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YOU WANT TO TELL THEM WHERE TO GO, THEN GO AND VOTE If you want to tell the WASPers to shove it, then do it where it hurts them the most: in the voting booth. Women have more power than they know. The term "Mother Earth" is no accident. "Father Earth" just doesn't work. He doesn't have the gravitas a Mother does. Women are THE the original multi-taskers. Yet women do so much, and get so little in return. They give birth, they nurture the family, they make domestic decisions, raise kids, work inside and outside the home. And yet, they get shafted by old white men who resent women's rising power. Women don't get paid equally for equal work. Women have men tell them what to do with their reproductive organs. But now, women can get "even." Not in terms of revenge, but "equal." By VOTING. By voting together, women can get rid of the old paradigm (old, ignorant white men) and replace it with the new paradigm (multi-racial, multi-gender, "balanced" . NOW is the time for WOMEN to wise up and rise up and VOTE. The voting booth is our secret to survival regaining control of our own lives and our future.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Or is there another meaning to WASP?
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)the writer is talking old guard...
For instance...
The Death of the WASP
After centuries in power, is New Englands old political guard headed for extinction?
You bet your ascot!
By BEN SCHRECKINGER
April 01, 2014
And technically, I'm also a WASP but a far cry from the people being discussed here. As is your wife, I imagine. But you already knew that.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)For example, I've looked through Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches, although not thoroughly (yet), and I haven't found an instance of him saying something about white people. He talks about ideas that some white people have, or many white people have, but never the entirety of white people.
I think this an important distinction.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)Unfortunately, this country seems to be regressing and the people responsible are WASPs. They certainly have no such restrictions on distinguishing between people, and yes, we shouldn't lower ourselves to their level, but dammit, it is tempting.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Actually, my wife is only kinda of Anglo-Saxon decent. Not the English Anglo-Saxons - one of her mother's parents came from Anglia in Germany (up north near Kiel), the other came from Saxony.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)you've got to promise not to tell.
flvegan
(64,409 posts)Wow.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I'd love to see that as a meme, with photos of all different types of hands.
Rebuke the repukes!