Don’t mean to harp on this subject, but it feels like I’m having a new WTF moment every day:
*Republicans still divided on the Violence Against Women Act. It looks like the re-authorization will just barely squeak by in the Senate, but with a lot of opposition from the Rs…because it’s going to extend protections to Indian tribes and same sex couples. Really?? Mitt is now trying to send an anxious message out to his party: “Please support this bill. I want to have a chance in the general election…”
*Women’s wages are still about 77% of men’s wages, and this gap has not budged at all since 2001.
*The Vatican is reprimanding American nuns for making statements which “disagree with or challenge the bishops”. Oh noes! The nuns in question are members of the Leadership Conference, an organization which supported the President’s health care law. The Vatican has also criticized this group for focusing too much on poverty and economic injustice, and not enough on abortion and gay marriage. (The issues we all really care about…)
*We now get to read lovely opinion columns like the one from SE Cupp in the New York Daily News (and she’s a Glenn Beck minion, so I should know better, but still) lecturing us about how the best choice Ann Romney ever made was marrying well. According to SE, if we’re smart enough to find a good, rich husband, we’ll be able to afford health care and won’t have to go on welfare! Now I know for sure that I’ve been teleported into the 1950’s. (Or is it the 1850’s?)
*And to finish on a depressing note, a quote from one of the women in Colombia who allegedly had a good time with our Secret Service agents, arguing that she is an escort and not a prostitute: “It’s the same, but it’s different…It’s like when you buy a fine rum or a BlackBerry or an iPhone. They have a different price.” Please, ladies, don’t think of yourselves as a phone or a bottle of alcohol. We already get objectified. Let’s not objectify ourselves.
But hey, I’m hallucinating this imaginary “war on women”, right? Just another hysterical feminist. Silver lining time: I know there are other women out there getting as pissed off about this onslaught as I am. Let’s see how far the misogynists can get without our votes…
eurobrat 
04/19/2012 at 11:16 am
Here’s what Iesus said to the self-righteous hypocrites of his day, “…Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”- (Matt. 21:31). Harp away, sister, harp away.
04/19/2012 at 10:16 pm
Thank you, I will 🙂
04/22/2012 at 2:31 pm
Yikes Eurobrat, I had not seen that SE Cupp article. I know I shouldn’t be shocked but I am. I tried to write a blog a couple of weeks ago on what happened to the women’s movement, but I kept getting depressed when I thought about the new 50 Shades of Grey book, the boob implants that have become de riguer, the role the Christian church has played in suppressing women’s rights, etc. Because I write a humorous blog, I kept trying to find the humor in the situation and it just wasn’t funny. What a mess. Anyway, keep up the good fight. Something has got to give, if not for us, for our daughters. Sigh!
04/23/2012 at 6:51 pm
Eleanor, you can’t find the humor in that situation, because there really isn’t anything funny about it. I didn’t even attempt to make the blog humorous. I should just stay away from these depressing topics, except that I keep hoping if we speak out, something really *might* give!
05/15/2012 at 7:26 am
There potentially could be another ‘war’ happening. 😉
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-men-dont-write-blogs/201112/the-end-boys
05/16/2012 at 8:26 pm
Well, and I don’t like that war either. I’m not a fan of any headline talking about one gender or the other being finished. I would like to think that in an ideal world, the two genders would be balanced in importance. Any problems that boys are having in our culture obviously do need to be addressed.
But just because girls are doing better, doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people around who would like to force women back into their old roles. See the above stories. There’s definitely a backlash going on, and I intend to keep speaking out about it.
05/17/2012 at 5:05 pm
I guess in a fair world we would all call ourselves egalitarian’s and truly fight for equality, unfortunately the world isnt fair. So, do as you do and fight the fight as a feminist. 😦
05/17/2012 at 6:54 pm
I’m as much of an egalitarian as I’m capable of being right now. We can agree that the world definitely isn’t fair….