So, Fox is covering the World Cup today. The game I've just begun watching is between Ivory Coast and Germany.
 In the few minutes I've been watching, Ivory Coast has been accused by the announcers of "pushing and shoving",  the goalie, of being "a time waster" after she went down because she was kicked in her shoulder, and another Ivory Coast player was just referred to as " a good actress" when she got kicked in the head!
Not only do women playing sports seem to be of no importance to most people, including most TV stations,  ( CBC isn't airing the games, and CTV is only playing the games when Canada is playing), but racist attitudes prevail, and continue to further divide.
Not impressed. At all.

URGENT: Unite to outlaw full inversion slaughter boxes #BanLiveExport

URGENT: Unite to outlaw full inversion slaughter boxes #BanLiveExport

I found all these beautiful images here:https:// www.facebook.com/pages/Same-Sex-Marriage-Now/236331103179644

Uganda Gay Pride!!! 2013 The First ever in a country where you can be killed for being queer!

This is courage!

Beautiful!

More from Uganda's first-ever Gay/Queer pride this past May!!!

How beautiful is this?

More about my website

So, an update. I have once again updated my website. And learned/ taught myself all kinds of cool shit.

But, the most interesting, and, albeit shitty part of this experience/journey has been how jealous men are, and when they become jealous they lash out. I posted the link to my website on some  photo groups, on good ol' Linkedin, and in those groups I have received a fricking helluva lot of shit "comments" both at Linkedin and on my site, where I am able to delete them, which I have done.

 I finally realized I could have comments flagged on Linkedin.  The comment I flagged was by a man who was not only totally rude and condescending, but I felt like he's been stalking me. He made mention of another art site where I had my website and some photos posted ( I've since, as 2 days ago now, closed that account down, for good, and erased my photos, etc.). And now he has just happened to have found me at Linkedin and took it upon himself to tell me why my site is not good.

People will always exist to stop others, to try and hurt them, put them down, and rear their ugly, jealous heads. Those people are, 9 times out of ten, men. To anyone who wants to differ with me, I'll say that I have only received positive comments and support from women re: my art, and my site.

The negativity, the " I want to teach you what's wrong with your site" etc. kind of crap, is always from men.
In the latest of the shit comments, I received yet another "here's what doesn't work for me.." on Sunday. I haven't decided to respond, ignore or what.What I guess I have to laugh at is that these idiots feel the need to put me and my work down in such time-consuming detail. They have nothing else to do?

I'm tired of that kind of man; the asshole who feels so pathetic he's got to try and take others down with him.

It's not something I expected, to put my website link up on photo forums and to have so much shit said about it; personal attacks. Kinda bullshit especially on a site aimed at linking people together for career advancement and all. It only shows that these peons are only able to say mean things because they can hide behind a computer screen.

My website

 Here is my photography website, with some updates which I'm very proud of, and which took me hours...more than 8 :0
 Have a gander..here's a fun tip, if you go to the About page, music will start and stay on for the remainder of your picture viewing, 



http://micol-kates.wix.com/lanscape-photography


:-)

Bear Cruelty, worldwide

Here's a letter I wrote just now, to a Cherokee Tribal council in Cherokee N.C ,via PETA’S website, asking the council to close their roadside ‘zoos’ that abuse bears. I have added a bit to it here.

Tribal Council,
Bears are sacred to  the Cherokee, and other First Nations Peoples. Chaining up these beautiful, majestic, and incredible animals is an evil. All over the world, so much horrible evil is constantly inflicted on bears. In China holes are bored into living bears' bodies, while they are held in tiny cages and their gall bladders are 'milked' for "medicine" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025388/China-Tortured-mother-bear-kills-cub-herself.html) This should make us all think twice about using Traditional Chinese Medicine, which still uses these barbaric practices, in order for humans to attain balance etc.In Russia, bears are "baited" --chained up and attacked by dogs as a sport for onlookers.(I couldn't bring myself to find an article about that. It is a disgusting horror)

 Humanity disgusts me! Men are always the ones responsible for war, cruelty and violence on those who can't defend themselves.

