RANT!
Bush
Closes White House Women's Issues Office
WARNING! Strong Language Ahead!
By Beth, BBBR Fed-Up Resistance Fighter
You
can't say you're
compassionate
and reasonable
while
behaving like a selfish idiot.
I hereby
serve notice to George W. Bush: no more.
As the
classic t-shirts says, "Fuck you, you fucking fuck."
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/087/nation/Shut_office_signals_shift_on_women+.shtml
ARGH!!!
Warning: what is to
follow is to be an semi-coherent and swear-ridden rant.
You know what it is? I know what it is. I have figured it out. Wanna
hear?
This is it: you can't just SAY
you care.
You can't say you're for women's
rights but close the women's issues office in the White House. You can't say you're for women's rights and
appoint people who think the solution for women's poverty is marriage. (Hello, many of these women left marriages
that involved physical or emotional abuse of them and their children... And
even if they got divorced "just" for irreconcilable differences, it
doesn't mean they don't deserve to have enough money to live on.) If you refuse to take into account the
gendered effects of policies, if you oppose all the feminist organizations on
everything, if you don't see the big deal about sexual harassment or sexual
assault, then you're sexist. Period.
You can't say you're not a
racist while ramming policies into law that have a disproportionately egregious
effect on racial minorities. You can't
deliberately remove too many people from voter rolls because they share a race
and similar name with a convict, and then say you weren't out to get black
voters.
You can't say you're for the
middle class and working class while pushing a tax cut that provides almost no
relief for them. You can't say you're
for the environment and then turn back regulations every chance you get while
insisting that you must drill for oil in our great natural refuges.
You can't say you're
compassionate and reasonable while behaving like a selfish idiot.
I hereby serve notice to George
W. Bush: no more. As the classic
t-shirts says, "Fuck you, you fucking fuck."
George W. Bush got close enough
to steal the election because the media gave him a walk by allowing him to
define himself in terms of adjectives and meaningless supportive-sounding
phrases, rather than paying attention to his actions and demanding he discuss
his policies. Every time I hear him say
he understands something, I feel my bullshit sensor go off. No, Boy George, you don't fucking get it. You are attacking me, my family, my friends,
my rights, my economic stability, and my future because YOU are a bastard of
the highest degree.
Yesterday, surfing around the
web, I saw pictures of the January 20th Inauguration protests that I hadn't
seen before, ones not from D.C. There
were many of the usual clever signs, puppets, and costumes, some clashes with
police, some angry shouters. But the
photograph that choked me up was just a face.
It was the face of a black man, partially obscured by his hand as he
wiped away a tear that was trickling down his cheek.
I teared up. I went, shit. It reminded me that, underneath all the anger and righteous
indignation and jeering, is heartbreak, and a bone-deep sense of betrayal over
this heinous crime against us all.
I started to think about what
sign I want to bring to D.C., and all I could think of was one that was mostly
visual, a crying face, but said, "Why do you hate me so much?" Pathetic, I
know.
Perhaps it is a good thing that
I also saw a photo of a black dog with a sign on it that said, "George W.
Bush can kiss my black ass."
I'm considering trying to be
clever, or historical, or topical, or quoting, in my sign, but if the mood
strikes me I may be the woman with the sign that says in huge letters,
"GEORGE W. BUSH: FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK."
Beth