Happy Song!

heyyyyyyyyyy I’ve never been first on the new blog!

Love the Tweety Prayer- yep–everyday is a new day with no mistakes in it…until I open my mouth (ha!)
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goodnight, Murphy. goonght, PUMAs

good night lin4hill

Dances, the bridge was built to split during an earthquake? for real?

TrishfromCanada 11.18.08 at 11:58 pm
Dances, the bridge was built to split during an earthquake? for real?
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Yeep! Fer real. the whole middle section just plops hundreds of feet into the water… it’s for the ships… high masts, or whatever theyre called on Navey vessels, so they can get through… something like that. Google The Coroanado Bridge (San Diego or Coronado CA)…. the darker part of the bridge is the fall away section.

Trish,
check out the comic relief section of the action center,I think youll like the second picture…….

blue blue blue blue

TrishfromCanada 11.19.08 at 12:04 am
Wow the toll on the bridge is 1.00 and annually they collect 8 million dollars, that’s an incredible amount of traffic over a bridge
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They did away with the toll 10 years ago. They made that much money because there’s a huge naval station there and people commute from this side of the bay.

MURPHY:
I’ve just been lurking for quite awhile, but I had to laugh when I saw your 3 in a row posts.

DANCES:
Your real name isn’t Lillian by any chance?

goofsmom
You would hyperventilate driving in the Lincoln Tunnel…
I know I did! It takes forevaaaa to get through that thing.

Murphy,

Maybe we could partner with NOW somehow and reach their audience. Hmmmm. Of course, they’re in the tank for BO and wouldn’t want us to upset the apple-cart or create an alternate platform. But I feel the window of opportunity on establishing the PUMA identity could close.

ayyaiyai….partnering with NOW…
where’s that quote of the day?

ayyaiyai….partnering with NOW…
where’s that quote of the day?

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Establishment feminism has committed hari kiri in public this year and it’s a fucking disaster. It’s like the NAACP sponsoring a lynching.”
Dr. Violet Sox, via Blue Lyon

DANCES:
No, but my mom’s name is LILLIAN!

Nobo’s bc

If indeed his bc is from Kenya (duh, as if we didn’t already know that) he is going to need those dvd’s and coin money to pay off the money he illegally took for donations. I guess it is time to see if the Supreme court truly represents the constitution or not. I do not believe it is over yet.

lol Tennasee I was looking at the picture of the exudus to Canada and I swear I saw Bo n’ Mo driving one of those cars. I think he got his new job descrition and ran for the hills.

in response to a post “downstairs” ?(do i have that right?) when i first introduced myself, yes, i was at the rally at Denver but if i met anyone specific i couldn’t tell you the names, as that was just at the beginning of my pumadom

TrishfromCanada
“exudus to Canada”
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it’s ok Trish they did not let him cross the border due to his terrorist
associations …….

claracat…
“pumadom”

There are many reasons why only 20% will identify themselves as a feminist. One reason is that the term has been negatively defined by the media and groups that do not want egalitarianism to succeed. Some will tell you feminists are “bra burning” radicals. Again, another story that caught on fire by the media. Some will tell you that feminists are “male bashers” and want all for themselves. The point I am trying to make is that people who are not willing to identify with the term have only hearn negative descriptions of feminism. What feminism stands for has been drowned out by the negative images spelled out by the media and these groups. Yes, there are different types or subsets of feminist groups. Some are more progressive than others. I tend to like the definition of feminism by Hyde as being an individual who prefers the economic, political, and social equality of both men and women. In so doing, a feminist favors the social and legal changes that are needed to attain this equality. In addtion, there are male feminists as well as female feminists.

Therefore, based on the above definition, I am proud to say that I am a feminist. The name PUMA should stay as it is. It means “always alert and ready to take action” just like the animal. Just MHO.

lilibet, I bought blueberries on my way home this evening.

Ok, I’m gonna tell a cute story just cause this grey box is all mine for a minute.

