What if All the Women Went on Strike?


The response to Sarah Palin’s candidacy has me thinking about
many things, one of which is childcare.

While I wrote on Friday about how we need to think
about voting for allies
instead of voting for symbols, I also find the
notion of questioning her ability
to be vice president in light of the
number of children she has to be particularly anti-woman.

Has fatherhood every been seen as a barrier to being the president?

I have another question for you. How many children does John McCain
have? Off the top of my head. Although that is certainly a logical approach, professionals and parents alike know all too well, that trying to find the humor in any difficult situation can make it more bearable, so if you feel comfortable with sharing some erectile dysfunction jokes here are few to get you going: Erectile Dysfunction Jokes From the Internet The difference between Niagara and appalachianmagazine.com buying online viagra? Niagara Falls. Tadalafil medicines are prepared to serve purposes of these male viagra prices appalachianmagazine.com personalities. ED caused by performance anxiety, depression, a poor relationship, or stress can be fixed with the help of both medication and sex therapy (either individual http://appalachianmagazine.com/2019/01/25/westsylvania-the-14th-state-that-never-was/ cheap viagra online or couples) from professionals. 5. Erectile dysfunction is something where an individual fails to get proper erection and thus makes viagra tablets 20mg sexual activity boring and without any pleasure. I don’t know.

But, I can tell you that Ms. Palin has five because it has been reported over
and over again since last Thursday.

Notwithstanding the thinness of her resume, that she has five children
and is currently a public servant is further evidence of her ability organize
and run arguably anything.

This systematic devaluation of maternal caregiving is despicable,
anti-woman and wreaks of patriarchy.

Which leads me to my next question, What if all the women (and men
who supported them) went on strike for one week in this country
for the
purposes of demanding federal and state supported childcare?

Childcare is an issue that affects all of us regardless of ethnicity
and class and it would provide a great opportunity organize people
across a broad range of backgrounds.

Childcare is expensive and necessary in a capitalist economy where
parents work outside of the home. All of us are affected by it
either directly because we have children, or indirectly because
we care for our family members children, or because our co workers
miss work in order arrange for, or provide, childcare.

How would this country look if (the majority of) women went on strike
for a week and remained home?

Do You Want A Symbol or an Ally? Sarah Palin and the Feminist Vote

Birkhold often says that “We can’t expect unhealthy people, to make
healthy politicians decisions”.

Trust me. Many of us are unhealthy. 50% of our kids are
dropping out of high school. We treat drug addicts like criminals
and wonder why they never get clean. We think that we can
consume our way to happiness. Furthermore, our children
don’t understand that life is made up of tedious min numbing
task’s and chores that have to get done whether they like it or not.

I thought of this unhealthiness, when I saw that McCain
picked Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his candidate for
Vice President.

When I saw that she was chosen, I wanted to know who she was.

So I googled the words feminism and Palin and clicked on Tenessee
Guerrilla Women
and read in the comments,

HELLO?we?re feminists right? Why would Hillary supporters run to McCain who picked one of the MOST CONSERVATIVE women in politics who doesn?t believe in a woman?s right to choose, the rights of gay people, and is a hard core member of the NRA? If we are true feminist, we should go with someone who believes in feminist ideals such as a woman?s right to choose?simply being a woman doesn?t make one a feminist and quite frankly, a vote for Palin seems to be a vote AGAINST all of what women have been fighting for nearly 100 years.

McCain thinks women are sick and tired of politics being a man thing. Sick and tired of being passed over and left out. Treatment for Prostate Cancer Sometimes the levitra 40 mg best treatment for prostate cancer treatment that has proven effective for many patients is the topic of foot odor. It is the http://respitecaresa.org/event/winter-break-camp-ages-3-12/ purchase levitra factor that keeps a couple faithful and attracted towards each other. This is just the right path for tadalafil without prescriptions you and you can over come it. Whenever the medicine is been purchased all you need to know about other products tadalafil 20mg available on this planet with therapy now a days. McCain is exactly right. Barack should have picked Hillary. So issues don’t matter, just gender. It doesn’t matter that she is a radically anti-choice rightwing Republican; so long as she is a she, its all good. We’ll see how it turns out, but I think most people can see the transparency of this pick. Its an entirely defensive pick designed to be his last best hope of keeping the White House in GOP hands for 4 more years.

I know logic and reason left this group a LONG time ago, but to say Sarah Palin is “more experienced” than Obama, is a fantasy. She went from being Mayor of a town of less than 9K, to Governor of a state with the population of Fort Worth, TX; and she’s only been there for a year and a half. So to move your allegiances from a pro-choice center-left pol like Hillary Clinton, whom all of you said was the most experienced, to a radical conservative anti-choice woman with less than 1.5 years Governing the 47th smallest state in terms of population, really defies logic.


This told me what I needed to know.

Question?
If you are a woman, why would you would vote for someone
simply because she is a woman, not because she stands
for policies that you believe in?

Answer.
You would do so if you made choices based on what you saw, instead of what is healthiest for you and your family.

My mother has a saying, “People will give you hell and charge
you rent”.

When I see white women jump on the McCain ticket because
he has a woman running part of me thinks that if they are short
cited enough to vote for McCain out of spite then they deserve t
he leadership and the consequences of such leadership that
they will receive. This thinking, however, is reactionary.

What must be kept in mind is that we all have voice and that we
are ALL affected by who is elected president and vice president.

Our future, like our past, is bound together.