Take a look at this, then consider:
…In response to Jill Biden presenting Rueda* with the ‘International Women of Courage’ award, social media users have accused the First Lady of ‘encouraging the diminishment of women’ and ‘erasing women’.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden, tweeted: ‘It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that the Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is.”
*Ruenda is Alba Rueda, is a transgender woman who the government of Argentina earlier this year named as its first-ever global envoy for LGBTQ. She was one of eleven women who received the International Women of Courage award from Jill Biden.
In the hope that by looking rationally at heated statements of both parties we might let a little fresh air in and raise the level of logic...So. to start with this one:
1. Is a man who identifies himself as a woman and embraces their woman-ness really seeking to diminish and eradicate women? That’s really turning logic upside down.
2. Where does the whiff of automatic competitiveness lie?
3. Rueda is only one of 11 women honored by Jill Biden. What are the odds Jill–a woman–doesn’t know what a woman is?
4. With a bachelor’s degree. two Masters degrees and a PhD. in Education Jill Bidden s not likely to be guilty of Sarah Huckabee’s accusation.
5. If they were talking about a woman who wanted to become a man it might be borderline rational, but by joining womanhood how could that mean “diminish women”?
6. Isn’t Huckabee a member of that group who want to force all pregnant women to hatch their babies, whether wanted or not? Talk about diminishing women!
SORRY for backsliding into negativity, and I’ll continue to leave the real crazies alone (not giving them their PR), but maybe turning the light of logic on some of the statements might be useful, even once in a million?
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A JOURNAL ENTRY 1-10-98
Searching for my voice- Crumpled pages lie beside my typewriter. The notion lingers that if I can just find the right voice, the right cross between irony and sorrow with a little joie de vivre thrown in, then the words would spew out (too much like a volcano? Vomit?)…spill out onto the fresh white pages.
Still looking….
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The Detroit Free Press explains that during examination of medical experts, LaSata became angry after testimony that by banning standard second-trimester procedures for abortion, the Michigan legislature would be putting women into painful and dangerous scenarios. Sen. LaSata’s response was the kind of Jesus empathizing you might expect from a good Christian like LaSata: “Of course it should be hard! And the procedure should be painful! And you should allow God to take over!! And you should deliver that baby!”
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