"I am woman hear me roar." And also watch me run for office.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

Now, a new flood of women — many of them Democrats who watched the election of Donald Trump with horror and disbelief — are raising their hands to run for office in 2018, signaling a potential reprise of a “Year of the Woman” that could make 1992’s election of two dozen new women to the U.S. House pale in comparison. 

They’re on track to break almost every record on the books. As of last week, 325 women were non-incumbent candidates for the United States House, along with 72 female members seeking reelection, according to data compiled by Walsh’s organization. Thirty-eight women not currently serving in the United States Senate are aiming for the upper chamber, along with 12 incumbents running again. And 75 women have set their sights on the nation’s governorships — plus four female incumbents fighting to keep their seats. 

In 2016, a high water mark for female candidates overall, there were 167 female major party nominees for the United States House and 16 for the Senate — well fewer than half the number of candidates vying for one of those spots now.

This is part of what is really terrifying the Republicans right now, and also shaking the foundations of the patriarchal hierarchy in this country.

The election of Donald Trump may have felt like a victory for the anti-feminists and misogynists, but what it has really done is to energize a blue wave of women who are determined to wash away the stench of the Trump agenda, and lift this nation up to reach its highest aspirations.

Personally I can hardly wait.

Sarah Palin has a ghostwriter type up a post on her daughter's blog mocking the Women's March. Well of course she did.

Courtesy of Bristol's ghostwritten blog: 

Feminists say they are all about “strength,” yet they’re always playing victim – it’s embarrassing and it’s setting women back decades!  (If anybody wants to see who set women back decades, just take a look at this former politician.)

If today’s “feminists” only knew what real feminism is, maybe they could relax a little. Maybe be less angry; find a bit of joy in life. Feminism was founded by independent, hard working, capable women that were making a way in the world without whining, relying on government or anyone else. 

(Okay THIS is what happens when people skip history class or their mothers do not do an adequate job of teaching them about the progress that women have made in this country.)


A few serious questions for the feminists who marched last weekend: 

1. What rights do we as American women not have? We can’t vote? We can’t bear arms? We can’t go to school? We can’t work? We don’t have freedom of speech? We have every single opportunity in this great country that anyone else has. (The "everybody else" are men, and they do not typically have to worry about unwanted pregnancies, spousal abuse, and being paid less than the opposite gender.) Wake me when you start marching in the Islamic countries that murder women for showing more than their eyes in public. (Oh yes, did you hear? Suddenly the conservatives are concerned with how women are treated in Islamic countries.)

2. What are you trying to prove by dressing up like “pussies”? 

I’m embarrassed to be a woman in a generation like this. As a middle class working mom – wife – and independent woman – this is completely asinine. I’m telling you, dressing like a giant vagina and holding signs that say things like “Do my periods scare you?” is doing NOTHING to help women, and a LOT to hurt them. (Actually the march is only the beginning of an organizing effort that has already inspired 500 women to learn how to run for political office.)


3. What if the tables were turned? 

Can you imagine if men dressed as giant dicks? Wore penis hats? And held signs like “don’t assume I cook?” .. feminists would freak out and claim they’d been harassed, no doubt. 
  
(Please, men already dress like dicks. Hasn't she seen this guy?)

I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect – which is how I am raising my children. 

(Says a blog post written FOR the person whose name is at the top, by a writer hired by that same parent she credits with teaching about hard work and not taking hand outs.)

Our generation is screaming for “tolerance and equality” and “love for all” while still mocking our President for things like his hair – and igniting violence from uninformed – out of touch – celebrities like Madonna (“I’ve thought about blowing up the White House”), and screaming that someone else MUST provide them “free birth control.”

This ghostwriter's lack of knowledge about the history of feminism should be astounding to all of us, but in fact it is actually the norm these days.

The conservatives have put a lot of effort into mythologizing the actual feminist movement to suggest that it was started by hairy legged, bra burning, lesbians, and that REAL women should want no part of it.

After all who would make them a sandwich if every woman felt empowered?

In the meantime while Palin's ghostwriter attacks women for standing up to a misogynist asshole, that same misogynist asshole just reinstated a Reagan era abortion restriction.

What Sarah, Bristol, and this poor woman who I assume was paid to write this ignorant screed fail to understand is that things are about to get much, much worse for women, and those protesters that she so flippantly attacked were bravely standing up like the heroes we desperately need for HER rights whether she understands or appreciates them or not.

Just like the women at the beginning of the feminist movement did well over a hundred years ago.

Somehow I think feminists will get over it.

This guy is gonna go his whole life thinking it's his looks & not his personality that makes women not date him pic.twitter.com/3s17aZ9wYq

— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) September 8, 2016

Here is the column that this tweet refers to.

Get a load of this:

If you look for a reason to hate men, chances are you’re going to find it. 

The truth is, I don’t blame women, (especially in my generation) for hating men. They’ve been told there’s a wage gap (I disagree). That there’s a culture of rape on college campuses (I also disagree). And the patriarchy is keeping them oppressed in almost every facet of their lives (I really, really disagree.)

So first this guy refutes any evidence which supports a woman's feelings about gender inequality, and then demonstrates his ignorance about women, relationships. and even love.

People who are more loyal to their gender and not their significant other don’t make good partners. They will always look at you as inherently more fortunate than them. They’ve bought into the “battle of the sexes” mentality and it often pervades their perceptions of romance. Romance turns into a power struggle rather than a partnership.

I don't even know what it means to be more loyal to ones gender than to their loved one.

