Briefly Furious.
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timepiececlockSometimes I get upset when I realize that there's people out there that I just can not agree with, whose basic world view is so profoundly different from my own that we simply will not mesh and I frequently want nothing more than to blast them off to Saturn, far away from me, my country, and all my descendants & their friends.
No, I'm not talking about other religions like Islam verus Christianity. No, what's currently got me in a huff is Christianity versus the US government.
I was reading an interesting article in today's Mercury newspaper about women in power, and how influencial women like Hilary Clinton and Martha Stewart have to be seen as "victims" for us to like them, and before that they're villified. It thought it was a good article. It didn't bring up Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewelet Packard, who I see as a "villain." I never had a villianous view of Hilary, but Fiorina got my dad and the parents of my classmates and half the people in the South Bay laid off, so she qualifies as villian status. It'd be the same if she was a man.
Anyway, the article talked about the increasing number of women in politics, and accpetance of their positions of power. They described off-hand an organization called Concerned Women For America, whom they quoted for "vowing" to bring "biblical principles into all levels of public policy."
I jumped out of my chair, leaned close over the table and read it again to make sure I hadn't misread. I would have thrown a rant right there if there'd been anyone around to hear it.
I hate the idea that there's organizations of 500,000 people whose statement of purpose is in direct opposition to everything eblazoned on the American Constitution and the life words and work of the people who founded a nation that I've been in love with practically since the I was old enough to say "It's a free country" and know what that meant. Which would have been approximately two years old.
I want to send them to Saturn. I want a big Send The Traitorous Freaks To Saturn Button, that I can press and feel at ease knowing that public institutions are gloriously free of God's interference.
Every once in a while I see something like this that sets me off. My parents mostly let me talk on and on when it happens and nod appropriately. I want them here so they can nod and agree with the Saturn Plan.
No, I'm not talking about other religions like Islam verus Christianity. No, what's currently got me in a huff is Christianity versus the US government.
I was reading an interesting article in today's Mercury newspaper about women in power, and how influencial women like Hilary Clinton and Martha Stewart have to be seen as "victims" for us to like them, and before that they're villified. It thought it was a good article. It didn't bring up Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewelet Packard, who I see as a "villain." I never had a villianous view of Hilary, but Fiorina got my dad and the parents of my classmates and half the people in the South Bay laid off, so she qualifies as villian status. It'd be the same if she was a man.
Anyway, the article talked about the increasing number of women in politics, and accpetance of their positions of power. They described off-hand an organization called Concerned Women For America, whom they quoted for "vowing" to bring "biblical principles into all levels of public policy."
I jumped out of my chair, leaned close over the table and read it again to make sure I hadn't misread. I would have thrown a rant right there if there'd been anyone around to hear it.
I hate the idea that there's organizations of 500,000 people whose statement of purpose is in direct opposition to everything eblazoned on the American Constitution and the life words and work of the people who founded a nation that I've been in love with practically since the I was old enough to say "It's a free country" and know what that meant. Which would have been approximately two years old.
I want to send them to Saturn. I want a big Send The Traitorous Freaks To Saturn Button, that I can press and feel at ease knowing that public institutions are gloriously free of God's interference.
Every once in a while I see something like this that sets me off. My parents mostly let me talk on and on when it happens and nod appropriately. I want them here so they can nod and agree with the Saturn Plan.
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Date: 2003-07-06 03:33 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-07-06 04:34 pm (UTC)I feel like a feminist every time I go to church in Utah, because all of the married mothers are all submissive wives who think the priesthood is the best thing since sliced bread even though they were the ones who popped out the herd of children. But in california a lot of the moms held their own, had jobs, and didn't wait at home all day to welcome their husbands at the door and rub their feet.
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Date: 2003-07-06 04:50 pm (UTC)That's what my friend said when he visited Utah in his senior year. He said the temples were wonderful and the land was pretty but he didn't want to live there cause the people scared him.
My Quaker cousin, (also 19) who lives in Salt Lake City was visiting me here in San Jose the year before last and she even commented on the cultural difference.
I feel like a feminist every time I go to church in Utah, because all of the married mothers are all submissive wives who think the priesthood is the best thing since sliced bread even though they were the ones who popped out the herd of children. But in california a lot of the moms held their own, had jobs, and didn't wait at home all day to welcome their husbands at the door and rub their feet.
That gives me sad and ultra-feministy thoughts too.
The thing I wonder about is how long it can continue. Because the way the American economy is changing, and right now most people have to have two working parents to support a family of four. Soon (if not already) it will be a necessity almost everywhere that isn't the uppermost 1 % rich. And once they do work, change is inevitable.