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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:08 PM Aug 2014

"If you wanna do this..."

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&quot . 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.



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"If you wanna do this..." (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2014 OP
My wife's a WASP. MannyGoldstein Aug 2014 #1
I imagine in this instance babylonsister Aug 2014 #2
I think we should fight ideas, not people. MannyGoldstein Aug 2014 #3
To his credit, Dr. King probably didn't. babylonsister Aug 2014 #4
WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant n/t ReRe Aug 2014 #6
That's what I was thinking MannyGoldstein Aug 2014 #9
if you wanna know a secret hfojvt Aug 2014 #5
WASPers? flvegan Aug 2014 #7
Oh yeah babylonsister! lovemydog Aug 2014 #8

babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
2. I imagine in this instance
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:21 PM
Aug 2014

the writer is talking old guard...

For instance...

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/new-england-wasp-politics-105200.html#.VAJplmPRP1U
The Death of the WASP

After centuries in power, is New England’s 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)
3. I think we should fight ideas, not people.
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:26 PM
Aug 2014

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)
4. To his credit, Dr. King probably didn't.
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:29 PM
Aug 2014

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.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
9. That's what I was thinking
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 12:37 AM
Aug 2014

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.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
8. Oh yeah babylonsister!
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 11:16 PM
Aug 2014

I'd love to see that as a meme, with photos of all different types of hands.

Rebuke the repukes!

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