When my dog was alive, I’d take him blueberry picking with me. He so loved it, I’d let him go off-leash over the hills. He’d run back every few minutes, mostly when he couldn’t see me anymore. He’d open his mouth and cover a blueberry patch, close his mouth and pull back. The berries would fall in his mouth and the branches would pop out. LOL I laugh so much remembering that. I’d call him by berry scooper for rest of the day. If I turned by back he’d run over and bury his face in the bucket and munch away.

Trish…sweet.

then maybe

yes, HiHat. I guess I opened it to cook and forgot. Haven’t gotten enough sleep lately I think.

Oh, and yes, of course the name should stay the same…say, how has it come to be that a man, such as yourself, cares about women’s issues like you do?…is it inherent or…jus’ wonderin’

PUMAbear 11.19.08 at 12:16 am said:
Maybe we could partner with NOW somehow and reach their audience. Hmmmm. Of course, they’re in the tank for BO and wouldn’t want us to upset the apple-cart or create an alternate platform. But I feel the window of opportunity on establishing the PUMA identity could close.
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HUH? We’ve GOT an identity. We’re the feminists who support centrist practical women like Hillary and Sarah — rather than like NOW etc going off on single issue eltist PC witch hunts.

If we want to reach NOW’s audience, let’s attack NOW, put up an anti-NOW website or something.

Kat #58

Well, I suppose all the credit must go to my Mother. It’s always just been natural for me to think of women as equals.

Or superior…

The label of feminist always seemed to be too restrictive to me. I never felt comfortable with it. I have decided that Dances womanist is what I am. Equal and with the right to chose any path I want to take. I never felt that feminist gave me that right.

NOW should change their name. NOFFLWBWACTMOWSWS. National organization for far left women but we also cater to men over women so we suck.

or sumpthin more abbreviated.

I don’t want to be equal with men, that’d be a downward spiral… I want men to be equal to women.

I like “womanist”. Hear us roar in numbers too big to ignore.

I want men to be men…whatever that really means…and love them for it. I really appreciate natural maleness and real men. I’m repulsed by mysogyny and the little worms who hide behind it.

I want to be women in the fullness of it without a discussion. I want it to be taken for granted. If not for us, then for our daughters.

Trish, yeah, he he, now I am thinking…doing the consonant rhyme thing…bow, cow, dow, fow, gow, how,…..hmmm.

HiHat, no. It does not count. And since I read what you put, half a dozen curses have swirled through my mind. make. it. stop. lol

ATTENTION —- Murphy

Take a look at …

http://www.socwomen.org/page.php?sss=87

BY: DR. ANN GOETTING

*** Dr. Goetting was one of my professors when I was in graduate school. Also, if you get a free minute, type in her name under search. You can get an idea of her “causes” etc … I got to know Dr. Goetting and have a few ideas of how she may want to help. Just let me know what you think!

SouthernGAL68

Woman after my own heart with all your dogs. Bless you for taking care of the unwanted.

Remember/Nov.

Oh! I ran you off (HA!) before I could tell you how sorry I am to hear abou the loss of your pet! It is like losing a family member.

i’m sweepy

Everybody’s right. NOW committed hari kari acouple of decades ago and are now wallowing in the gore! Thatwill teach me to muse on a website. Just thinking. Think we should keep PUMA-nice pussycat. Also like the idea of aggressively TAKING ON NOW. How could we do it?

Kat in the hat,

If yall (we) can put some ideas together, Dr. Goetting is always up for a good fem. cause! I say yall more than me, because I am new to all of this … but I would like to help anyway I can (even if it means just getting the right people together.)

kat in your hat You better pick up a broom and go to sweep then.

I like the idea of PUMA becoming the female counterpart to NOW. LOL

DancesWithPumas 11.19.08 at 1:17 am

Congrats, Kat.

And now it’s time for me to go. Gotta get some writing done.

Sweet Dreams, Pumas.

yay! I am immortal! danke.

yes, me go beddy bye bye.

sweet dreams, pumas xoxoxoxox

RemVem…
I’m sorry for your loss. It’s difficult, I know.

With that, I am off to bed… and only 29 minutes later than I’d planned.

‘nighi, Puma Nation. Sweet Dreams

Remember/Nov.

