Friday, April 22, 2022

I Didn't Say It

Mallory McMorrow, Michigan Democrat State Senator, defending herself from an attack from Republican State Senator Lana Theis:

“I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of ‘parental rights’ if another parent is standing up to say No. You say, ‘She’s a groomer. She supports pedophilia. She wants children to believe that they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about themselves because they’re white.' I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense.”

This is what Democrats need to do. Stand the fuck up and speak the fuck up and call out this lunacy as nothing but a fear tactic meant to scare up votes for the GOP.

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Charlee Corra, child of Roy Disney, Walt’s grandnephew, has come out as transgender—pronouns are he/him and they/them—to speak out against the anti-LGBTQ+ bills that Disney originally failed to condemn:

“I had very few openly gay role models, and I certainly didn’t have any trans or nonbinary role models. I didn’t see myself reflected in anyone, and that made me feel like there was something wrong with me. That’s what makes legislation like the “Don’t Say Gay” law and other anti-trans laws so harmful … They can’t learn about their community and their history at school, or play sports or use the bathroom they want to use?”

It’s all about simple respect, taking people as they are, whether you fully understand it or not.

At the HRC gala, when Corra publicly came out, ha also announced that the Disney family would be matching donations of up to $250,000 at the annual Human Rights Campaign gala in March. Last week, Corra’s father Roy upped the ante to $500,000 in the fundraising email.

Maybe the family can help erase the harm that the company inflicted on the LGBTQ+ community.

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Ian Mackey, openly gay Missouri lawmaker, called out state Representative Chuck Basye’s new bill that allows school districts to vote on banning trans student athletes from youth sports, and brought up Basye’s own gay brother:

“Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he? Why would he think [his family wouldn’t accept him]? I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you to because of stuff like this because this is what you're focused on. This is the legislation you want to put forward. This is what consumes your time ... I was afraid of people like you growing up. Thank God I made it out … I think every day about the kids who are still there who haven't made out, who haven't escaped from this kind of bigotry. Gentlemen, I'm not afraid of you anymore, because you're gonna lose. You may win this today, but you're going to lose.”

They’ve lost already when you realize how they shut people out, their own family members, for a vote, for a political position; they sold their souls for power.

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Tom Suozzi, New York Democrat state Representative, who is running against Governor Kathy Hochul in the Democratic primary, has called a controversial new Florida law aimed at discouraging discussions about sexuality and gender in classrooms “reasonable”:

“I think it’s a very reasonable law not to try to get kids in kindergarten to be talking about sex. I wish it wouldn’t become such a hot button issue where people are just attacking each other—it’s just common sense. I’m very much in favor of equal rights, I’m very much in favor of treating gay people fairly and treating them like the human beings they are.”

And he thinks denying the right to exist in discussions is equal? No one, no one, is saying that kindergartners will be discussing sex, but if the topic of sexual orientation comes up—which, keep in mind, is not about sex, but orientation—simply explain that sometimes men love women, and sometimes men love men, and women love women..

It saddens me that a Democrat is either this ignorant or this pandering.

UPDATE: Suozzi wants to make clear that he doesn’t support Florida’s controversial new law restricting discussion of sexual orientation in schools, despite saying some aspects of it were “reasonable” and made “common sense.”

Uh huh. But that’s exactly what you said, until the public caught wind of it, and now you’re changing your tune.

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Frank Niceley, a Tennessee GOP state Senator, who voted in favor of a bill to cut down on homeless camps spoke on the Senate floor about how Adolf Hitler is an example of hope for the homeless:

“I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a while and I wanted to give a little history on homelessness. In 1910 Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses. And then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.”

Last I checked he wasn’t in the history books for his eloquence, but for the murder of 11,000,000 human beings.

Seriously, Tennessee, this is what you elect to office? That explains your backwoods, back water, toothless cousin fucking state.

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Mayim Bialik, on how she was asked to "tone it down" while hosting, citing how her gender plays a role:

"I think as a woman there's a special consideration, because when women sound definitive or stern it's a different message than when men sound definitive or stern. And a lot of times when people will say, 'Oh, you sound like you think you know it all,' I'll think, 'Gosh, that's just because I'm using an affirmative voice.' One of the neat things about having a woman in this role is it's bringing up a lot of questions about the labels we put on those things. One of my biggest challenges is I'm so impressed that people know the answers that they've asked me to tone down how excited I am when people get them right, which I think is a great note to get."

Personally, I like Bialik on Jeopardy, even more than I like Ken Jennings, and to think they asked her to ‘tone it down’ seems highly misogynistic.

God forbid a woman should sound definitive.

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11 comments:

  1. Women are caught in a cleft stick - be knowledgeable or stand up for what you believe in and you are considered aggressive and unfeminine. Stand back and don't put your views forward and you are called a dumb blonde. How come men win both ways? Oh, yes of course, because they are the superior gender with all the answers. Silly me.

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  2. Oh, I love it when the Dems let the Repugs HAVE IT!
    That's the way to go. Especially the way Ian and Mallory did it: with the receipts.
    Bravo, Charlee.
    Tom is absolutely wrong, of course. No mention of gender appears in the curriculum until much later in primary school. Pity he thinks he has to kiss the ass of the bigots to win.
    Oh, and fuck Niceley.

    XOXO

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  3. McMorrow's speech made headlines and Theis became a 'no comment.'

    I'm sure great uncle Walt is spinning in his grave.

    Mackey smacked back, something Republicans are not used to. We need more like him!

    I wonder when the Suozzi campaign will go on hiatus.

    Niceley the Nazi... has a nice ring to it.

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  4. wow! Lots of content. Good thing
    I had my coffee first!
    xoxo :-)

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  5. I love reading the words and thoughts of people standing up against ignorance and hate.

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  6. I’m focusing on the enlightened and eloquent here.

    Tom Suozzi will have to stop those kids from talking about their parents, too. They had sex to produce them.

    Frank Nicely is, frankly, misnamed.

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  7. The GOP IS relentless on its oppression lately

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  8. I hope more folks start speaking up and tell the GOP where to go with their jackassery!

    Have a great weekend, sweetpea! xoxo

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  9. So many politicians, so few brains

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  10. Yes, you're right about Mallory McMorrow. That is EXACTLY what we need to hear from other Democrats. The left and center have allowed themselves to be defined by the right for way, way too long -- starting with the way "liberal" was turned into a dirty word.

    Bialik's take on authoritative women is interesting. I think that's a huge part of why so many people take issue with Hillary Clinton. They can't stand a smart, authoritative woman.

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  11. Love Mayim Bialik -and you are right. Very misogynistic of Jeopardy.

    Nicely... not living up to his name. What in the world? We're recommending that homeless people be like Hitler? F 'em. Vote that dinosaur outta office. Unfit to serve.

    Suozzi - speaking like every other politician - outta both sides of their necks.

    Mackey... my heart to him. And yes... hear something - SAY SOMETHING!

    Disney... meh.

    Again... McMorrow - yes. hear something? SAY SOMETHING.

    Thanks for the feed, Bob.

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