aaaaand we have a Facebook copy and paste about the Women's March

[underpants]

I've seen this posted twice on Facebook just this morning.


"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 can stay home 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 have 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... " copied and pasted from a woman named liz because I agree!

PS... copied from a woman named Debra because i also agree.

[TrekLuver]

1. And this woman can thank all the women who came before her to fight for these rights

that she is currently enjoying. How nice to live in a world where the fight for equal rights is over. Fucking fantasy land.

[AuntPatsy]

2. Exactly!

[Wounded Bear]

3. Typical 'self actualizing' bullshit, with a 'feminist' tone...

I remember a job interview from a few years back. One of the questions involved how I would 'feel' if I hadn't advanced in a few months or years, and how much blame would I place on 1. self, 2. employer/boss, 3. externals like economy, etc?

It took me a minute to decipher what he wanted to hear. He wanted me to say that if I didn't advance at his company, it would be 100% my fault. Nothing else would contribute to that.

I didn't get the job, and as I drove away I found myself knowing that I didn't want it, even as deperate as I was at the time.

This is a bloated, whiny example of my mother telling me, at about age 6 or 8, to eat my dinner because kids are starving in Africa. Didn't make any sense then, doesn't make sense now.

[hedda_foil]

4. Underpants, for 16 years I've thought you were a guy. You're a woman???

[underpants]

8. Lemme check

Nope. Man.

I was joke posting what I've seen on Facebook.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. "I have my own voice."

"Which is why I'm cutting and pasting someone else's writing."

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Heh.

[Barack_America]

6. Likely actually written by a man to keep conservative women in check.

And someone who clearly is trying to frame the March without having watched.

Did I miss the referenced woman and man-bashing?

[Afromania]

7. This point of view is garbage

There is somebody elsewhere that has it worse than us so you shouldn't complain. That privilege is shining real bright there. The reason she has those rights is somebody protested. The rights that Republican men and the women enthralled to them seem perfectly happy to strip away. Further more if she gives such a damn about any of the countries and peoples she listed why doesn't she get off her ass and fight for them?

The answer is that she probably never has and never will. Nah, her and the people like her aren't going to do that, they'll never do that. What they'll do is sit on their hands and enjoy their privilege and keep their mouth shut as long as they get along and get by. Everybody else will do the heavy lifting and when it's done they'll enjoy the same gains as the people that fought the fight. Then have the audacity to talk about how good somebody has it.