Talk Down to Me, Baby!

I am beyond thankful to Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina for helping GOP men understand why more women aren’t involved in politics or government. 

“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some piechart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that. …We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go.” Ellmers then stated that what women really want is more time to get ready in the morning.

 

Here are a few pie charts I’ve made to help Rep. Ellmers understand women.

Any other suggestions for charts I need to make?

An Open Letter to Facebook and Their “Standards”

Dear Facebook,

Wise the fuck up! 

Seriously, what is up with you?  A man who felt that women should be falling all over themselves for him decides to get “revenge” on womankind in general and goes on a mass murder spree, someone creates a page branding him a hero,and you say that’s *not* hate speech?  What the fuck, Facebook? 

What are these “standards” you speak of that it doesn’t violate?  The ones that say that two men (or two women) kissing is evil, but showing support for a madmen who murdered innocent people is peachy keen?  The ones that say that breast feeding is an abomination, but supporting a man who posted manifestos declaring women as evil simply because they wouldn’t fuck him (and then murdering random women in a premeditated rampage) is okay by you? 

Who the hell writes your standards, Facebook? 

And, yeah, I totally get the irony that I’m posting this up on another social media site (Blogger.com) and then linking to it on Facebook, but that’s kinda the point, Facebook!  I want you to see it.  I want everyone to see it.  I know it’s just another complaint – just another entry in the long list in the ways that Facebook is fucked up – but my brain just can’t process that you think this page is okay while pages that objectify women are all good and acceptable. 

So, Facebook, maybe you can reconsider it.  Maybe if you were truly an AI without a stupid fucking human behind you, maybe then you’d realize that this page is totally fucking unacceptable and take it the fuck down.

So fuck you, Facebook, and your totally fucked up views!

(And, yeah, I was totally going for as many fucks as I could in one post – not enough?  Too many?  Wait, let me add a final one for the road: Fuck you, Facebook!)

Sincerely,

Waiting to see Google+ go beyond just Google employees so that I can start using it instead

Big old rant on what’s wrong with the world so far this week!

This is just one of those weeks – only one day in! – when it seems like I just can’t get away from the world and its insanity.

For those who are not following all the news that’s popping up in weird places, this week has just been painful for anyone who cares about women.

On Sunday, the Missoula County Attorney’s Office (Montana) turned into a whiney douchebag when they complained that the DOJ served them with a report about their deficiencies in handling sexual assault cases on a Friday at 5 p.m.  That didn’t give them any time to respond! How unfair!  But it seems that, according to their office, it was totally cool that they told the mother of a five-year-old rape victim that the teenage boy who committed the crime was only sentenced to two years of community service because “boys will be boys.”  And apparently it was totally fine that they told the DOJ that their office “investigates sexual assault in its spare time.”  Yeah, you know, when they have a few minutes not surfing Facebook or downloading midget porn or whatever.  Seriously.  Seriously!  How do we live in a world where this is happening??

Of course, that’s not the only bit of outrage out there.  In Syria, a “young girl” (age not listed) was stoned to death for…wait for it…opening a Facebook account.  According to the Sharia court that judged her, the account “demonstrated immoral behavior,” and so they imposed the punishment for adultery.  Yes.  Seriously.  Seriously!  Your outrage building yet?

Next up, some awesome attacks on feminists and feminism with some victim-blaming thrown in for good measure!  A bunch of SFF members who forgot that things they put in a public forum were, well, public, went ahead and blasted women, attacking one woman in particular.  Perhaps my favorite post was from Sean P. Fodera who stated that the woman in question was not allowed to complain about sexism because she had – GASP! – appeared in a photo that had her “legs exposed” and because she is “fond of wearing tight-fitting gowns and plunging necklines…”  I’d say stone her, but it isn’t funny in light of the fact that those judgment calls are *exactly* what get woman and girls stoned every day!  These statements are also exactly what people say after a woman gets raped – hey, she deserved it, she asked for it, she actually expected to be treated as a human being who is allowed to control her own body! The gall! The nerve!  The next thing you know, women will be expected to be treated as well as animals!

 

Save the dolphins! But rape and kill the women!
(Image by KFJMiller via morgueFile)

Except…the final bit of news I have to share tells us exactly what some countries think about their women and their animals.  In India, the Minister of the Environment and the Forests determined that cetaceans (which includes dolphins and whales) “should be seen as non-human persons and as such should have their own specific rights.”  What this means is that no one may “capture or confine” any of the species because the animals are “highly intelligent and sensitive.”  Wait.  Let that irony sink all the way in.  Yes, you can’t confine a dolphin, but forcing a woman (or a girl) into marriage, keeping them locked up, raping them, killing them for honor or dowry…hey, don’t bother looking at those violations!  After all, they aren’t cetaceans!  They aren’t highly intelligent and sensitive! 

Seriously?

Seriously!

If I haven’t managed to get you pissed off, you’re reading the wrong damn blog. 

Now go out there and get other people pissed off about what’s wrong with the world!