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YOUTOO: How Women Can Stop Whining And Start Winning
Several events led me to write my birthday blog (that this less beloved than before my birthday I-Pad ate) two weeks ago on a topic not directly related to turning seventy-one. 1) My contemporary Elizabeth Warren “suspended” her campaign after not winning a state or even coming in second, and women started complaining about sexism while insisting that the winner between the two old white men left in the race as viable candidates (Gabbard was never viable, and Bernie was barely viable; he’s not now) must pick a woman to be his Vice President. 2) Jewish Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to twenty-three years in jail despite being found not guilty of the most serious charges, and women celebrated. 3) Jewish Woody Allen’s memoir (which has now been published) was dropped by the first publishing company to accept it because of complaints by two of Mia Farrow’s blonde children. 4) Often obnoxious, but sometimes great, interviewer Chris Matthews abruptly “retired” from his long-running MSNBC show and admitted that he was “out of step” with the times because he had commented on women’s looks, and “The View” anchor Joy Behar, who had commented on men’s looks, thought he deserved to lose his job. 5) I read three articles in VANITY FAIR that seemed connected, but the female editor didn’t comment on or even acknowledge the connections. The first was a profile of the woman on the cover, a “hot” Cuban actress, whose career is on fire and who was described in the article as “a pre-implosion Weinstein Company starlet,” who earlier “was in a serious relationship with Agent Franklin Latt.” The second was an article described as “An Oral History of a Predator,” in which thirty of Weinstein’s alleged victims are quoted, and one of them, actress Rosanna Arquette, compares him to Charles Manson and Hitler because he tried to take out his penis in front of her, and another says he and Jewish Jeff Epstein should be compared to Jack the Ripper, a serial killer of mostly prostitutes (Hmmm, I wonder if she realizes that and understands the significance). The final article profiled a woman who was actually oppressed. Princess Haya, who lived in Dubai until she escaped to London, and one of her stepdaughters were apparently being terrorized and held captive by the Princess’s husband. Since my birthday two weeks ago, nothing has happened, not even being told to stay home because of a contagious, sometimes deadly virus, to stop me from once again (see 10/14/17 and 2/4/18 posts, for instance) calling out (mostly) white women for being whiners, refusing to take responsibility for their actions. In fact, Bernie cultists have now tried to resurrect the METOO attack on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. And the Cuban actress, Ana de Armas, who looks white, has appeared in two other magazines with her new boyfriend, recent co-star (cough! cough!), two-time Oscar winner, former PEOPLE MAGAZINE Sexiest Man, and serial dater of famous actresses (he married and had three children with Jennifer Garner after being engaged to Jennifer Lopez and dating Gwyneth Paltrow) Ben Affleck.
Let me start the “call out” with some facts: 1) 56% of the 2016 electorate was female; white females made up 41% of the 2016 electorate. While 98% of black women voting in 2016 chose Hillary Clinton, only 45% of white women did. 47% of them chose the insane white supremacist who was heard on tape bragging about grabbing pussies a few days before the election. 2) In 91% white Iowa and 93.9% white New Hampshire, the progressive baby boomer white female came in third and fourth while the moderate X-generation white female came in fifth and third in the 2020 primary/caucus. The overwhelmingly white populations of the two states which should never again start the Democratic primary calendar placed the oldest and youngest men in the race first and second. 3) So far the METOO movement has resulted in two Jewish men (Epstein and Weinstein) and two black men (Cosby and Kelly) being jailed and demonized in the media. Not one straight, Protestant white man has been jailed or even indicted (gay two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and black Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Junior have both been indicted, but the charges against Kevin were eventually dropped). Another Jewish man, 2020 frontrunner Al Franken, was run out of the Senate (karma is a bitch, which is why the six Senators who signed the petition to force Franken’s resignation and ran for President all lost, or in Bernie’s case, will lose) using fake charges that dirty political trickster Roger Stone helped orchestrate, and another black man, civil rights icon, former employer of Rosa Parks, and at the time, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers was forced to resign using fake charges instigated by Gloria Allred’s daughter Lisa Bloom because he was too old and senile to handle the job of Judiciary Chair when the Democrats won in 2018. Meanwhile the insane white supremacist, a self-confessed sexual assaulter of women, is still President, and there is a room in the Capitol building named after segregationist and father of a half-black daughter with his mother’s servant Strom Thurmond. 4) Not one of the many books written about the chaos in the White House has suggested that worst President ever Donald Trump is raping women or grabbing their pussies while pretending to be the best President ever, but brown children are in cages, people of color are being murdered, and hatred toward people of color is being promoted.
