wtf? my husband and i have a partnership. i imagine most folks do- unless they are rethugs or fundies- or both. i don’t tell my husband what to do and i am fully autonomous. if i don’t want to give it up- guess what? i don’t. hubby doesn’t like it- there’s some vaseline in the bathroom. have at it. get real. these men are adults. it isn’t my ‘duty’ to service my husband- i happen to like him. it isn’t his duty to come home to me every night- he likes me.
the tv personalities aren’t even what makes my blood boil- it’s the minions who are supporting hillary hook, line and sinker and refuse- ala right wing style- to hear anything negative about the clinton campaign. i am not an obama enthusiast. although i don’t know why i continue to make the distinction- it doesn’t matter in the slightest. it will be a cold day in hell before i vote for hillary clinton because of the way she has run her campaign. smart politics- no doubt. but that isn’t what i am looking for in the next president. obama has flaws but he hasn’t played the gender card. he has skewed his mailings and stretched the truth in his ads and debates- but he hasn’t called clinton’s religion into question. get real ladies. you can’t keep playing the misogyny card either. it exists and it is real but you are over playing your hand. keep it going and you may get a ‘snow job special‘.
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Save some of those punching pillows for me. I share your angst re pelosi. Could she have been any more disappointing? right along with that mid term dem majority the voters installed in BOTH house & congress- we got- nothin. They just keep rubber stamping more & more billions for war, while the country goes bankrupt. the thing that really bothers me is the “ask congress to impeach” stuff. We have to ask them? How long does ths list of high crimes have to be before they get it? I’m sick of asking them— they should not even have to be told, but demand is more like it. Some prostitute action yeilds a loss of job, perhaps being disbarred, but murder a million people– get a 2nd term as president and an impeachment off the table free ride to do whatever their evil minds come up with. I need a pillow to punch NOW!
Yeah–I heard some misguided lassie on As It Happens last night breathily talking about what “must have driven” Eliot to such measures. It’s pathetic, but then she doesn’t get the sex-as-expression-of-power thing that goes with all this, not to mention all the stuff about sex as sandbox, alpha male nonsense.
When I lived in Santa Cruz many years ago, a prostitute (in SC they call ‘em sex workers) came to a group I attended. She wouldn’t have rated any diamonds on a VIP scale, but there she was.
Read an article in an old New Yorker last night when Spitzer was just an arrogant but fumbling new guv–he comes from loads of money and has probably always just bought whatever he wanted, sex included. $80,000 is nothing to him.
As Fitzgerald once said, the rich are very different from you and me, and even more so from people who think that poor Eliot was “driven” to prostitutes by a cold wife.
I don’t buy the “driven to a hooker line” either. But I also know that women in the business of selling their bodies also enjoy the empowerment end of the deal too Lulu. That ego trip goes both ways.
I don’t give a shit what drove Eliot to prostitutes. It’s not my problem.
What I still say is wrong is how we, as a nation, view prostitution. Unless or until we change that bullshit..we will continue to view the act of selling yourself for sex as a horrible thing..courtesy of the bible and other Theocratic assholes that control our society and its mores at large.