What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
“If a girl wandered on to a football field where I was playing,” he writes of his sports-obsessed childhood, “I might make knocking her down part of my fly pattern, for a girl was only an honorary human being; and if my roller skating assumed a certain grand sweep, a girl or two might hit the cement, not an unfitting position for such a lesser part of humanity.”
ugh
Some 8 in 10 Americans say it’s important for religious freedom to be protected for Christians, a new poll finds. That number drops to 6 in 10 when it comes to protecting the religious rights of Muslims.
How strongly do Americans support religious rights? Depends on the religion. – CSMonitor.com
Sigh….
From Star Wars to Mad Max, a new, more diverse kind of storytelling went mainstream this year – and the backlash shows how much it matters.
What to do when you’re not the hero any more
hmmmm
People hold portraits of late World War II “comfort women” in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. The rally, which has been held every Wednesday since 1992, was the first since the countries reached what they consider a final settlement over Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military.
Remembering S. Korean sex slaves after deal – Yahoo News
Sigh….
Liberal Washington Post columnist: Bill Clinton is ‘fair game’ for Trump | TheHill
To fair, this could be true…
…If you believe women to be perpetual victims, with no agency of their own.
It’s beyond insulting all the way to patronizing. God, I fucking loathe women-haters like this writer. This cunt-rag is just pissed because someone got some twenty years ago and it wasn’t her. I mean, hyperbole in service of being a hater much? Clinton may have cheated on his wife but he’s not fucking Bill-Roofie-Them-All-Cosby.
Newsflash, you backwards twat, women are adults too. They are empowered to employ agency in their own lives. They have the technology to say no and walk away. Sit down, shut the fuck up, and stop implying that all women are helpless victims who are incapable of acting in their own interests when hit on.
…And blaming a wife because her partner cheated is a viewpoint that belongs in the dust-heap of history. Don’t ever claim to be someone who is anything other than an ally for men seeking to make sure women stay barefoot, pregnant, and the property of male masters with that fucking attitude, you backwards horrid gash, you.
Seriously, if you want to be that kind of useless gutter-trash, go for it. Don’t try and pull every other woman down into that simpy, servile cesspool of dependence with your pathetic ass though. Your women-hating, cloaked-misogyny bullshit does not prevent other womens’ ability to be full, active, and in control participants of their own lives. That backwards shit is on you.
Wench.
Crystal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October.
Lawsuits seek to abolish country’s bail bond system | Miami Herald
hmmm
When a 12-year-old Idaho girl told a school lunch worker she was hungry but didn’t have any money, the woman gave her a free meal. She was later fired.
School lunch lady feeds hungry kid, gets fired
Sigh…
Diane Taylor returns to the Manchester Stock Exchange, where squatters are spending Christmas courtesy of owners Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs
Gary Neville’s homeless hotel: what happened next – video | Society | The Guardian
“Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight”
A visit from St. Nick nearly turns tragic.
One Reason Not to Believe in Santa Claus – The New York Times
WTF is wrong with people?! First off this supposedly religious person has the hubris to draw a direct correlation between himself and Joseph, and secondly, how strong can your weak-ass faith be if your religious foundation could so easily be toppled by a visit to Santa? And lastly, why the fuck are you having a young person who can’t hold a baby hold your newborn without standing a little closer? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Anyone who goes around calling themselves a “Christian” as if their denomination is the only kind of Christian is usually really bad at being one.
The mandate that women cover their hair relies on religious misinterpretations.
This.
A tenured Wheaton College professor who, as part of her Christian Advent devotion, donned a traditional headscarf to show solidarity with Muslims has been placed on administrative leave, sparking protests on the west suburban campus Wednesday.
Wheaton College students back suspended professor wearing hijab – Chicago Tribune
Sigh…
A woman who was violently gang raped in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail after being found guilty of indecency and [having audacity to] talk to the media [regarding the incident.]
Saudi woman to get 200 lashes after being raped
Our f’ing allies? Sigh…
…or to be super crass, how very 50 Shades of Grey.
#IWillProtectYou is spreading, and veterans are responding with heartwarming messages of support.
When Donald Trump’s words scared this Muslim girl, these Army vets responded perfectly.
This.
Cop out my ass.
She’s right and you’re just pissed because you’re not Tina Fey.
Source: On 1-year anniversary, family still seeks answers in Charli Scot – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
A baby is not a fucking baby until it is born. I fucking hate her family. I’m not saying they or their supporters deserved any of this but I am saying they have pushed an egregious wrong forward in self-serving focus on their grief.
A fetus is not a baby. Period. It is a part of a woman’s body. Don’t fucking name it. Don’t say it would have been so and so old, you don’t know it would have made it through the delivery fucktards. A baby breathes, a fetus does not. This thing never took a breath and never became a baby. …Which is sad but doesn’t give this trashy asshole family the right to change the legal standing of every other pregnant woman on the planet because something bad happened to someone they love. I hate them. I hate them. They are trashy, trashy scum.
When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.
How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously – The Atlantic
hmmmm
The Navy secretary took issue with the Marine Corps’ controversial gender integration study released Thursday, saying that he questioned some of its findings and still believes the military would be best with all jobs open to women.
Navy secretary criticizes controversial Marine Corps gender integration study
hmmm
The woman asked if Broaddrick, Willey and Jones should be believed.
Clinton asked about rape accusations against husband | TheHill
Lol, well, that’s settled then.
The US defence secretary Ash Carter announces that all combat roles will be opened to women, making them eligible for some 220,000 jobs.
US to open all combat roles to women, defence secretary says – BBC News
Nice! It should be about the ability to perform a job, not the package you come in.
Controversy about fresco — which depicts slaves in a tobacco field and Native Americans threatening white settlers — emerges as schools nationwide debate racial history.
U. of Kentucky shrouds a 1934 mural that depicts African American slaves – The Washington Post
Sigh… The student make valid points.
Covering up the facts of our history o avoid making people uncomfortable makes me uncomfortable. If our country’s mistakes are better known and understood, we can better avoid repeating them.
Civil rights group alleges that state law has unlawfully disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters.
NAACP Sues Alabama Over Voter ID Law | Al Jazeera America
Go, go gadget NAACP.
Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tries, fails to understand white privilege.
Katie Pavlich: ‘Confronting My White Privilege Is Going To The Tanning Salon’
<white people facepalm>
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