Five Women Who Give Women a Bad Name
Okay, so I am on Facebook, wasting time and I decide to do one of those "Top 5" surveys. I made one and called it "Five Women Who Give Women a Bad Name." But I cannot just leave it at that... I have to explain why I gave these particular women such kudos for being included on my list.
#5: Anita Bryant, singer. Famous for her stance against homosexuality, citing that giving homosexuals rights, rights would be "granted to prostitutes, and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters." What Bryant did not realize at the time is that prostitutes, people who sleep with St. Bernards, and nail biters have rights. Prostitutes and zoophiles do participate in illegal behavior and, if arrested, tried, and convicted, they lose certain rights but they are still afforded more rights than law-abiding homosexuals (i.e., they can marry and all fifty states will recognize it as a legal marriage). And I don't know what rights Bryant would want to restrict from nail biters, but as a habitual nail biter, I am curious to find out.
But the main reason why Bryant made the list is that in an interview with Ladies Home Journal, December 1980, Bryant stated she felt sorry for her anti-gay comments and actions and had adopted a "live and let live" policy. Yet, her website does nothing but promote her virulent anti-gay activities of the 1970s. So, she's sorry but she's not. A non-apology apology. It seems they weren't invented in the 1990s.
#4: Jane Harman, Democratic Representative. Not wanting to seem totally anti-conservative in my list--but, lately, the neocons have been so much fun, I decided to include this nitwit. First, there is the AIPAC issue. Google it. It would take too long to explain. Second, there is her flagrant "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" involved in the AIPAC issue. (When politicians start putting their own careers over their constituents or the Constitution, it's time to retire.) Third, there is the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
Homegrown terrorism... violent radicalization... scary terms that are just nonsense, knee-jerk reactions. Who is to decide what is "violent radicalization?" The FBI has listed the KKK as a "terrorist" group and yet they are still allowed to flourish in this country. So, what gives? Look, I get it... September 11, 2001 was scary. I cannot even look at footage of the events of that day. But let's not go losing our reason; it's the most effective "weapon" we have against extremism. Duh!
#3: Sarah Palin, Alaskan joke. Okay, she is nowhere near the Oval Office now (thank you!) but she has her eye on that spot. She's craving the White House like her husband craves moose burgers! And that's why she won't go away. She wants to keep in the national eye. She wants to run in 2012. I hope she does. That way President Obama won't have to campaign too hard while also running the nation. But, the overall hilarity that is Sarah Palin is not why she made this list. No, she made the list for one reason.
Speaking at a pro-life group in Indiana recently, Palin recalled about learning she was pregnant. When she and her husband were told that the baby had Downs syndrome, she admits "for a fleeting moment" of "changing the circumstances." So, upon learning that her child would be a special needs baby, Sarah Palin, for a moment, less than a moment even, thought about having an abortion. Now, that is her choice. And she, obviously, chose to have her son. And kudos to her for taking on that responsibility. I can't even imagine having a child, let alone a special needs child, so Palin has that way over me. But, what I don't think Palin (or those pro-lifers) get is that she had THE FREEDOM to CHOOSE whether or not to have that baby. No one made the choice for her. She made that choice herself. That is what PRO-CHOICE means. It is a private, personal choice and it should remain so. Abortion should be rare, safe, and legal.
#2: Ann Coulter, attention whore. Sorry. But it is true. This intellectual numskull is the centerfold of the far right. She eternally sports the Robert Palmer dancing model black cocktail dress (Kathy Griffin's words, not mine) and goes after whoever she feels will get her the most attention, be they September 11 widows, non-Christians, John Edwards. A self-admitted polemicist, Coulter does not see the irony in the fact that she is also a model for ultra-feminism. Never married, no kids, thoroughly devoted to her career--come on!