I have been a puma for maybe a month or better. I am sorry to say, but you have asked the wrong person. I do now that I saw someone on an earlier blog, so you might want to check it out. I apologize that I am NO HELP to you! ( I was at work most of the day, so I just took a quick glance through the post)

PUMAbear 11.19.08 at 1:16 am
Everybody’s right. NOW committed hari kari a couple of decades ago and are now wallowing in the gore! That will teach me to muse on a website. Just thinking. Think we should keep PUMA-nice pussycat. Also like the idea of aggressively TAKING ON NOW. How could we do it?
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PUMAbear we take on NOW by having some of our Puma members join NOW in prominent cities, where their headquarters are located, and get copies of their membership’s mailing and emailing list and start emailing them the Puma Mission Statement.
But until Puma adopts a Mission Statement, outlining exactly what their goals are, we are just wasting our time spinning and spinning the world goes round, as they say…

My suggestion for a couple of the goals for the Mission Statement could be:
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal pay for equal work.
Encouraging more women to enter politics etc.

ok i will turn the lights off.Gees allways my job.(((PUMAS)))

I have a problem with Margaret Carlson’s article titled “Queen Bee” about Palin so I fired off two emails to her.

Sorry this is so long:

Just so you can see that there is another view on Palin.

I don’t expect you to read it, much less buy into it…but I expect
you will see a lot more positive Palin reactions when people
begin to see the back story of this campaign.

Institutions are falling all around us and the media should be
the next one to go down. Just as Obama’s friends at Acorn
took down the housing market,by invading banks, signing up
people who could never afford loans, and getting into the pockets of
the government and it’s agencies, all of which led to the downfall of the
housing market and the financial supporting network of that market…

the revelations of the twisted reporting and bias of the
media should take down those entities that people will come
to realize did nothing but lie to them and hinder the truth.
Obama is the least vetted candidate ever and the media, including you,
failed to do it’s job. You spread rumors and innuendo rather than
reporting. It took the British press to actually get out some true
stories about Obama. While the U.S. press talked about clothing
costs concerning ONE member, Sarah Palin. I didn’t hear anyone
talking about the money that Obama’s campaign cannot account
for where it came from that runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

You are writing a column, making a living, but you gave up your
real power.

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81267

The Palin-bashers
Posted: November 18, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

Just who are the amorphous individuals attacking Gov. Sarah Palin as not being smart enough to have been vice president? What makes her less capable than Joe Biden? In retrospect, if Biden was such a brilliant pick, and if Michelle Obama is so intelligent, why were both kept off the main stage in the closing weeks of the presidential race – while Sarah Palin was increasingly in public view?

I submit they are comprised of two factions – the first being those that never wanted her to be vice president – the other, those who are afraid she may succeed as a presidential candidate in 2012. Lumped into both groups are those who don’t have a clue, which includes elitist Republicans who place a higher value on a person’s alma mater than they do a person’s ability.

The accusations now surfacing is that Gov. Palin isn’t “smart enough” to even consider running for president, to which one might argue: like Al Gore and John Kerry were, and like Joe Biden is – but I digress. A pre-eminent business leader told me many years ago, “You don’t have to be super smart to be successful – you just have to be smart enough to surround yourself with people who are.”

To that point, Sarah Palin is not only smart enough to surround herself with smart people, but she is also both smart and capable. Her record of accomplishment in barely two years as governor of Alaska is extraordinary. She is a proven fiscal conservative who puts the best interests of the people ahead of “good ol’ boy” politics and policies, and she isn’t hesitant to take on malevolent factions of her own party. She holds to traditional values, not as a mace, but as a way of life.

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She restructured her state’s pre-existing severance tax on oil and gas production, renegotiating thstructure in full public view, and the rebated part of the resulting surplus went directly to taxpayers. She ended a multi-year stalemate over the financing and construction of a $40 billion cross-state pipeline that supplies cheaper natural gas to Alaskans and the lower 48 states. That single act alone did more to advance American energy independence than Biden, Obama or McCain can boast collectively. In her capacity as being responsible for the Alaskan National Guard, she authorized 521 missions that saved 200 lives.