While I initially distinguished between the grassroots women’s movement that led to the inspiring march on the day after the pussy grabber’s inauguration and the sexual misconduct movement started a year after white women made it possible for him to win the rigged electoral college, I now realize that both of those movements were distractions from the fact that white women are as racist and almost as sexist as white men, and that they, not the Russians, the voter suppression laws, the media, Bernie Sanders, or Jim Comey are the reason we are in this mess, and black women’s lives have become much more difficult. One of my primary objections to the METOO movement was that it took the focus off of more important issues such as racism, gun violence, and “real” sexism, like the wage gap between men and women. Now I realize that the focus (after the 2016 election) on sexism by women, some of them wearing “pussy hats,” hid the fact that if 98% of white women had voted for Hillary, the pussy grabber would not have won a state. Even if 47% of white women had voted for her and 45% for him, Hillary, who won the popular vote with help from women of color, would be in the White House now, competently dealing with this health crisis. It doesn’t matter whether this focus on sexism and sexual misconduct instead of racism was a subconscious or conscious distraction, the effects have been devastating. An insane white supremacist is endangering the world while black and Jewish men are being demonized and jailed.
Several months before white women elected a self-confessed sexual assaulter and more than a year before the media-generated fake sexual misconduct movement started, I connected the focus on women as sexual prey with no agency or personal responsibility to Hillary’s candidacy for President. Believing that Emily Doe was a privileged white woman instead of a privileged half-Chinese woman, I suggested in the 6/19/16 blog post that the portrait of a white woman as so weak that she’s permanently traumatized by a drunken sexual encounter with a younger, equally drunk man would hurt Hillary’s chances. And it did, not only with men, but with white women. Why would black women overwhelmingly vote for Hillary when so many white women wouldn’t? Is it because we know that we are strong enough to be President, so when we see a strong, “persistent” white woman, we assume that she can be President too? Even if they occasionally whine (looking at you, Elizabeth) about how they lost a job when they were pregnant (I tweeted to ask if she lost the job to a black woman), we assume that women strong enough to run and win as Senator and to battle men in the Senate are strong enough to be President. Obviously, the white women of Iowa and New Hampshire don’t agree since both of the New Hampshire Democratic Senators are white women, and Iowa has one conservative white female Senator. The supposedly smart Amy Klobuchar thought that what happened in 2018 meant that the white women formerly known as soccer moms but now called suburban were ready to elect a woman President. Nope! As one conservative white woman suggested in an interview, when white women hear President, they think of a man, maybe because men who are not insane like the pussy grabber white women elected are more willing to take responsibility for their actions and much less willing to play the victim than white women are.
I have contrasted how black people like the family members of the Americans killed by a racist domestic terrorist in a church in Charleston and the young man whose brother was killed by a white female cop when the brother was sitting in his own apartment behaved to the vindictiveness of “sexual assault” victims like Emily/Chanel, the Weinstein whiners, and the Cosby bigots. But I was struck recently by how graciously two elderly white men, victims of the despicable METOO movement, behaved. The often obnoxious Matthews did not blame his bosses or women for the loss of his job. He took responsibility for being “out of step with the times” and said it was time for younger people to take over. When he was interviewed by Chris Cuomo on CNN, the totally innocent Al Franken did not condemn the Senators who signed that fake petition; he did not use his bitingly sharp wit to throw shade on those 2020 candidates from the Senate who had already lost and to predict the demise of Sanders. Instead he said that he forgave the eight Senators who had expressed regret about signing the petition and called them his friends. The so-called METOO victims who are comparing Jewish men to Hitler, Charles Manson, and Jack the Ripper could learn from these two white men.
