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Caring About Human Issues

As you may have noticed, I do more tweeting then blogging now.  Much quicker on getting out my thoughts.  Yesterday I tweeted this link : The FBI’s Restrictive Definition Of Rape and stated that this needs to be changed.

I received a comment back asking “have you something to talk about you are pretty hardcore on abuse of woman?” I responded back “Nope, just a feminist and every single of one of my close friends have suffered abuse.”  The more I think about it, the more insulting and sexist their question was.

Why do I need to have “something” to talk about to address the issue about the abuse of women? If they actually read the article, it addresses the fact that rape of men are so, so poorly under reported and not even included.  These are issues that effect MEN and WOMEN, not just women.  It is a cycle that we must always work to break.

But then, their comment really had nothing to do with the article, since they didn’t read it, they really don’t see that comments/links I make are not just about women, they are about SOCIETY as a whole.  Why do so many think that women issues are not HUMAN issues, that it does not effect them?

Why can I not talk about it for the simple fact that I am a human and I care about the human condition and ridding the world of violence?  Why must I have story to give a damn?  I actually have had a very good life, especially compared to my friends.  But just because I had a good life doesn’t mean I shouldn’t care about others.  Doesn’t mean that I don’t want others to have what I had, every one deserves to have a good life.

My question to them should’ve been, why don’t you care about these issues? If more people cared and was aware the issues, the violence will go down as we develop programs to address it.

Education and awareness is always the key to changing things.  Which is why slaves where not allowed to learn how to read, it was illegal, why women weren’t allowed to be educated.  An educated person is someone to be reckoned with, you can not just use them, fool them and abuse them.

They also made this comment “They should report any abuse to the authorities or their brothers .I have 0.0 respect for men who abuse woman.”

Ok….good on the zero respect for the abusers and for people who have no actual experience dealing with DV situations….a common comment. Sexist on the brother comment, why must a female always need to get a family man’s protection?  Goes back to the history that women are nothing but property and chattel (which the GOP loves to treat us as).

But it really shows that they do not have any idea what an abuse victim goes through.  All the complex issues that they face, child care, job safety, having a job, lack of family support, the fact that they are re-victimized by the system and it fails them on a continuous basis.  Whether is from failure to enforcing a protective order, to not giving them, to abusers not giving a fig about a piece of paper, to blaming it on the victim.

After volunteering at a women’s shelter for many years, that simple statement that they made, doesn’t work.

More women, men and children are raped or killed by someone they know, not by the hyped up “strange danger”

How are these issues are just about women, when they effect all of us?  And why don’t you care about them?


Witch Hunt

Jonny Says FUCK YOU!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Hunt_(film)

This film will disgust you to no end from the complete lack of JUSTICE from the Kern County California DA Ed Jagels.

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

I remember this hysteria when I was 9/10 years old and I am just completely disgusted and shocked, and pissed of from what I just witnessed.

And as bad as this was, it got worst when Pauline sent me this link she found…

http://www.truthinjustice.org/ed-jagels.htm

And yet, the idiots in Kern Country still voted for him… I know where I will NOT ever be spending my time or $ when we go to the National Parks…

  • Mood: pissed off

Frustrations

I think I’ve been losing it.

I had to make a doctor appointment to get a referral on some my regular meds, well we don’t have a primary care physician, so I made it at the urgent care.  The reason why we don’t have a primary care doc is because I’ve been trying to get us insurance but the fracking blood sucking companies won’t cover me due to my meds….even though I’ve told them that they don’t have to cover them.  So we haven’t gotten a regular doc since I wanted to get insurance 1st since they are have to be in the network.

So I’m stuck paying high fracking clinic fees and then get forced to take a pregnancy test (pay for that), even we though take extreme protections and I just had my fracking monthly.  So there is nothing like watching news coverage of the morons at the town halls who are stupid enough to believe in the supposed “death panels” then have to deal with a test that means that I have to piss in a cup that I’m going to miss and get it on my fracking hands!  So that just really pissed me off.

I’ve been frustrated and annoyed ever since. I so hope that these morons don’t ruin the chance for health care reform.  I can’t even get fracking insurance unless I work for a mainstream company and lose my daily freedom.  I hate insurance companies, but you can’t go without the insurance due to the extreme costs.  I want a public option or that they allow us to get the same damn options that federal employees get and let me get it.

As you can see from my language, I’ve not been a happy camper.  I just want something to happen that will help me on getting us insurance and not screw us over…..which is happening all the time with damn insurance companies getting what they want and screw the rest of us.

I got my work done today, but was scattered on getting it done.  I can’t do that tomorrow.  Payroll is already here (where the hell did the time go?) so I need to get my work done and then attack my payroll prep.  So I’m trying to get things out of my system and focus.

Doesn’t help that I’ve been starving all day no matter what for some wacky reason.  My eating habits haven’t changed so WTF?

Sandi, she has been totally stressing out so we traded our frustrations.  Which was perfect for us.  It helps to clear our heads and relive some stress.

Hubby and I have been watching comedy ever since.  Watch Better Off Ted (I LOVE that show) and are watching the Muppet Show from netflix.  I hope I’m much better tomorrow.