That sounds like a made up circumstance from a guy who does not get a lot of female attention.

I don't believe romance is often a power struggle, though relationships certainly  can be.

And that can happen in ALL relationships, not just those involving members of the opposite sex.

It’s a shame, really, that this divide is widening between the sexes. It’s evident that gender politics is hurting our culture. More marriages are failing and women are reporting that they’re unhappier now than ever. Perhaps in several decades this won’t be the case. 

Maybe one day, men and women will stop trying to eliminate the lines between us and realize it’s the differences between the sexes that make romance, family and love an enjoyable experience.

"Gender politics?" Is that even a thing?

If you are getting the feeling that this guy might be a woman hating conservative, his Twitter feed will do little to dissuade you.

He seems to have a real issue with women and liberalism in general. Go figure.

(And yes he supports Donald Trump.)

Personally I have never heard of the guy, but this article is blowing up all over the interwebs.

So here let me offer my two cents.

Sarah Palin congratulates Ohio Governor John Kasich for signing bill that takes away a woman's sovereign right over her own reproductive system.

Courtesy of Susan B. Acrimony's Facebook page:  

Yes! This is GOOD! When a nationally known and respected leader like Gov. Kasich takes a stand it gives us hope. The heart of the nation is still good. 

Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" that he would sign the bill currently debated in his state banning abortion in cases where the child is diagnosed with Down syndrome. 

Yes!!! Thank you Gov. Kasich; thank you Ohio! 

Palin then links to this CNN article which explains how Kasich just pissed away the female vote.

One of the things about Sarah Palin that angers me the most, and trust me the list is long, is her complete ignorance of how women gained rights in this country.

She seems to think that women always had the right to vote, hold public office, and control their own bodies, when that is in fact totally wrong.

Thousands of women took to the streets to fight for the rights that Palin seems to think were gifted to her from God.

Millions of women died due to complications from back alley abortions or from the abortions themselves, and millions more were rendered sterile or were mutilated by the procedures.

Roe vs Wade helped to put a stop to that. 

And as for forcing a woman to give birth to a Down syndrome child that the mother is unable, or unwilling to care for, what kind of life does John Kasich and Sarah Palin think that child will enjoy?

How many families do they think are lining up to adopt Down syndrome babies if the mother gives them up. What do they think is the cost for the child and the parents if they are forced to keep it, even though they are unequipped financially or emotionally to deal with the constant difficulties?

I work with this population, trust me it is not easy even for the most attentive and dedicated of parents.

And who is Sarah Palin, who hired a caregiver from the moment of Trig's birth to care for him, and who abandons him for weeks or months at a time, to tell ANY other mother that she must give birth?

The word "hypocrisy" is simply not damning enough. 


I also found this picture on the post highly disturbing.

It is bad enough that Palin continues to use Trig as a political prop, after all that is why she has him, but she should definitely leave Levi's son out of her political pandering.

So this is the ditsy blonde that Sarah Palin will be replacing for a week on that tiny conservative cable network.

I am not even exaggerating when I say that watching this poorly educated child demonstrate her ignorance about feminism hurt my heart.

It literally gave me a chest pain.

And the worst thing is that while she is arguing that she does not want to get a job simply because she is a woman, she seems blissfully ignorant that the ONLY reason that she has this platform in which to express her stupidity is because she is a relatively attractive blonde.

Because I can tell you right now that she was NOT hired for her interviewing skills.

So yeah next week Palin will be replacing this idiot, and though I hate to say it she would really be hard pressed to be any worse.

For further examples of Tomi Lahren's ignorance just visit her Twitter feed.

American cardinal is blaming feminism for shortage of Catholic priests. Wait, what?

"Get away from me harlots!"

Courtesy of International Business Times:  

American Cardinal Raymond Burke, a known conservative and one of Pope Francis’ biggest critics, says the “radical feminist movement” has left Roman Catholic men feeling “marginalized” since the 1960s. His comments were made in an interview published Jan. 5 with Matthew James Christoff of “The New Emangelization,” a Catholic men’s ministry. 

“Men are often reluctant to become active in the Church. The feminized environment and the lack of the Church’s effort to engage men has led many men to simply opt out,” Burke said. He points to the popularity of pornography, saying it promotes extramarital sex, a “materialistic and consumer-focused” society that pushes parents to work longer hours and the introduction of altar girls as reasons for men to feel reluctant to be active Catholics. 

“The introduction of girl servers also led many boys to abandon altar service. Young boys don’t want to do things with girls. It’s just natural. The girls were also very good at altar service. So many boys drifted away over time,” Burke said, adding that this contributed to the declining number of priestly vocations in the church. 

Altar girls have existed since 1983, when the church removed its ban on girls helping priests at the altar.

You know here's a thought, and I will just throw this out there, but wouldn't this problem solve itself if the Catholic church simply started allowing women to become priests?

Or is it simply better to continue to blame women for every problem that arises, like the religion has been doing since its inception?

Emma Watson's speech to the UN on Feminism is your must see video of the day.

I am not ashamed to say that I am a fan of Emma Watson, who I first became aware of while taking kids to see the Harry Potter movies, but I have never seen her more impressive than she is here.

See for yourself:

I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. 

Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive. 

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? 

I am from Britain and I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. 

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality. 

These rights I consider to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. And we need more of those. And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important, it's  the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been. 

Watson is a very good choice to be the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador because she is incredibly poised, incredibly well spoken, and a member of a generation that desperately needs to hear her message.