Feminist Icon Chooses Obama: "I Won’t Vote With My Vagina"

[Catherina]

Video: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=64574

"First of all, I'm not gonna vote with my vagina. That's first of all," Marianne Williamson tells Retirement Living TV about why she is supporting Sen. Barack Obama.

I didn't start out with him. I thought people were projecting wildly onto him, making positive assumptions that he hadn't earned and filling in empty spaces in his resume with mere hopes of substance. But the longer campaign season has worked for me; having watched the candidates move through time, I've seen who's grown and who hasn't. I've ended up -- at least for now -- with Obama.

I'm perplexed by the question often presented by his opponents, "Yeah, but how is he really going to change things?" To me, he already has. He has awakened the sleeping giant of American democracy, and that is the greatest antidote to every problem we face.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/my-journey-to-obama_b_81372.html

"What! You're not voting for Hillary? But I thought you were such a feminist!"

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times. So let me explain why I'm not voting with my vagina...

As a feminist, I believe nurturing and nourishing a world trying to be born is the most efficient way to counter the malevolent effects of a world that needs to pass away.

That is why I support Obama.

As a feminist, I believe inclusion is more powerful and life producing than is exclusion.

That is why I support Obama.

As a feminist, I believe tending and mending is a more effective way to deal with the world's stress points than is fighting or fleeing.

That is why I support Obama.

As a feminist, I believe having a vision for what I want the world to become is as important as solving problems that have arisen in the world that is.

That is why I support Obama.

As a feminist, I'm more concerned with creating a world my great-great-grandchildren can live in than in trying to make things better for me right now.

That is why I support Obama.

As a feminist, I am convinced that building authentic relationships is a more lasting, creative way to build peace than just strategizing to destroy enemies and manipulate alliances.

That is why I support Obama.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/feminism-in-the-age-of-no_b_85427.html

If your'e a feminist for Obama, please sign the link in my signature line.

[Withywindle]

1. I'm sure her vagina would be more reliable than a Diebold machine.

But I prefer punchcards.

[mcctatas]

19. ...

:spray:
OMG...Diet Dr. Pepper all over the place...jerk! :rofl:

[roguevalley]

52. This thread better keep up with this starting brilliance. DUzy stuff here.

[NDambi]

2. I'm with her...I won't vote with mine either..now where is it, again? lol

Go bama :bounce: :party:

[LisaM]

3. She can vote how she wants, but since when is she a feminist icon?

Or is that just Arianna talking?

[kikiek]

7. No doubt. Anyone who says something like that isn't a feminist icon in my book.

She is exactly the opposite. Implying that women are so influenced by their vagina they can't think straight. Does she also say then that if you're voting for Obama and you're a male you're listening to your d***?

[spooky3]

12. exactly

[Upton]

13. Some women support Hillary simply on the basis of gender

is that feminist, or just plain shallow?

[kikiek]

14. And some black voters support Obama because he is black. Is that racism or shallow?

[Upton]

17. I'm not condoning that either

both are rather shallow. Wouldn't you agree?

[kikiek]

18. I will only agree that people choose their candidates for a multitude of reasons. It doesn't mean

that it is ok to imply that women who are voting for Clinton are thinking with their vagina. And it is offensive and sexist and reeks of misogyny. I don't care if she is a woman or not.

[dansolo]

26. She is not implying anything--she is speaking for herself

As she stated this is in response to the statement, "What! You're not voting for Hillary? But I thought you were such a feminist!"

[kikiek]

32. The implication is clear.

[NashVegas]

39. She Is Crystal Clear - It Is a Sexist Attack on Female Hillary Supporters

with the intent to peel their vote away. Or else she wouldn't have published it.

'Only unthinking women would vote for Hillary because they want to see a female president and think Clinton would be great for the office.' You don't want to be unthinking, do you?

[roguevalley]

53. oh please. she's making a point that her vote is reasoned and her

reasoning leads her to Obama. Some people imply a vote for anyone but a woman, if you are a woman, is treason. Read deeper.

[femrap]

21. Who is she?

I guess I don't have her in my 'icon' book.

[kikiek]

23. Me either. You'd think someone would have heard of her.

[femrap]

25. I guess she is trying to make a name

for herself by saying words that would get her attention.

[roguevalley]

55. so I guess she's dead to you too. Too bad. Google is your friend.

[Hieronymus]

37. Marianne is very well known, and I applaud her decision and comments.

[Scout]

63. very well known where? this feminist has never heard of her.... n/t

[spooky3]

9. funny, "feminist" never appears on her Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson

and none of her "causes" seem to describe anything that sounds like feminist activity, though there is a lot of religious activity described.

I find her HuffPo language crude and offensive, and a comparable comment about blacks who support Obama would NEVER be tolerated there or most other places.

[kikiek]

20. And you just hit the nail on the head.

[mikelgb]

4. Well if she's not going to use it to vote can I?

[BuyingThyme]

5. I won't vote even vote with my thighs.

[tandem5]

6. People do that? See that's why I'm an absentee voter...

so much more sanitary than voting in a public booth!

[Upton]

8. That's my kind of woman

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. maybe with a lever machine?