I just don't like this woman. She makes comments and then complains about being attacked by "the liberal media." For someone who bashes "weak" Democrats, she cries like a victim if anyone confronts her on her views (like Whoopi Goldberg did on Coulter's last appearance on "The View"). But, the one reason why she is on this list is because she blames Republican losses on one thing: the 19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. It granted women, like Ann (I'm assuming) the right to vote. But because "women are so stupid," Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton became President. How does she explain George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, then?
#1: Michele Bachmann, Congressional Carbon Dioxide Proponent. I would really like to know what is in Minnesota's 6th District's drinking water. They sent her back to Capitol Hill, even after she called for an investigation of Congressional members' "anti-American" bias LIVE on television and then later denied ever saying it. In Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous," a representative noted that a person didn't need to pass an I.Q., test to become a member of Congress. Maybe that should be a requirement. I'm not going to say that a person has to be a genius because then who would Barbara Boxer have to talk to in the Senate? But... seriously.
Bachmann seems to think that since carbon dioxide is "natural," it isn't dangerous. After hearing her declare the safety of carbon dioxide, my sister and I wondered what else can now be declared safe, despite an occurrence in nature. We came up with sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, magma, sharks, scorpions, Hanta virus, Ebola, flesh-eating bacteria, black mambas, matriarchal elephants defending their young, hungry lions, and my personal favorite: the spiky candiru! But seriously, Bachmann declared that CO2 is a harmless gas and makes up a whole 3% of our atmosphere, though, in reality, it only makes up 0.04%. Just because something occurs naturally, doesn't make it's increase in our atmosphere a good thing.
So, there's my list... Maybe I will make a Five Women Who Make me Proud of my Vagina blog... but, for now... I will simply quote a lovely piece from Bill Maher:
Operation Streisand
Since Glenn Beck is clearly onto us, liberals must launch our plan for socialist domination immediately. Listen closely, comrades. I've received word from General Soros and our partners in the U.N. "Operation Streisand" is a 'go.'
Marcos Moulitsas, you and your DailyKos-controlled army of gay Mexican day laborers will join forces with Michael Moore's Prius-tank division. North of Branson where you will seize the guns of everyone who doesn't blame America first, forcing them into the FEMA concentration camps! That's where ACORN and I will re-educate them as atheists and declare victory in the war on Christmas!
#5: Anita Bryant, singer. Famous for her stance against homosexuality, citing that giving homosexuals rights, rights would be "granted to prostitutes, and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters." What Bryant did not realize at the time is that prostitutes, people who sleep with St. Bernards, and nail biters have rights. Prostitutes and zoophiles do participate in illegal behavior and, if arrested, tried, and convicted, they lose certain rights but they are still afforded more rights than law-abiding homosexuals (i.e., they can marry and all fifty states will recognize it as a legal marriage). And I don't know what rights Bryant would want to restrict from nail biters, but as a habitual nail biter, I am curious to find out.
But the main reason why Bryant made the list is that in an interview with Ladies Home Journal, December 1980, Bryant stated she felt sorry for her anti-gay comments and actions and had adopted a "live and let live" policy. Yet, her website does nothing but promote her virulent anti-gay activities of the 1970s. So, she's sorry but she's not. A non-apology apology. It seems they weren't invented in the 1990s.
#4: Jane Harman, Democratic Representative. Not wanting to seem totally anti-conservative in my list--but, lately, the neocons have been so much fun, I decided to include this nitwit. First, there is the AIPAC issue. Google it. It would take too long to explain. Second, there is her flagrant "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" involved in the AIPAC issue. (When politicians start putting their own careers over their constituents or the Constitution, it's time to retire.) Third, there is the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
Homegrown terrorism... violent radicalization... scary terms that are just nonsense, knee-jerk reactions. Who is to decide what is "violent radicalization?" The FBI has listed the KKK as a "terrorist" group and yet they are still allowed to flourish in this country. So, what gives? Look, I get it... September 11, 2001 was scary. I cannot even look at footage of the events of that day. But let's not go losing our reason; it's the most effective "weapon" we have against extremism. Duh!