White women, here’s how one of you can become President. Act like sane white men. 1) Refuse to accept the victim role, and take responsibility for what you did wrong, you know, hanging around and flattering older, powerful, married men like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, hoping they will help your career. 2) Stop using men’s coattails, and that includes Joe Biden, who has coattails because of two black men (Obama and Clyburn) and the black women of South Carolina, to get ahead. 3) Vote for each other, you know, the way black people did for Obama, and your husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers do for white men.
Some conservatives are urging Joe Biden to pick fellow moderate Amy Klobuchar as his running mate. This black woman who voted for Hillary and was supporting Amy until she started bragging about how she could convince those suburban (i.e. white) women to vote for her while totally ignoring the Democratic base (black women) who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary (Joe didn’t ignore us) says, “Hell, no!” A white woman needs to win the presidency by convincing her sisters to vote for her. Joe’s VP can be a brown or yellow woman, but she should be a black woman. Without us, Bernie might be deciding who would be his running mate. I said in 2017 when the despicable METOO sexual misconduct movement started that the first female President would have to be a woman of color because white women are too weak. Until white women stop whining and start voting for each other, I stand by that statement.
Let me start the “call out” with some facts: 1) 56% of the 2016 electorate was female; white females made up 41% of the 2016 electorate. While 98% of black women voting in 2016 chose Hillary Clinton, only 45% of white women did. 47% of them chose the insane white supremacist who was heard on tape bragging about grabbing pussies a few days before the election. 2) In 91% white Iowa and 93.9% white New Hampshire, the progressive baby boomer white female came in third and fourth while the moderate X-generation white female came in fifth and third in the 2020 primary/caucus. The overwhelmingly white populations of the two states which should never again start the Democratic primary calendar placed the oldest and youngest men in the race first and second. 3) So far the METOO movement has resulted in two Jewish men (Epstein and Weinstein) and two black men (Cosby and Kelly) being jailed and demonized in the media. Not one straight, Protestant white man has been jailed or even indicted (gay two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and black Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Junior have both been indicted, but the charges against Kevin were eventually dropped). Another Jewish man, 2020 frontrunner Al Franken, was run out of the Senate (karma is a bitch, which is why the six Senators who signed the petition to force Franken’s resignation and ran for President all lost, or in Bernie’s case, will lose) using fake charges that dirty political trickster Roger Stone helped orchestrate, and another black man, civil rights icon, former employer of Rosa Parks, and at the time, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers was forced to resign using fake charges instigated by Gloria Allred’s daughter Lisa Bloom because he was too old and senile to handle the job of Judiciary Chair when the Democrats won in 2018. Meanwhile the insane white supremacist, a self-confessed sexual assaulter of women, is still President, and there is a room in the Capitol building named after segregationist and father of a half-black daughter with his mother’s servant Strom Thurmond. 4) Not one of the many books written about the chaos in the White House has suggested that worst President ever Donald Trump is raping women or grabbing their pussies while pretending to be the best President ever, but brown children are in cages, people of color are being murdered, and hatred toward people of color is being promoted.
While I initially distinguished between the grassroots women’s movement that led to the inspiring march on the day after the pussy grabber’s inauguration and the sexual misconduct movement started a year after white women made it possible for him to win the rigged electoral college, I now realize that both of those movements were distractions from the fact that white women are as racist and almost as sexist as white men, and that they, not the Russians, the voter suppression laws, the media, Bernie Sanders, or Jim Comey are the reason we are in this mess, and black women’s lives have become much more difficult. One of my primary objections to the METOO movement was that it took the focus off of more important issues such as racism, gun violence, and “real” sexism, like the wage gap between men and women. Now I realize that the focus (after the 2016 election) on sexism by women, some of them wearing “pussy hats,” hid the fact that if 98% of white women had voted for Hillary, the pussy grabber would not have won a state. Even if 47% of white women had voted for her and 45% for him, Hillary, who won the popular vote with help from women of color, would be in the White House now, competently dealing with this health crisis. It doesn’t matter whether this focus on sexism and sexual misconduct instead of racism was a subconscious or conscious distraction, the effects have been devastating. An insane white supremacist is endangering the world while black and Jewish men are being demonized and jailed.