As governor, she is responsible for her decisions. She cannot hide behind rhetoric as “having sponsored” a piece of legislation or having gotten a committee chairmanship based on seniority alone. Nor does she have the option (or inclination if she did) to vote yea, nay or present.

At the time of her being announced as the vice-presidential candidate, she had an approval rating of 87 percent – unlike Congress, which, depending upon the poll one views, had an approval rating of 9 or 10 percent with a disapproval rating of 78 percent.

Fox News reporter Carl Cameron acted as interlocutor, breathlessly revealing how unnamed sources were spilling theretofore whispered details of what Gov. Palin was actually like. The problem is, as Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren exposed on her show, the things he reported never happened. We have yet to see Cameron eagerly sharing that fact as breaking news.

Sarah Palin and those like her are the future of the Republican Party. Conservatism is not dead – moderates are the losers in this election. No liberal has been elected by outing themselves as same. They become centrists, moving center and center-right (remember the elections of 2006). Obama, who is recognized by other liberals as the most liberal liberal in Congress, spent the last two months of the campaign running center-right.

The attacks are coming from those who fear what Gov. Palin represents. They fear not being able to convince enough people to oppose her unless they start savaging her now. I am also inclined to believe that a good number of those spreading the lies and misinformation are either from, will be or desire to be part of a certain former and future presidential hopeful loser, who fancies himself a contender in 2012.

Sarah Palin is good for our party – she is good for America. And trust me, those attacking her do so because they fear her ability to connect with voters. They wouldn’t waste their efforts if this were not the case. To those who say she isn’t “smart enough,” I say she doesn’t have to be an Adams, Jefferson, Madison or Reagan; she just has to be smart enough to know it and surround herself with capable people. And keep in mind that Ronald Reagan was attacked as not being intelligent enough, while Bill Clinton was hailed as being supremely intelligent.

Palin didn’t lose the race for McCain – he lost it himself despite her giving him a tremendous boost going into the closing weeks of the campaign. She is, however, the reason his six-point loss wasn’t a double-digit loss.

First email to Margaret:
Your “Queen Bee, Palin” article is hopelessly idiotic.

During this election the public has had to put up with the worst media writers ever and you just happen to be one of them.

You are a woman yet you bought into and sell the Obama camp created image of Palin without even looking for facts or at the facts that exist.

Now Obama wants to compare himself to Lincoln? So the guy writers are building him up as a Lincoln character without even looking at the vast differences between the two, and the times they lived in, the situations they have/had to deal with, and the fact that Lincoln started a war that pit brother against brother in the US. Well, maybe that is exactly what Obama plans to do.

Women writers like yourself will keep taking on the job of men, which is to keep uppity women in their place. Maybe you can even take away our right to vote. That’s the way it was during Lincoln’s day.

Lincoln tried to move the country forward. Every month more books come out evaluating how he did, more that a century ago. Maybe that is all Obama cares about also. Books about himself.

There will be books written about this campaign and Presidency long after it is over, but I sincerely doubt that there will be favorable opinions about what went on in this country, during this election.

So a guy becomes President, who kept saying he wanted to take the country into the 21st century, while nearly every person in the media seem to be helping him to throw back this country into the 19th century.

While you are at it why don’t you publish a few more untruths about Hillary since she has had it easy after the DNC selected Obama against the voters in the primarys.
If you don’t know that it true, then you may be a writer but you will never be an investigative journalist. You will simply be an image pusher. The truth will come out and betray those who only cared to create an image and put him into the White House.

You got what you wanted. Obama got what he wanted. Now lets see what he does with it.

In the meantime, if you are going to write about Palin, how about doing something more than interpreting your own opinion of events.

It is a sad commentary on the times when a guy makes
up a web site, says that he is in the McCain camp and all of the “journalists” reports as fact the trash that came out of a made up person’s website. And that is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what writers have reported as “truth” in this pitiful example of journalism for the past
year.

The best outcome of this campaign would be for the major media to go out of business, because people can no longer trust the “reports” coming out of them.

