This white man is plenty ready for women to take over

[MannyGoldstein]

Thanks to unhappycamper, I just watched Rep. Duckworth rip a new portal into one of the folks that make America the flaming suckfest that it's become. Such wonderful, controlled, righteous indignation. Ms. Duckworth wants to do the right thing, and she's calling it like it is.

In Texas, another difficult woman, Democratic Senator Wendy Davis, fought to stop lunatics from... being lunatics.

For several years, I've watched Elizabeth Warren do the same - dismantling Republicans, bankers, Obama's new US Trade Representative, and the other parasites that are sucking the last bits of juice from the 99%.

In my adopted state of Massachusetts, it was yet another difficult woman, Margaret Marshall, who led the court decision 10 years ago that first allowed gay Americans to marry. "That exclusion is incompatible with the constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under the law.", she wrote, and that was that.

It seems to me that, by and large, it's women who are wearing the pants in America today. Women who are big hearted enough to care about real people, not just those with power and money. Women who have strong principles and sharp minds. Women who have the will to do what is right, and that's that.

Y chromosomes don't seem to have the oomph that they used to.

Perhaps in some way this observation shows me to be sexist. If so, I apologize.

But the patriarchy just isn't working for most of us. I'm ready for a change.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. I'm cool with that!

As long as it isn't Michelle Bachman, I fully prepared for change!

Cheers!

[Amonester]

17. Me too!

As long as Sarah Palin (and every other ignoramuse like her) gets added on such list of no-noes!

[Kennah]

27. Fembots aren't women

[Nye Bevan]

2. The UK is way ahead of us, having elected Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

But we do have an excellent chance of President Hillary in 2016.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. I'm limiting my enthusiasm to forces for good. nm

[Nye Bevan]

6. I predict that Hillary will run and Warren will enthusiastically endorse her (nt)

[MannyGoldstein]

8. Hillary will run like she ran

from the sniper's bullets in Bosnia. Thank God she survived that.

[Scootaloo]

31. You owe me a new keyboard

I just sprayed mine with pepsi.

[idwiyo]

10. Why would you praise UK example of electing a batshit crazy Tory Conservative on DU?

If you managed to miss what happened when she died, try to Google it.

[MannyGoldstein]

13. He needed to show Hillary in a good light

And, admittedly, Hillary's probably better than Thatcher.

Although as I think about it, I'm not seeing much daylight between their basic principles...

[Nye Bevan]

20. The point is, perhaps the policies of whoever "takes over" are more important

than whether or not this person happens to have a penis.

[H2O Man]

18. Yikes!

She was as evil as Reagan.

[idwiyo]

3. K&R

[Marie Marie]

4. Well said Manny

Sexist? If so, I'll take this kind of sexism - at least you are not crawling up and trying to legislate my lady parts. And you are right, these women you mentioned have kicked some serious ass and kudos to them. So to them - and to you for what you wrote, I say:

[calimary]

37. Amen! Or should that be Ah-WOMEN?

These women are all heroes of mine. Wish we had many more like them in positions of power, authority, and influence.

[ohheckyeah]

7. OMG - she tore him a new one. n/t

[BlueJazz]

9. At least they might leave the Women's Rights thing alone and do something constuctive.

[love_katz]

11. Ummm...one small point, here.

The patriarchy really hasn't worked all that well for anybody, ever, except for the uber wealthy power-over elite.

I have no enthusiasm for the women who support the patriarchy.

However, your post (thankfully) is not about them.

Bravo to you, sir.

[Bannakaffalatta]

12. Oh sure,

like the man who has been cooking barbeque and spaghetti for his troglodyte friends for two weeks, and never washed a dish, sheet or floor, wielded a vacuum-cleaner or put out the trash, is ready to hand control over to the wife returning from vacation.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. Are you with the NSA?

You seem to know my personal situation a bit too well.

[We People]

38. LOL to both of you

[hfojvt]

21. that's ridiculouis

as a man, I vacuum my carpet twice a year, whether it needs it or not.

As single guy, I cannot get my wife, nor my imaginary girlfriend, Kylie Minogue, to do any of those chores. Although she will sometimes sing to me.

[calimary]

39. Welcome to DU, Bannakaffalatta!

Glad you're here! Your metaphor applies so well! I think the menfolk have had enough time to prove how much they can screw things up. They should move over and let us women take over for awhile - and fix a few things. And then maybe women should STAY in power for a longer while.