Several months before white women elected a self-confessed sexual assaulter and more than a year before the media-generated fake sexual misconduct movement started, I connected the focus on women as sexual prey with no agency or personal responsibility to Hillary’s candidacy for President. Believing that Emily Doe was a privileged white woman instead of a privileged half-Chinese woman, I suggested in the 6/19/16 blog post that the portrait of a white woman as so weak that she’s permanently traumatized by a drunken sexual encounter with a younger, equally drunk man would hurt Hillary’s chances. And it did, not only with men, but with white women. Why would black women overwhelmingly vote for Hillary when so many white women wouldn’t? Is it because we know that we are strong enough to be President, so when we see a strong, “persistent” white woman, we assume that she can be President too? Even if they occasionally whine (looking at you, Elizabeth) about how they lost a job when they were pregnant (I tweeted to ask if she lost the job to a black woman), we assume that women strong enough to run and win as Senator and to battle men in the Senate are strong enough to be President. Obviously, the white women of Iowa and New Hampshire don’t agree since both of the New Hampshire Democratic Senators are white women, and Iowa has one conservative white female Senator. The supposedly smart Amy Klobuchar thought that what happened in 2018 meant that the white women formerly known as soccer moms but now called suburban were ready to elect a woman President. Nope! As one conservative white woman suggested in an interview, when white women hear President, they think of a man, maybe because men who are not insane like the pussy grabber white women elected are more willing to take responsibility for their actions and much less willing to play the victim than white women are.
I have contrasted how black people like the family members of the Americans killed by a racist domestic terrorist in a church in Charleston and the young man whose brother was killed by a white female cop when the brother was sitting in his own apartment behaved to the vindictiveness of “sexual assault” victims like Emily/Chanel, the Weinstein whiners, and the Cosby bigots. But I was struck recently by how graciously two elderly white men, victims of the despicable METOO movement, behaved. The often obnoxious Matthews did not blame his bosses or women for the loss of his job. He took responsibility for being “out of step with the times” and said it was time for younger people to take over. When he was interviewed by Chris Cuomo on CNN, the totally innocent Al Franken did not condemn the Senators who signed that fake petition; he did not use his bitingly sharp wit to throw shade on those 2020 candidates from the Senate who had already lost and to predict the demise of Sanders. Instead he said that he forgave the eight Senators who had expressed regret about signing the petition and called them his friends. The so-called METOO victims who are comparing Jewish men to Hitler, Charles Manson, and Jack the Ripper could learn from these two white men.
White women, here’s how one of you can become President. Act like sane white men. 1) Refuse to accept the victim role, and take responsibility for what you did wrong, you know, hanging around and flattering older, powerful, married men like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, hoping they will help your career. 2) Stop using men’s coattails, and that includes Joe Biden, who has coattails because of two black men (Obama and Clyburn) and the black women of South Carolina, to get ahead. 3) Vote for each other, you know, the way black people did for Obama, and your husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers do for white men.
Some conservatives are urging Joe Biden to pick fellow moderate Amy Klobuchar as his running mate. This black woman who voted for Hillary and was supporting Amy until she started bragging about how she could convince those suburban (i.e. white) women to vote for her while totally ignoring the Democratic base (black women) who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary (Joe didn’t ignore us) says, “Hell, no!” A white woman needs to win the presidency by convincing her sisters to vote for her. Joe’s VP can be a brown or yellow woman, but she should be a black woman. Without us, Bernie might be deciding who would be his running mate. I said in 2017 when the despicable METOO sexual misconduct movement started that the first female President would have to be a woman of color because white women are too weak. Until white women stop whining and start voting for each other, I stand by that statement.