Excuse the long post, but since no one’s about at this hour, it won’t interrupt anything.
Logistics Monster, who begged anti-O and PUMA and feminist blogs a few days ago to “Stop Preaching to the Choir”, has a red-hot follow-up. He’s not impressed with HRC’s flip-flop, to say the least http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/11/17/same-as-it-ever-was/ :

Four days ago I wrote Stop Preaching To The Choir about what ALL anti-obamanation voters will need to do to defeat The One in 4 years. I know quite a few of you have read and commented on it and maybe, I am once again, ahead of my time or a legend in my own mind….I don’t know which, BUT damn, if it is not still ringing true.

Tomorrow will mark two weeks since our country was bamboozeled into voting for the empty chair and now I am reading that Senator Clinton will accept the SOS job from, of all newspapers?….the Guardian UK. This post is not all about HRC, but I thought I would throw the tidbit out there.

Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.

Obama’s advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton’s foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem.

Clinton would be well placed to become the country’s dominant voice in foreign affairs, replacing Condoleezza Rice. Since being elected senator for New York, she has specialised in foreign affairs and defence. Although she supported the war in Iraq, she and Obama basically agree on a withdrawal of American troops.

Clinton, who still harbours hopes of a future presidential run, had to weigh up whether she would be better placed by staying in the Senate, which offers a platform for life, or making the more uncertain career move to the secretary of state job.

So there you have it. The final nail in HRC’s coffin with her base, and one can hope that it will be the end of her political career as The One will throw her to the lions when it suits him. Does that anger some people? It should not; what should anger you is that she betrayed her promise to you, me, and the rest of the 18 million, campaigned for the empty suit and now is going to be doing his bidding, giving up a more powerful position and joining the Progressive Socialist Party. Oops, did I say joining? That is incorrect, since I know from my research for the Socialism articles that she was trained by Alinsky too and is an integral part of bringing globalism to our shores. Are any of the scales falling from your eyes yet?

Please take a moment to think about this; she did not have to campaign her soul out for him, did she? She does not have to take the position of SOS, does she? Did The One pay off her campaign debt YET? Please ask yourselves, what is her payoff? What does she gain from crawling up from the foot of the bed?

Now, back to the post at hand. Same as it ever was…..I just took a jaunt around to the PUMA sites and the conservative blogs and by and large they are STILL TALKING ABOUT THE SAME OLD SHIT! Misogyny, sexism, Hillary don’t do it, and why Obama beat the Republicans. Excuse me…but how long is it going to take people to WAKE UP? Are all you folks going to be talking about these same issues in 4 years when this bastard gets re-elected? Have you taken the time to join all the grassroots efforts, (PUMA and Conservative, no matter what your party affiliation), listed in the blogroll in LARGE CAPS? That is what it is going to take to nail his ass the second time around, and keep the global socialists from being in power for more than 8 freakin’ years.

I am thinking that if everybody is going to be sitting around blogging and bitching about the same old stuff, then you might as well pack it up right now….you are not doing anything but exactly what The One wants you to. He wants you bitching about the little issues and not forming the grassroots army to match his own that is already light years ahead of his opposition and is growing moment by moment. You are not paying attention to what will make the difference, you are just having one big pity party. Meanwhile, this snake oil salesman: [photo of Obama] and this group of power and money hungry frauds: [photo of Franks, Reid, Pelosi, Dodd] are going to be controlling this country and turning it into another EU State along with the help of the Clintons.

Oops, that last line is supposed to be outside the quote, it’s not VDH’s.

BrianH 11.19.08 at 3:56 am
It’s a very interesting observation that only the newspapers and TV and radio stations that accommodate or cater to conservative views are surviving and thriving financially. All the heavy hitters of the left, from ABCCBSNBCMSNBC to NYT and LAT and WaPo, are crashing and sinking in red ink. Meanwhile, FOX and WSJ and WaTimes and talk radio stations are strong and getting stronger
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Do you have a theory why that’s happening? Conservative media subsidized by the big money interests? Too many liberal media, the liberal audience is spread too thin?

sandipuma 11.19.08 at 2:53 am

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#105
wish you could post the site you found this article

A new kick in the guts for Roe – aren’t we glad it’s Obama and not that evil Palin?
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/roe-gets-another-kick-in-the-guts-will-obama-do-something/

turndownobama 11.19.08 at 5:41 am

brianH quoted LogisticsMonster: Please take a moment to think about this; she did not have to campaign her soul out for him, did she? She does not have to take the position of SOS, does she?
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No; perhaps yes.