[mindwalker_i]

14. "Y" is 3/4ths of "X"

It's crippled - a partial amputee. And I'm a white dude too.

In all seriousness, if any group is given too much power it will become corrupted. But what we have is definitely corrupted and adding women seems like it would help.

[LittleBlue]

16. I'm ready for a woman if she's the right one

If it's another corporatist, I don't give a fuck if it's a man, woman, dog or Martian. Every one percenter has the same ambitions and the same paymasters, so it won't matter.

[FrodosPet]

25. Michael Moore =/= Mitt Romney

Both are one percenters.

It's not the net worth. It's the attitude.

[hfojvt]

19. so you will be voting Palin/Bachman in 2016?

or Brewer/Haley?

or the long shot ticket - Jenkins/Noem?

or maybe Bay will follow her brother's example - Buchanan/Coulter

[Nye Bevan]

22. Well naturally. They are women. What's not to love? (nt)

[MannyGoldstein]

23. Or Hillary/Pritzker?

No.

[Aristus]

24. I can't wait for women to take over.

I'll probably end up as someone's sex-slave...

[Kennah]

29. Work, work, work. That's what I'm about.

[Aristus]

30. No.

A woman's sex-slave...

[Kennah]

34. My bad for not being clear. I was signing up for servitude as well. Think we can get a union?

[Aristus]

40. I guess so.

I don't plan on going on strike, though. Even though I expect to be thoroughly overworked...

[Kennah]

45. I ain't settling for anything less than minimum wage

[Aristus]

46. I don't know...

The work would seem to be its own reward, wouldn't you think?...

[Kennah]

47. Well, if I were to be a Stay At Home Male Sex Slave, yes I'd be very willing to compromise.

[nolabear]

26. Oh no you don't. Y'all gotta get yourselves out of this.

[alittlelark]

28. Until patriarchal religions invaded the female was the final say in an issue

The gods were feminine. **in most cultures** The female is the one that 'creates life'. The female is the one bearing children (don"t want them to go to war), the females children are HERS (paternity is ????). The female does not have testosterone clouding judgement (look it up). Females look for ways to work TOGETHER.


The last 3500 years have SUCKED for women....stronger bodied men have been able to run roughshod over us with the help of 'religion'
. Their bodies may be stronger, but our minds are at minimum equal, and when it comes to divisive issues - vastly superior. We see mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandparents, society.....As intertwined. We are able to view the world w/o a dominance mentality driven by testosterone.


That said.... not including ALL women or ALL men .... just the way things normally flow.


PS- Just finished finals and am enjoying a Pinot

PPSS - never took a class in Feminist Studies, but have a degree in Anthropology.

[josejimenez]

32. The pool of candidates needs to be widened then narrowed

Preference should be given to wise latinas.

[Deuce]

33. Some.....

[arely staircase]

35. Texas women fucking rock!

and MG, as a Texan I can't even fucking come up with the words for how much I love Sen. Davis and what she has done. With gerrymandered districts I don't know how much ground we can make up as far as seats in the leg. go. But I know those dems. in the leg. are willing to fight now because of her. She has breathed life into the Democratic Party in Texas!

Viva La Senadora

Viva Texas!

[cliffordu]

36. Well, fuck me.

We agree again, Manny. Weird but true.

What you said:

Right on!

[treestar]

41. These women would have access only to the same powers

And the limits thereof.

It is cool to see women in office, on the other hand, there is Virginia Foxx and Michelle Bachmann. This sort of putting women on a pedestal thing veers dangerously close to sexism. That benevolent sexism thing DU got riled up on a while back.

[WillyT]

42. Hear, Hear !!! - K & R !!!

[kentauros]

43. Liberal Women, yes.

But not any like this bunch:



Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, center, sponsor of Senate Bill 5, is flanked by fellow Republicans during the second reading of the abortion bill on the House floor of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 23, 2013. If passed, the bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, require that they take place in surgical centers, and restrict where and when women can take abortion-inducing pills, would force 37 out of 42 abortion clinics in Texas to close and undergo millions of dollars in upgrades. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Rodolfo Gonzalez)

[bvar22]

44. I Recced your OP, but with THIS Caveat:

Dianne Feinstein
Sarah Palen,
Michele Bachmann,
Kay Bailey Hutchinson,
Margaret Thatcher,
Ann Coulter,
Laura Ingraham,
Kathleen Harris

..... are ALL Women too.

Be careful what you ask for.