#3: Sarah Palin, Alaskan joke. Okay, she is nowhere near the Oval Office now (thank you!) but she has her eye on that spot. She's craving the White House like her husband craves moose burgers! And that's why she won't go away. She wants to keep in the national eye. She wants to run in 2012. I hope she does. That way President Obama won't have to campaign too hard while also running the nation. But, the overall hilarity that is Sarah Palin is not why she made this list. No, she made the list for one reason.
Speaking at a pro-life group in Indiana recently, Palin recalled about learning she was pregnant. When she and her husband were told that the baby had Downs syndrome, she admits "for a fleeting moment" of "changing the circumstances." So, upon learning that her child would be a special needs baby, Sarah Palin, for a moment, less than a moment even, thought about having an abortion. Now, that is her choice. And she, obviously, chose to have her son. And kudos to her for taking on that responsibility. I can't even imagine having a child, let alone a special needs child, so Palin has that way over me. But, what I don't think Palin (or those pro-lifers) get is that she had THE FREEDOM to CHOOSE whether or not to have that baby. No one made the choice for her. She made that choice herself. That is what PRO-CHOICE means. It is a private, personal choice and it should remain so. Abortion should be rare, safe, and legal.
#2: Ann Coulter, attention whore. Sorry. But it is true. This intellectual numskull is the centerfold of the far right. She eternally sports the Robert Palmer dancing model black cocktail dress (Kathy Griffin's words, not mine) and goes after whoever she feels will get her the most attention, be they September 11 widows, non-Christians, John Edwards. A self-admitted polemicist, Coulter does not see the irony in the fact that she is also a model for ultra-feminism. Never married, no kids, thoroughly devoted to her career--come on!
I just don't like this woman. She makes comments and then complains about being attacked by "the liberal media." For someone who bashes "weak" Democrats, she cries like a victim if anyone confronts her on her views (like Whoopi Goldberg did on Coulter's last appearance on "The View"). But, the one reason why she is on this list is because she blames Republican losses on one thing: the 19th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. It granted women, like Ann (I'm assuming) the right to vote. But because "women are so stupid," Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton became President. How does she explain George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, then?
#1: Michele Bachmann, Congressional Carbon Dioxide Proponent. I would really like to know what is in Minnesota's 6th District's drinking water. They sent her back to Capitol Hill, even after she called for an investigation of Congressional members' "anti-American" bias LIVE on television and then later denied ever saying it. In Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous," a representative noted that a person didn't need to pass an I.Q., test to become a member of Congress. Maybe that should be a requirement. I'm not going to say that a person has to be a genius because then who would Barbara Boxer have to talk to in the Senate? But... seriously.
Bachmann seems to think that since carbon dioxide is "natural," it isn't dangerous. After hearing her declare the safety of carbon dioxide, my sister and I wondered what else can now be declared safe, despite an occurrence in nature. We came up with sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, magma, sharks, scorpions, Hanta virus, Ebola, flesh-eating bacteria, black mambas, matriarchal elephants defending their young, hungry lions, and my personal favorite: the spiky candiru! But seriously, Bachmann declared that CO2 is a harmless gas and makes up a whole 3% of our atmosphere, though, in reality, it only makes up 0.04%. Just because something occurs naturally, doesn't make it's increase in our atmosphere a good thing.
So, there's my list... Maybe I will make a Five Women Who Make me Proud of my Vagina blog... but, for now... I will simply quote a lovely piece from Bill Maher:
Operation Streisand
Since Glenn Beck is clearly onto us, liberals must launch our plan for socialist domination immediately. Listen closely, comrades. I've received word from General Soros and our partners in the U.N. "Operation Streisand" is a 'go.'
Marcos Moulitsas, you and your DailyKos-controlled army of gay Mexican day laborers will join forces with Michael Moore's Prius-tank division. North of Branson where you will seize the guns of everyone who doesn't blame America first, forcing them into the FEMA concentration camps! That's where ACORN and I will re-educate them as atheists and declare victory in the war on Christmas!
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