New York still has them.

:rofl:

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. Feminist, okay, but icon?

I've never heard of Marianne Williamson described as a feminist "icon". I thought her primary claim to fame was her new agey books on spirituality.

[LisaM]

15. I've never even heard of her, which makes it even more annoying

I don't assume known feminists are going to vote in lockstep for Hillary, but it's wrong to make the implication that someone who's an icon of the movement has shifted to Obama.

[UALRBSofL]

16. OMG She's a legend in her own mind ! !

:puke:

[QC]

48. Reminds me of what Gore Vidal said about Midge Decter--a classic.

Mrs. Norman Podhoretz, also known as Midge Decter, writes with the authority and easy confidence of someone who knows that she is very well known indeed to those few who know her.

[roguevalley]

56. show me where she calls herself an icon. So, is she responsible

for some editor's remarks? This is getting dumber than original sin.

[NashVegas]

22. And I Won't Vote

As long as shit like this keeps coming up.

I've seen a lot of offensive shit on DU, but this, hands down, it the single most offensive thing I've ever seen.

[Umbram]

47. Perspective

The U.S. population has over 300 million people. The world has over 6.5 billion people.

How many people does DU have? Out of that population, how many post things here you disagree with?

Are you going to let the 20, 50, 100 people here get to you so much that you aren't going to do what is best for the 300 million people in this country or the 6.5 billion people on this planet?

It's your right to vote or not vote. All I'm saying is, at the end of the day DU is just a website. There are bigger things going on.

*shrugs*

[NashVegas]

49. Perception

That piece was published in Huffington Post. That and other allegedly liberal outposts have continued to indulge the Obama campaign & the press in their exploitation of black voters and white guilt with one hand and their sex-based attacks on his opponent on the other.

[kikiek]

24. She said this in an interview with Retirement Living TV. Ever hear of considering your audience?

[LittleClarkie]

27. First of all, pulling the lever would be a bitch.

Plus I'm not sure I could hold the marker.

Not to mention reaching the machine to feed my ballot in.

And then who'd want to recount the thing.

"Don't touch that one. I saw her vote with her vagina."

...

:yoiks:

[rodeodance]

28. You are making stuff up---SHE IS NO FEMINISH ICON! WHAT SILLYNESS

[libbygurl]

29. LOL. And I hope men don't vote with their male members, either! Isn't that what hands are for?

nt

[libbygurl]

30. Williamson is a New Age icon, not a feminist icon.

nt

[kikiek]

34. Well if that's what new age is all about count me out. I absolutely refuse to participate.

[2rth2pwr]

31. What is the deal with some people always talking about

their vaginas?

It reminds me of entertainers always grabbing their crotch.

What's the point?

[alarimer]

33. If she's using her vagina, she's been doing it wrong.

Personally, I use my finger.

[UALRBSofL]

36. OMG LOL ! ! ! !

:rofl:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

51. Levers or Punch Cards?!

:rofl:

[tippytoe]

35. Good

Any endorsement is important at this point.

[loveangelc]

38. THANK YOU.

[mckeown1128]

40. I may not be famale but I am a still a feminist...

and I am for Obama!!!

[Major Hogwash]

41. My sister is a feminist.

And Hillary was never a choice for her.
Maybe if Hillary had been a feminist, my sister would have supported her.
But, my sister thought that Edwards had the best chance because he had been through this before.
After Edwards dropped out of the race, she was concerned that Hillary wouldn't do very well.
But, within just 6 weeks, she is glad to support Obama.

[WillyT]

42. Wow... Now We Know What Happened In Florida...

Talk about you butter-fly ballot!!!

:hide:

[Liquorice]

43. What a strange thing for anyone to say! Marianne sounds like a kook. nt

[Bluebear]

44. Isn't she a spiritual leader? What's with the "feminist icon"?

[Doctor_J]

45. Awakened American Democracy

5-10 million more people will vote this year than in 2004, if Obama is our nominee. That alone is the beginning of the rescue of our country.

[TahitiNut]

46. I have a lot of respect for Marianne Williamson and have for over 15 years.

:thumbsup:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others." — Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love (HarperCollins, 1993)

[LostinVA]

50. She isn't a feminist icon

A New Age one? Sure. But, she isn't Greer, Steinem, et al, by any means.

Having said that, her vote is her business and her choice. No slams from me.

[SammyWinstonJack]

54. ...

:eyes:

[ronnykmarshall]

57. Well good for her.

Didn't vote with my dick, so I guess we're even.

[Lucky 13]

58. I tried to vote with my vagina...

...but the election workers got all huffy about it.

[VotesForWomen]

59. too bad she's not voting with her brain either; nothing she said makes any sense. nt

[kwassa]

60. I've actually met Marianne Williamson. Can I vote with her vagina?

Or is it one vagina, one vote? Does it have to be a declared Democratic vagina, or can it be an independent vagina?

and can I ask if these vagina primaries are open or closed?

These democratic processes are so hard to understand sometimes.

[MurrayDelph]

61. All I can say is

what a bunch of Twattle

[Political Heretic]

62. I am profeminist!