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shelleybearAnyone who thinks that "gender issues" only come up once puberty hits needs to hear/read this story from NPR's All Things Considered that stopped me in the car arriving home to listen. I don't consider myself dysphoric at all, but I know lots of people who are or have been...and I feel for a poor kid so tormented she has to practically gut herself in her parents' kitchen to get them to listen.
May. 8th, 2008
As if her mulish insistence on continuing her increasingly quixotic race for her party's Presidential nomination weren't proof enough that Hillary Rodham Clinton truly cares about no one and nothing save herself (and possibly her family), her latest quoted public statements prove it beyond the merest shadow of a doubt. Scroll down to the money quote in paragraph 16 to find out what has me and half my f-list gaping in sheer, stunned disgust.
So apparently desperate has Clinton become that she is willing to pull out the race card more nakedly than any politician of either major party since Junior's daddy and his late buddy Lee Atwater made Willie Horton a household name. Has it truly escaped her that the Americans she is clearly naming by omission as not being "hard-working" (i.e., non-Caucasians) make up more than half the country's population...and thus, the electorate? And how many times have I said that nominating this woman is tantamount to giving the GOP the White House again, on the proverbial silver platter?
This kind of oh-no-she-didn't statement is sure to send even more voters into the arms of her Illinoisan Senate colleague Barack Obama during the eight primaries remaining in the schedule, not to mention those notoriously uncommitted "superdelegates." And should she by some miracle or skullduggery (three guesses which one's more likely, and the first two don't count) wrest the prize from Obama, do you think for one single solitary picosecond that John McCain and company will hesitate to use this against her in the general election campaign? I sure as hell don't.
Mrs. Clinton, let me add my voice to the growing chorus demanding that you brew yourself a nice cup of sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up and withdraw now, while doing so can still save the party and the election.
So apparently desperate has Clinton become that she is willing to pull out the race card more nakedly than any politician of either major party since Junior's daddy and his late buddy Lee Atwater made Willie Horton a household name. Has it truly escaped her that the Americans she is clearly naming by omission as not being "hard-working" (i.e., non-Caucasians) make up more than half the country's population...and thus, the electorate? And how many times have I said that nominating this woman is tantamount to giving the GOP the White House again, on the proverbial silver platter?
This kind of oh-no-she-didn't statement is sure to send even more voters into the arms of her Illinoisan Senate colleague Barack Obama during the eight primaries remaining in the schedule, not to mention those notoriously uncommitted "superdelegates." And should she by some miracle or skullduggery (three guesses which one's more likely, and the first two don't count) wrest the prize from Obama, do you think for one single solitary picosecond that John McCain and company will hesitate to use this against her in the general election campaign? I sure as hell don't.
Mrs. Clinton, let me add my voice to the growing chorus demanding that you brew yourself a nice cup of sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up and withdraw now, while doing so can still save the party and the election.
