[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [sf-core] Another Guantánamo prisoner death highlights Democrats' hypocrisy

[E. Wayne Johnson]

On 9/13/2012 8:08 AM, Scott Kimball wrote:
> How does silly and childish compare with shrewish and bitchy on the 
> value scale?
>
>
> This is such such a typical patriarchal response to a woman speaking 
> up that it would be comical if it were not the case that this man 
> actually lives in our community. Whenever a woman speaks up and 
> challenges the men, she becomes "the bitch". It doesn't matter what 
> she says.Her words are not heard. Only the challenge to male authority 
> is heard.  Compare this to when a man speaks out. When a man speaks 
> out, he is heard and his thoughts are acknowledged to be worthy of 
> discussion. Men can "reason" together in groups. Women, however, are 
> too emotional and, perhaps, too intellectually inferior to be worthy 
> of discussion. And, again, if a woman brings up the claim that men are 
> being patriarchal or misogynistic, she is berated for being divisive 
> or deviating from the important discussion (you know, the one the men 
> are having).
>
> I find the discussions on this listserv to be very mean spirited, and 
> most importantly, disorganizing. This is not the mode of discourse 
> folks should use who want to organize for economic and social justice. 
> You cannot work towards building a mass movement if you can't stop 
> being an asshole.
>
Actually it was s'posed ta be at least half in jest, not only provocative.

The other half is rather a matter of cell biology.

("When I grow up... I think I'd like to be a cell."  - Barbara Vertel, 
cell biologist, Rosalind Franklin Univ.)

*

Y:  What sort of woman would you like, Adam?

A:  Wow, dude.  I'd really like a woman who would always love me and be good
to me and care for me and understand me....

Y:  Adam, Adam.  Be realistic, man.  A woman like that would cost you an 
Arm and a Leg.

A.  Hey.  What can I get for just a Rib?

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