Comments on: what’s wrong with this picture? http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2010/05/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ exciting, informative, snarky, and very likely fabricated tales of life as an american expat in london Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:06:21 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2010/05/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-4317 Jen Mon, 31 May 2010 21:02:07 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=3022#comment-4317 wow - a pregnant woman heading the military?! that's fantastic. but there is always so much further to go... wow – a pregnant woman heading the military?! that’s fantastic.

but there is always so much further to go…

]]> By: blues http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2010/05/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-4313 blues Sun, 30 May 2010 09:48:31 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=3022#comment-4313 Great post. Here in Spain the current government has had more women than any other previous government here. The biggest shocker was selecting a pregnant woman to head the military. It was awesome. But ethnic minorities? Oh that's a LONG ways away here. Great post. Here in Spain the current government has had more women than any other previous government here. The biggest shocker was selecting a pregnant woman to head the military. It was awesome. But ethnic minorities? Oh that’s a LONG ways away here.

]]> By: daddio http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2010/05/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-4307 daddio Fri, 28 May 2010 04:22:49 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=3022#comment-4307 so, just caught up on your last 5 blogs...bit of a theme here. how do we shape little girls and honor the women who raise us? are enough women (of color and otherwise) willing to tough it out to the finish line for things that are politically important...like representation? and since you brought up the iron maiden, how the hell did she get to run the country? so, here we go...pink is a great color, more and more men are sporting pink shirts these days, so i am not sure that the color theory holds water as to how they influence us to become the people we grow to become. the only real way to power is through the purse string so i am not so the cash till isn't a fantastic little girls toy to learn that early. flowers, yes we buy flowers because most women love the idea that they are treated special, at least 1/365ths of the time. yes, give money to heal fistulas, but not on mother's day! some women endure and will take up the struggle for others who don't. this has been true for much my life in the us of a. so today supreme court judges, senators, representives, judges, mayors and governors are today just as likely to be a woman, an african-american, a lesbian, a jew or a white man. nobody gives you nothing and if you want something you have to put in the full 26 miles of training and struggle to get to the finish line. that is why margaret thacher could become who she became...the woman was tough as nails, just the wrong political bend. power is not given, it is taken. why in the world would you give away power? those white guys got it because they wanted it...bad. so, just caught up on your last 5 blogs…bit of a theme here. how do we shape little girls and honor the women who raise us? are enough women (of color and otherwise) willing to tough it out to the finish line for things that are politically important…like representation? and since you brought up the iron maiden, how the hell did she get to run the country?

so, here we go…pink is a great color, more and more men are sporting pink shirts these days, so i am not sure that the color theory holds water as to how they influence us to become the people we grow to become. the only real way to power is through the purse string so i am not so the cash till isn’t a fantastic little girls toy to learn that early. flowers, yes we buy flowers because most women love the idea that they are treated special, at least 1/365ths of the time. yes, give money to heal fistulas, but not on mother’s day! some women endure and will take up the struggle for others who don’t. this has been true for much my life in the us of a. so today supreme court judges, senators, representives, judges, mayors and governors are today just as likely to be a woman, an african-american, a lesbian, a jew or a white man. nobody gives you nothing and if you want something you have to put in the full 26 miles of training and struggle to get to the finish line. that is why margaret thacher could become who she became…the woman was tough as nails, just the wrong political bend. power is not given, it is taken. why in the world would you give away power? those white guys got it because they wanted it…bad.

]]> By: Amity http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/2010/05/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-4305 Amity Tue, 18 May 2010 20:18:29 +0000 http://www.jensdenofiniquity.com/?p=3022#comment-4305 Oh *hell* yes! I like this line especially: "if you can’t get women and non-whites to stand for you, it’s because of what you stand for." I could not agree more. well bloody said. Oh *hell* yes! I like this line especially:

“if you can’t get women and non-whites to stand for you, it’s because of what you stand for.”

I could not agree more. well bloody said.

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