Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Bigotry, Ethnicity, Ft Hood, Human Rights, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Race, Religion, Women's Rights on November 15, 2009| 1 Comment »
Last week I found this older item in the BBC news. I had thought to do a little post around it. I would ask, what is religion, and how is it defined? Is it defined as Abrahamic, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Iranian, Kurdish, Western, Folk or Far Eastern? Or do we take the religious edifice we have constructed, break it into shards, pick up one to admire and kick at the rest?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8327636.stm
After asking those questions, (more…)
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Biden, Bolton, Boxer, CEDAW, ERA, Leaque of Women's Voters, NRLC, Obama, Patricia Smith, UNIFEM, United Nations, US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on November 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
ERA TODAY!!!
On December 3rd, the United Nations as part of the “30th Anniversary Celebration Event” will hold a global celebration recognizing the adoption of “Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women”(CEDAW) in 1979. I don’t know if you recall, but the United States, in it’s “great” role as a women’s rights advocate, still hasn’t ratified this UN measure.
Briefly, CEDAW treaty signers (more…)
Posted in 51 Percent, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Federal Grand Jury Probe, Pay for Play, Richardson on November 14, 2009| 3 Comments »
I guess all the info below happened after the hiatus I took on August 26th . However, I see that my last Richardson post is still up on Daily Puma. So maybe Alessandro will supplant it with this. (more…)
Posted in 51 Percent, Election, election reform, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Berg, Lawsuit, Obama on November 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The FEC reports that the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, on November 12th, affirmed Pennsylvannia’s Court decision regarding Berg V Barack Obama, et al. For all the documentation regarding this, go HERE.
Lest you have forgotten, this case attempted to present evidence regarding Obama’s ineligibility to run for and serve as president, However, the lower court determined that Berg was not personally injured, and therefore had no standing to bring the suit.
Having taken a brief gander a the appeals court’s opinion, as a non expert, it looks like Berg’s suit was a mess. See what you think.
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, The New Agenda, women, tagged NIHI, Solano Co. Cat on November 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
If you haven’t got your H1N1 shot yet and you aren’t allergic to eggs, go get your gal-durn shot. If you are allergic to eggs and don’t have medical insurance with which to get medical advice, contact these people:
Solano County CA. has now confirmed the death of a six year old. A forty-year old man died recently, 80 people have been hospitalized and we have had one school dismissal. Maybe that doesn’t seem like much in a population of more than 400 thousand. Why do you want to be one of the lucky ones that got it?
Then, there is this, a now confirmed case of H1N1 in a cat. If yours aren’t feeling well, get it checked out.
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Rape, Sexual Grooming, Sexual Predators on November 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Previously titled “A Marin County Ghost Story”. (what can I say; I was tired, this sounds better.)
Long ago in a faraway place called Marin County, I took a job selling Champion motor homes. My husband and I hadn’t been married that long, maybe 3 years. We had two toddlers. Money was tight. Because we were living in SF at the time and had only one car, my husband, who had met the man and found me this job, drove me there for what was supposed to be the first day of many, with idea I would take the bus back, a trip of at least an hour.
As many of you more savvy people might anticipate, after my husband left, the sexual innuendos began. So well ok, the guy is a jerk. It was the 70’s, free sex was all around, and I was 22. Pretty much for the entire day the sexual advances continued. I’m thinking I’ll just handle it and not come back. The lot closed and others left, one coming to say goodbye with an odd look.
It was time for me to go and catch the bus. He blocked the entrance to the motor home I was in. He was friendly, but blocking the entrance saying it’s too far to take the bus and he is going to give me ride home. So now the question, do I attempt to push by the guy or will this get worse? The lot was dark, my husband was an hour away, it was before cell phones, and he wasn’t going to let me in the office to make a call. He was pretty insistent at this point that we should have sex.
It was all so friendly and calm, it was the 70’s and sex wasn’t a big deal, HIV/AIDS wasn’t known yet. Even so, I didn’t want to have sex with this asshole. Was it better to keep it calm and friendly or could it escalate? So I made a bargain. I gave him a blowjob. Yes, it was still sex, but I didn’t have to get naked, I didn’t have to lie down. He didn’t touch my body. I could have bitten him, and run out, but in the 70’s in Marin County, in the dark, I might not have made it anywhere whole.
Afterwards he took me home. The next day he called my husband and apologized to him, not me. ( Had he thought my husband was offering me up?) I wouldn’t talk to him. He tried to tell my husband that he had a good wife and family and didn’t know why he did this. (Meaning he did it more than once?) He wanted my husband to feel sorry for him. In thinking about it, this incident may be one reason why I prefer to drive myself places.
Today in 2009, a lot of us, including me, would handle this kind of thing differently. However, even when we do our best to protect ourselves, there are times when we just don’t recognize the pattern until it is too late.
Why am I telling what will certainly be an icky story for my granddaughter to read? The answer is that I never told my older daughter. Now, as she is beginning a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer, I realize I have left out some important information to pass on. We are strong women; we can survive just about anything.
However, don’t assume a sexual harasser can be managed. You shouldn’t have to. Just because you make it one day or the next doesn’t mean that if an opportunity arises a predator will refrain. After the second time you have to say no, start a journal. Complain to Human Resources. Don’t think sexual grooming happens only to children. If a sexual predator attempts to groom you and fails, don’t assume he will just leave you alone. Expect retaliation. The jails are full of people, mostly men, who are incredibly personable and have spent most of their years planning how to get you, and are very patient. Don’t manage, do what it takes to stop it. Whatever that is.
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The Silent Majority: Adult Victims of Sexual Exploitation by Clergy
EMOTIONAL ABUSE in the workplace.
Communication Tactics Used By Sexual Predators To Entrap Children Explained
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Abigail Adams, Feminism, First Lady on November 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Born this day, November 11th, 1744: Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States, March 4th, 1797- March 4th, 1801.
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Maria Mayer, Nobel Prize, Physics on November 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On this day November 10th, 1963, Maria Mayer became the first American woman and second woman ever, to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Her working life was indicative of the strictures many women have suffered toward achievement in a male dominated field.
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged BusinessWeek, Cancian, Children, Haskins, marriage, Minority Rights, Poverty, Women's Rights on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
-Update-
Someone over at NewsWeek finally did publish my comment, so I am removing it here. However, it’s still worth a look to SEE what was posted in their “Debate Room” this week, suggesting that low-income women should get married as a way out of poverty.
What do you think?
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, voter reform, women, tagged 19th Amendment, Bella Abzug, Equality Day, ERA, Nixon, women on August 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
What are you doing to celebrate? August 26th, 1920 was the day women in the United states obtained the right to vote. The 19th amendment, introduced in 1878 and establishing suffrage for women, took 42 years to become law. In 1971, after Bella Abzug’s introductory legislation, and a bill passed and signed into law by President Nixon, the day was proclaimed as Women’s Equality Day. Without yet having achieved the ERA, the term “Equality” can only be applied in the narrow sense, as it relates to voting rights. However, certainly women and men everywhere can celebrate this day, today, as the great leap forward it represents.
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