James Shaw

Can't verify the origin of this, originally, but the person forwarding it to me said it was shared on Face Book by Betty White.

The hypocrisy of today has really astounded me. I couldn't quite get a grip on it until someone sent me this essay on being a woman. I just cried. It is so painfully true and has been for years, even the past eight.

I am not a "disgrace to women" because I don't support the women's march. I do not feel I am a "second class citizen" because I am a woman. I do not feel my voice is "not heard" because I am a woman. I do not feel I am not provided opportunities in this life or in America because I am a woman. I do not feel that I "don't have control of my body or choices" because I am a woman. I do not feel like I am " not respected or undermined" because I am a woman. I am not a "victim" because you say I am.
I AM a woman.
I can make my own choices.
I can speak and be heard.
I can VOTE.
I can work if I want.
I control my body.
I can defend myself.
I can defend my family.
There is nothing stopping me to do anything in this world but MYSELF.
I do not blame my circumstances or problems on anything other than my own choices or even that sometimes in life, we don't always get what we want. I take responsibility for myself.
I am a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister, a friend. I am not held back in life but only by the walls I choose to not go over which is a personal choice.
Quit blaming.
Take responsibility.
If you want to speak, do so. But do not expect for me, a woman, to take you seriously wearing a pink va-jay-jay hat on your head and screaming profanities and bashing men.
If you have beliefs, and speak to me in a kind matter, I will listen. But do not expect for me to change my beliefs to suit yours. Respect goes both ways.
If you want to impress me, especially in regards to women, then speak on the real injustices and tragedies that affect women in foreign countries that do not that the opportunity or means to have their voices heard.
Saudi Arabia, women can't drive, no rights and must always be covered.
China and India, infantcide of baby girls.
Afghanistan, unequal education rights.
Democratic Republic of Congo, where rapes are brutal and women are left to die, or HIV infected and left to care for children alone.
Mali, where women can not escape the torture of genital mutilation.
Pakistan, in tribal areas where women are gang raped to pay for men's crime.
Guatemala, the impoverished female underclass of Guatemala faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead, some of their bodies left with hate messages. Or the 7 year old girls being sold or married off to 60 year old men, Or the millions of women sold and bought into sex trafficking.
And that's just a few examples.
So when women get together in AMERICA and whine they don't have equal rights and march in their clean clothes, after eating a hearty breakfast, and it's like a vacation away that they have paid for to get there...
This WOMAN does not support it.

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

this was written several years ago by Rush Limbaugh as an anonymous letter to a winger site.


...the women's march was a protest against an incoming president of which there is a long and glorious history... It was not about pampered american women on vacation marching for equal rights... do you not see the disconnect here?

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

Proof???

James Shaw

My post has merit in its content, whether you provide the source for yours or not.

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

very hard to find the original essay, at least before 2014... it's been modified and spread out through the lame-stream media and every winger site in the last 24 hours so basically spamming google.

but she's talking about equal rights for women (they've been yakking about that for decades)... funny... nothing about protesting the new prez?

James Shaw

I have heard that there are two major groups marching, one is protesting the new president; the other is marching for women's rights.

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

Allow me to put it as simply as I can so that you folks on the right can understand.
Trump is not the popular winner, even though he is the winner. Three million more people voted for Clinton and an additional 7 Million voted for other candidates.
Don't understand the march? Look below.

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

That's funny coming from the bathroom floor licker!

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

LOL..... Looks to me that "Grandma" needs to have someone change her depends.

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

These marches are just about a group of unattractive broads who are no longer being asked out because of their age and looks. Their looks have gone south along with their brains. Things are no different for women now then they were during the entire presidency of the Muslim hitman. They are paid the same as they were then. Nobody is going to help them with their lonely lonely lives. If they quit attacking everyone with a penis and acted like a lady they may have better luck, but when they chose leaders like Madonna or the Hollywood hypocrites they must accept that their just going to have to live alone.

Rich

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

WOW....did you just put women back in their place.........1901.

You are so out of touch with reality.

Women do NOT make the same salary as men doing the exact same work.

If you are so FOR conservative values, you should be supporting women trying to improve themselves.
Isn't that what the conservative agenda is all about?
Get out of peoples lives so they can negotiate their own salaries and working conditions.

To generalize that all the women who marched are "fat" is so juvenile.

I'm sorry that the only thing you seem to enjoy is spewing hate.

I'll pray for you.

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

Thanks for the prayers, but I never said they didn't make the same money as men. Even the women in odumbo's White House didn't make the same money as men. These women were marching to make the government force people to respect them. I do believe that women doing the same job as men should get the same pay. But let's face it, these broads in Washington were not exactly the cream of the crop. There are some very smart women who have the respect of most men, but Roseanne Barr and Whoopi Goldberg are not in that group. Modonna talking about blowing up the White House is a loon and nobody will ever take her seriously, and the same goes for Ashley Judd. I could go on but I think you get my drift. I do have respect for a lot of women and I would put my mother on the top of that list. Women who get up early in the morning to feed the family get the kids off to school take care of the house, pay the bills and drive the kids to all those after school activities, stay up till midnight doing laundry and making sure everyone has clean clothes for the next day and then get up the next day and do it all over again, those women have my respect. But, they were far too busy to take the weekend off to go to Washington, scream like a banshee and leave the place strewn with all that garbage.

James Shaw

Hilarious!

James Shaw

Very good.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

Are you seriously going to judge EVERY woman who marched by how Rosanne Barr, Whoopi Goldberg and Madonna behave.

You seem to only respect women who "know their place".
Why do you assume that these women didn't make sure their kids were fed and the laundry was done, AND participate in the march?