Friday, April 25, 2025
Democrats Need a Divorce. Right Now!
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Feminine
I was never much of a feminist. I love my femininity and enjoy being treated like a lady. I am grateful I am a strong intelligent woman with a well-developed conscience, sense of justice, thoughtful opinions, and the discernment to show compassion or disdain as the situation demands. I inherited those qualities from two wonderful parents - a quiet, deceptively strong, kind, and creatively talented mother, and a funny, loving, hardworking father with a wide, deep sense of justice, and a temper that could erupt like a volcano but cooled as quickly. Theirs was a very traditional marriage in most ways, yet they both worked and shared housework and childcare before it was a "thing" among couples.
Two of the most influential women in my career(s) competed with men as women, not as men. Fully embracing their femininity while getting scrappy as needed, they were excellent role models for me. I feel so lucky to have worked with and learned from them: one was Eleanor Fisher Benjamin, RN, dedicated mom to 2 boys (men now), and wife of Rhode Island State Police Major Lionel Benjamin; the other was Rhode Island's first female Secretary of State and longtime general manager of WSBE Rhode Island PBS (Channel 36), Susan Farmer.
They both have passed on, and I am positive they would be as puzzled (and pissed) as I about WTF is going on now.
Women and girls have the right NOT be encroached upon by men in women's spaces. This seems like a perverted revenge for the radical feminazi movement that insisted every man's space could be infiltrated by women. But this is retaliation with a vengeance.
Trans rights are no stronger or more important than women's rights. We have to find a compromise - and soon - because the way it is going now is unsustainable. No biological men or boys should be permitted in women's sports, women's locker rooms, women's toilets, women's spas... and when I say women, I include girls. We must especially protect our children.
We must also protect the differences between the two human sexes. Compassion is needed, but reality must prevail, whether there is valid gender confusion or deliberate choice of the biologically invalid.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Systemic Racism: It's not about you and me, Baby.
I know, I know. It's often the one who says she's not racist who IS. But I really do prefer to judge you by the content of your character. I admit I hold that bar high. That's because I value myself, my affection, and my time (advice I suggest you apply in your own life).
I also prefer to surround myself with people who don't hate me, no matter what color their (or my) skin may be.
Defensively, I denied the vast - and stubbornly pervasive - accusation of "systemic racism." That's just not me!
But it is a great catchy phrase intended to shock you into guilt and shame - and silence.
Let's pick apart the words in the accusation, though. "Systemic racism" means racism in the system - not personal racism between people. No, that's what the leftist communists want you to believe - they expect you to accept YOU are the problem.
But what about some of the social systems politicians have put into place? Aah... now we catch a glimpse into the real examples of systemic racism.
What do you think of the practice of forcing poor women to keep the fathers of their children OUT of the house to qualify for public assistance? If that is not THE most systemically exploitive and rotten thing to do to families, I do not know what else is. Let me speculate: It causes generational poverty, keeps men unmotivated and unaccountable to achieve anything, makes it easier to fall into bad company, bad habits, drug sales and addiction, and, if incarcerated, the revolving door of recidivism. Add gangs for a sense of family, loyalty, and community, which all humans need, but men seem to need even more... Am I way off?
Government is not your friend, or a friend of American families. In fact, it is the opposite. Free money sounds good, but it's never enough money to raise a woman out of poverty, and it demoralizes and foments lack of responsibility in a man who may have made a mistake and was jailed, then prevents him from redeeming himself and living up to his obligation to family and to himself. While this policy affects any man, it appears Black men are hardest hit by this destructive cycle. (And there it is! Systemic racism - racism in the system.)
I guess until this Trojan horse government practice of "public assistance" is reformed, it can be defined as solid proof of "systemic racism" everyone's complaining about.
But never accept the lie that "systemic racism" is between you and me.
Hansan, J.E. (2011). Origins of the state and federal public welfare programs (1932-1935). Social Welfare History Project. https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/origins-of-the-state-federal-public-welfare-programs/

