I like to think of those bloated windbags like Limbaugh as our resident machocists, the only claim to fame the posess is in their ability to be so offensive that people will naturally attack them and they can make the papers and call attention to themselves by being such ignorant swine that intelligent people will feel compelled to respond. This showers them with the attention they can’t get by being decent human beings.   

The turning point in my life occured in 1966 when I was driving down Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco and heard Betty Freidan speaking on the radio.  I went to the meeting that night and her speech opened a whole new world for me.  It grieves me to see that most of what was so hard won in those days has been slowly swept under the rug by the media and women today have not a clue about the battle that took place to get them where they are today.

     Television has created a schizophrenic split between fat and skinny women’s bodies, on the one hand they show huge quantities of lavish food so enticing God herself could not create it.  Then they launch into a constant commercial of diet products and render women sub-human if they don’t look like refugees from a concentration camp.  If that weren’t enough, we now have high heel shoes that make foot binding look like a desirable alternative.  Before women’s lib, women wore 3 inch heels that were the agony of the damned, I can only imagine what these new monstrocities are like.  The worst of it is women trot along after these gurus of what women ought to be like a flock of docile sheep.  The end result is a generation of young women who are too weak to function as normal human beings and could not run if their life depended on it.  

     We have come a long way in many areas, in the beginning each Med School had two women, same with Law school.  I am happy that we now have almost equal proportions, but we can’t move forward in other areas like equal pay until the new crop of women wake up and realize things were not always the way they enjoy them now.  The real change will happen when the second job women do is recognized as having some value.  Raising children, creating a home, maintaining a world outside just traditional male jobs.  These now are just freebees that women do for nothing and because women have always done them they are not valued.

     I remember when men started whining about the fact they had to go to work every day and women sat at home watching tv and eating bon bon’s.  Now women go to work every day and all the things women did like cooking balanced meals, looking after their families health both phycically and spiritually. caring for the elderly parents, in general creating and maintaining a civil society have fallen by the wayside.  Now we are wondering why everyone is too fat, children particularly, old folks are dumped in convalescent homes, and our civilization is for all practical purposes in the tank.  The women who stayed home and created this civilized life were considered to be unemployed, the only pay they got was when they could outlive their husbands and collect what "he" owned.  If he chose to dump her for a younger model at any point before he died, she couldn’t even collect his social security.

     Television is the main reason women have lost most of the gains they made in the 60’s and 70’s.  The main form of entertainment is seeing young girls murdered while men try to solve the crime aided by sexy women in low cut blouses.  The Bachelor thing is little more than a slave auction in which young women will do almost anything to be bought.

     One of the problems women face is that they don’t have time to watch tv, so it is difficult to see what is being done to our society in the name of entertainment.  The women of my generation paid dearly for the gains we made, but it was worth it to achieve even a small amount of freedom, I shudder to think what my life would have been like if we had failed begin the fight.

Now don’t lie to yourself, but would you all be squawking about a Kennedy wanting a Senate seat if it were Carolyn’s brother John John Kennedy who wanted the Senate seat. I don’t think so. I think if you took a look around at the sorry crop of Senators you would realize Carolyn could not possibly be any worse than what we’ve got.

The reason men are afraid of over 50 women is because what men are buying is no longer for sale. Women over 50 can now support themselves nicely. Once men could just buy themselves a slave you certainly would not buy one who was too old to do all the household management, nor would he want a free nurse that was too old to take care of him, and while he sat around fantasizing about women, it would certainly be a young one. If you had enough money you could get a young one who was still willing to stroke you ego. This whole crop of old men who grew up believing they were entitled to maid service while their only contribution was money are a dying breed and they haven’t been able to give up the dream. This accounts for the huge number of men who think if the try hard enough they will get a young one, but in the meantime they go home with the chronicle.

I am always amazed at the squawking and bitching that goes on when a woman has sex with a younger man, but old men have been doing the exact same thing for all eternity. When I was in highschool a whole flock of old billy goats cruised the girls leaving after school trying to pick up a young one. No one ever even noticed that and yet it happened every day after school. Now that I am older and have a man friend who is 20 years my junior, just a friend nothing more, old men glare at me whenever we go somewhere together, as if I were stealing little boys and corrupting their morals. I can only assume that these old men failed to pick up a high school girl and now they are mad because they think I was able to pick up a boy.

I have been telling people that “Concentrating wealth in too few hands will give you a Great Depression every time” and I’ll tell you now that if you keep following a wrong system you will come out at the same place again and again as long as you keep repeating that wrong system. To rob the working people of their share of the wealth is about as smart as cutting off the circulation to your legs. You’ll get to keep what is rightfully theirs, but it will poison your whole body when your legs begin to rot and fall off.

I think marriage is just going through a reorganization. In the past it was solely for raising children. Women who had no means to financially take care of themselves other than working for a man who would then take care of her and her children. This became a form of slavery and most women aren’t having any part of it now that they can earn money on their own. I think in the future there will be many forms of marriage, none of which involve women as domestic slaves.

Craig Ferguson Is about the sexiest man I have ever seen in my entire life. I think he should run for president. Then if things were going to hell in a handbasket we could just look at him and feel better. You must admit that his understanding of our political system beats hell out of anything we’ve heard from the current candidates.

I can and I have and I will if I can again. The only people it seems to upset -wretched old men who scowl and frown while dangling a teenage girl from their arm.

I think Obama behaved like a natural male, he used Hillary to help him get where he wanted to go then he dumps her once he accomplished his goal. I can only say, that was a stupid thing to do. It will cost him the presidency. No man wants a woman who is smarter than him standing by his side, so he picks a mild mannered man who is no threat to him, but too bland to fire up the election. This may prove to be the undoing of what could have been a landslide for the Democrats.

Well happy day, we have somehow slipped back into the 50’s when a woman’s job was to keep her husband happy or she might find herself uh, unemployed. Every womans magazine poured out advise on how to keep him happy. I find it almost unbelievable that we have steadily lost all the progress we have made since the women’s movement. I thought this would be a place for intelligent women to discuss important issues, but it seems to be deteriorating into another place where women chit chat about appearances and drivel. The country has deteriorated into a smoldering cauldron of problems and women are being advised to behave like a trained poodle.

I think Hillary should be vice president, I thought she should have been president. If Obama is too sexist to make her vice president, I won’t vote for him either. I am amazed that women who owe their upscale jobs to the battles of us older generation now roll over and play dead when another woman wants to break through the glass ceiling. No one said a word about the media hacking Hillary to bits and running after Obama like a rock star. I guess women won’t be happy until they are back in the kitchen bare foot and pregnant.

It makes me barf reading all the thinly veiled contempt for Hillary. The reason she did not get the nomination is because we have a male dominated political system, the media did everything they could think of to destroy her, and worst is the fact that women who have achieved success in their field will do whatever they can to keep other women down. Hillary was 10 times more qualified than Obama, but she lacked the necessary anatomy that some women will vote for over intelligence and experience. I had so hoped this site would discuss a higher level of women’s issues.

You can’t kid us Bella Mia, you’re really George’s mother.

Most of the gains made by women in the 60’s & 70’s liberation movement are gone, killed by the media. Wearing shoes that are the moral equivalent of Chinese foot binding is just the latest assault on women. In the 20’s mothers who wanted to make their daughters more salable had the bones taken out of the little toes. This achieved long slender feet in fashion at the time. Unfortunately those empty toes migrated to the top of the foot and in time caused the once fashionable woman to be unable to walk.