This Is True
Amanda Marcotte is usually a little too intemperate for me, but this is right on the money:
So, we have a woman running for President who literally believes that her god made women to be the helpmeets of men, and that marriage should be built around women submitting to their husbands. And this belief, being weird—especially for someone who claims she wants to run the entire nation—was asked about during a debate.
And this is “sexist”?
No, it’s not. The belief she has is sexist. Asking a candidate about her sexist beliefs is well within bounds. If a politician were running and followed a religion that believed that people under 5’4″ were not fully human and should be routinely beat about the head by taller people, it wouldn’t be sizeist to make her explain that belief to people she expects to vote for her, either. She’s sizeist to believe that.
It’s pathetic that this is even being debated. Stop letting conservatives who pretend to have the sense of very small children run us around in circles like this. Please.
Well put.
Indeed. And for the record, I have killed a few mimes, tho none were with my thumbs. Ring finger only guys.
(Never mind, reconsidered. I don’t know how to delete the entire comment, so I’ll just delete the content.)
J.
Ozark Hillbilly,
“I have killed a few mimes, tho none were with my thumbs.”
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
I’m still waiting for someone to explain why Byron York’s question was “unfair”…
Cuz no one likes to be Yorked……Oh wait….my bad….I think it was Borked…..never mind….
Anyway….I’m also with Amanda on this…..cuz size should never matter…..friggin’ sizeists……
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
`Round here
Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It’s a wonderful world)
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
‘Round here
I’m sorry…but this is no more troubling than the entire Dias of candidates being unwilling to accept a 10:1 cuts to revenues deficit reduction or an entire party of Tea Stained Republicans being willing to crash the economy over their no revenue increases catechism.
Byron York, sycophant that he is, asked a good question.
Why isn’t the rest of the press hounding the rest of these idiots over their flawed ideology?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/whos-really-responsible-for-us-debt-downgrade.php
Simple.
It is widely considered bigotry to ask Christians to defend their beliefs.
It’s ridiculous, but, here we are.