Campaigning and SOS are two dfferent sitautions. Helping Obama get elected was unnecessary and disappointing. Now that he is elected, keeping him from starting WWIII may be necessary.//
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Or giving the country away to Islam International Rampant. Good luck to her; she and we will need it.

This election has proved you can fool enough of the people enough of the time.

sue66 I’m going to be nice today:

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!

For those interested, I posted this Rally. I just feel we should remind our government that we cannot afford to pay for illegal immigrants. They do not pay taxes, but can use our medical facilities, etc. (for free many times) They get jobs that others may need, etc. If you do not feel the same, just ignore the Rally.
Thanks.

http://www.rallycongress.com/savetheusa/726/

mkp651 Sounds like a good teacher!! Need more like her!

PUMA was formed to counteract the Obama candidacy. The allegations of PUMAs as racists or “clandestine” Republicans is absurd, but those lies are actually indicative of the impact that PUMA has had in a short time. The reactions against detractors of Governor Palin and Senator Clinton also indicate that voters loathe smear-politics-as-usual promoted by the media and by both political parties, especially given the national crises we face at this time. Despite the pitfalls, I would like to see Clinton as SOS since she can be trusted to rein the stupidity and grandiosity of both the President and Vice-President elect in a turbulent international arena.

I hope PUMA joins forces with The New Agenda to provide a safer environment for women in politics in the future. Don’t lose sight of the fact that PUMA was instrumental in leading us to question and scrutinize media propaganda and political parties. We’ve made an important in-road and trail-blazing, while never easy, means that others will follow.

MURPHY

I want to digress for a minute and put my 2 cents in on the “feminist ” label . I have long held the opinion that feminist and feminism in general has never been enough . In everything women have ever had to do , they have never been required to be equal to men . We have ALWAYS had to be BETTER in order to get half of the recognition .
Every single man on earth was born through the pain of a woman .And Whether she gave birth in the fields or after a 15 hour labor , she did it alone , even when she was surrounded by family and her spouse , the pain was hers – alone .
As each woman examines her own personal herstory , the physical , emotional, and societal hurdles annointed to her by virtue of her sex have required her to do more , be more and acheive more than ANY man – even if her sole occupational choice is that of wife and mother .
From childbirth , to withstanding torture through feetbinding or vaginal mutilation , to Ginger Rodgers dancing every step with Fred Astaire backwards and in heels to General Dunwoody who had to work 33 years and hold 2 grad . degrees and multiple service medals to be recognized , my observation of women in society is that striving to be “equal” to men is a demotion from the reality that women are , by birth , infinitely superior .
I believe that the struggle to be recognized as equal to our male counterparts is an illusion created by a patriarchial society that if fully aware of the complex capabilities of ALL women and it scares the shit out of them .
I used to use the word feminist to describe myself until I was placed in a position where I KNEW that being equal to my coworkers, my fellow Marines , who obviously enlisted with a meritorious medal via their Y chromosome , would NEVER be enough to advance my career .
Women have to be better – so we are . Since that time I turned in my ‘feminist’ title to the upgraded , and more appropriate moniker , “Philogynist” . it is the OPPOSITE OF mysogynist and one who esteems women as a HIGHER type of humanity .

Of course I am “always wrong” but I am very passionate in my misguided incorrectness lol

TT:
You make many good points. One point that I have always tried to get across to my daughters: Don’t ever think you have to ask a man for permission to succeed. They are not the one in charge of YOU. YOU are in Charge of YOU. No matter who puts up the obstacles, you are the one who can tear them down. Don’t ask for their permission; just do whatever it is that you do with all your might. Give yourself permission to succeed.