War on Women

[k9nanny]

I felt the bile rising with that latest tweet.
A promo for the pageant is my pick. Good one.

[Vrede too]

... The DC assholes shit us again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... 3c9222164c

Congress lets states block some Planned Parenthood money

... In Congress' latest clash mixing the politics of abortion, women's health and states' rights, Pence cast the decisive vote in a 51-50 roll call. The tally had been tied after two GOP senators, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins, joined Democrats opposing the measure....

The Congressional Review Act has lets lawmakers undo regulations enacted in the last months of the Obama administration with a majority vote. Congress has already used the law to eliminate Obama regulations dealing with pollution from coal mining operations and prevented some people with mental disorders from gun purchases....

He had 8 years! Why did Obama wait so long on so many of these things?

[billy.pilgrim]

... The DC assholes shit us again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... 3c9222164c

Congress lets states block some Planned Parenthood money

... In Congress' latest clash mixing the politics of abortion, women's health and states' rights, Pence cast the decisive vote in a 51-50 roll call. The tally had been tied after two GOP senators, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins, joined Democrats opposing the measure....

The Congressional Review Act has lets lawmakers undo regulations enacted in the last months of the Obama administration with a majority vote. Congress has already used the law to eliminate Obama regulations dealing with pollution from coal mining operations and prevented some people with mental disorders from gun purchases....

He had 8 years! Why did Obama wait so long on so many of these things?

As I have been saying for 7 years - obama is a republican. Most of the radical things he did in his last 6 months were to energize the radical right.

He did repug health care, huge tax break for the rich and middle class and working poor tax hike early on.

[rstrong]

He did repug health care,

Only when he simply didn't have the votes for a proper public system. He only had a majority of the votes in Congress, and he needed a supermajority.

huge tax break for the rich

He fought that one. But Republicans had a gun to America's head. "Make Bush's 'temporary' tax holiday for the rich permanent, or the country gets it."

and working poor tax hike early on.

He didn't do too badly on that:

Politifact: Barack Obama said he's cut taxes for 'middle-class families, small businesses'
"Mostly True"

[Vrede too]

Laws are one thing, and Obama cetainly had impediments to getting good ones passed. However, I don't understand the rationale for waiting so long on important regulations that they could be cancelled by a simple congressional simple majority and POTUS signature. Maybe he was just that sure it would be a Dem POTUS.

[Vrede too]

Stop funding sexual harassment

Tell Lexus, Jenny Craig, Rachael Ray, and other companies
Don't support a serial sexual harasser. Pull all your ads from The O'Reilly Factor.

Not that I couldn't come up with a bunch of other reasons to stop funding O'Reilly.

[Vrede too]

That was fast. Who says that petitions don't work?

22 companies pull advertising from 'The O'Reilly Factor'

... The companies are GlaxoSmithKline, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Constant Contact, UNTUCKit, Sanofi, Allstate, Ainsworth Pet Nutrition/Rachael Ray Nutrish, T. Rowe Price, Mitsubishi, Wayfair, MileIQ, Lexus, Bayer, Esurance, Credit Karma, True Car, The Wonderful Company, Society of Human Resources Management, Coldwell Banker and Orkin....

Step up, Jenny Craig.

[k9nanny]

They need to pull advertising from the entire network, not let their ads get assigned to other shows.

[Vrede too]

They need to pull advertising from the entire network, not let their ads get assigned to other shows.

I thought of that, too. One critical step at a time, I guess.

[Vrede too]

Now forty-five advertisers have abandoned Bill O'Reilly, according to SumOfUs.org.

"Now let's set our sights on Microsoft

"Empowering us all" includes women.

and Capital One

Is misogyny in your wallet?

-- two of O'Reilly's last holdout sponsors."

[Vrede too]

Only seven ads run on Thursday's 'O'Reilly Factor'

Just seven advertisements ran on Thursday’s "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News after nearly 60 companies this week reportedly dropped their sponsorships of the highly rated prime-time program.

The hourlong series can run as many as 40 commercials during a typical night....

CNN reports that more than 60 companies have pulled their ads from “The O’Reilly Factor,” including: Mercedes-Benz, Advil, Hyundai, BMW of North America, Mitsubishi Motors, Lexus, Constant Contact, Bayer, Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, Orkin, Untuckit, Allstate, Esurance, T. Rowe Price, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Credit Karma, Wayfair, TrueCar, the Society for Human Resource Management and The Wonderful Company....

[Mr.B]

"Is misogyny in your wallet?"

You'd think that one who uses that word in their everyday branding of someone else would know what it means, or how to apply it. If O'Reilly, or Trump for that matter, were such skirt-chasers, how do you figure they're 'misogynists' ? Just askin' ...

mi·sog·y·ny
(məˈsäjənē) noun

dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women

"she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny"

[Vrede too]

Heard on TV re Trump's defense of O'Reilly, paraphrased: "What, Bill Cosby wasn't available?

Just as on point for anyone defending Trump.

[O Really]

"Is misogyny in your wallet?"

You'd think that one who uses that word in their everyday branding of someone else would know what it means, or how to apply it. If O'Reilly, or Trump for that matter, were such skirt-chasers, how do you figure they're 'misogynists' ? Just askin' ...

mi·sog·y·ny
(məˈsäjənē) noun

dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women

"she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny"

You're joking again, right?
What could better demonstrate "contempt for" than "grab her by the pussy"?
What could better demonstrate "prejudice against women" than seeing them as prey or subservient?

[Mr.B]

"You're joking again, right? "

Just askin' ... how is lustfulness equated with hate?

[Vrede too]

... What could better demonstrate "contempt for" than "grab her by the pussy"?
What could better demonstrate "prejudice against women" than seeing them as prey or subservient?

Yep, I know what "contempt for" and thus misogyny mean. Shame that some fail definitions so miserably.

It's very, very revealing when someone considers sexual assault and workplace harassment and to be mere skirt-chasing. Ick.

[Mr.B]

"It's very, very revealing when someone considers sexual assault and workplace harassment and to be mere skirt-chasing."

I understand your thinking skirt-chasing is icky, but if a (normal) man likes to chase women to the point of harassment, how is that considered hate or prejudice against a woman?

I notice you never mention the word 'misandrist' ...

[k9nanny]

Misogyny is closely related to gynophobia. Throw in a healthy dose of narcissism, and you have Trump, Cosby, O'Reilly.
Men of their ilk desperately need to feel superior, and they feed that need by controlling, objectifying, and humiliating women.

As far as I'm concerned, any man who voted for Trump has a piss poor attitude about women. No man who truly loves and respects women would overlook the contempt coming from him and the Republican party.

It begs the old question, "What if that were your mother/daughter/sister?"

[Vrede too]

As everyone with ethics and half a brain knows, "skirt (or pants)-chasing" can be done legally and respectfully. Only despicable misogynists think that illegal and immoral sexual assault and workplace harassment are natural extensions of skirt-chasing. Ick, again. By that definition stalking and rape are okay, too.

[Mr.B]

"As far as I'm concerned, any man who voted for Trump has a piss poor attitude about women."

That was the only reason that kept you from voting for him?

As far as I'm concerned, anybody who voted for Hillary has a piss poor attitude about the sanctity of life...period.