 The  bear pits in question which are attractions for many people, are in fact hell for the bears that are forced to live in them. Bears work on energy lines, similar to bees,  and they always follow the same paths.They need space to move, and roam. Beyond this, the way the bears are being horribly mistreated is disgusting, and needs to stop. The bears that are currently being forced to live in these 'zoos' need to be transferred to loving, healing sanctuaries, now. 

 Here's the link to the PETA petition site, where you can write your own letter to the Tribal Council, too. They are going to decide on Wednesday, March 6th, and will be voting on the 7th.

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4663&autologin=true&utm_campaign=0313%20Cherokee%20Bear%20Action%20Alert&utm_source=PETA%20E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert

Prostitution: The Not-So-Silent Killer

“A shivering young Thai woman in a wet T-shirt, sitting in a cage waiting for someone to strike the 'bang me' target on the image of a woman bent over.  Freezing, soaked, alone, disconnected, in an enclosure, to be ogled by men.”(http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-prostitution-pop-culture.html)

 According to the website, Prostitution: Research and Education, prostitution is defined as: “… a slave-based system of sexual exploitation” http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-prostitution-advocacy.html

An elaboration of the above definition can be felt in the following definition as defined by a group from Minnesota called Breaking Free, Inc

"We define prostitution as systematic sexual violence and oppression against women and girls. This system is institutionalized in the sex industry: stripshows, nude juice bars, massage parlors and saunas, brothels, adult book and video stores, peep shows, live sex shows, sex rings, escort services, mail order brides, streetwalking, and pornography. Each of these forms of prostitution provides men with unlimited sexual access to women and girls based solely on their ability to pay." (from it’s "Philosophy Statement" posted on the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) website (accessed Apr. 20, 2007), stated, http://prostitution.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000116)

When you look up the word "prostitute", not surprisingly, all the main entries are about women, and describe women as  "harlots", "whores", etc. If men are mentioned, terms like whore etc., are never used. In the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary, two examples are given for the word. Notice how the first example relates to a woman prostituting herself. The second is non-offensive, and is used with a male pronoun.

1. She was arrested for prostitution.
2. Writing commercials was a prostitution of his talents.

The Free Dictionary (on-line), defines a prostitute, as:

1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

2. A man who engages in such activity, esp in homosexual practices

Dictionary.com’s primary definition of a prostitute is:

“A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.”

The “sex industry”, as we have affectionately dubbed everything to do with the coercing, shaming, using, buying, and selling of women’s and girls’ bodies for sex, is not the empowered “sex worker” who chose the industry as a viable option, but a terrified, oftentimes addicted woman who was lured into it at the hands of a predatory man.

In 2012, Israel passed a law making the buying and selling of sex illegal. The shift of focus will now be placed on the “customers”, rather than on the women who have been forced into the position to sell their bodies in order to live. You can read an article on this in the link provided:

The Jerusalem Post, "Government Backs Jail Time for Soliciting Prostitution," February 12, 2012

Scandinavia, has been, and continues to be a world leader, with respect to women’s equality. In Scandinavia, laws have been created to mandate equal-pay for women, to give mothers paid maternity leave, and more recently, criminalize sex for sale. Much like Israel, Scandinavia also puts the blame on the "customers" rather than the prostitutes.

In the 1980s, Scandinavian countries developed, and put into practice what has been termed "The Nordic Model", which emphasizes gender equality, human rights and egalitarianism, among its other progressive actions, and it puts the burden of guilt on the users of prostitution rather then the women.

 

“Beginning with the passage of Sweden's Sex Purchase Act in 1999 and adopted by Sweden, Norway and Iceland, the Nordic model of law decriminalizes prostituted women, but criminalizes pimps and johns. It combines a central goal of gender equity with support for women who wish to leave the sex industry, also known as "exiting services." http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/04/11/Nordic-Prostitution-Laws/

This past year, Iceland continued along the gender-equality path, by banning strip clubs.  Not for nothing, Iceland’s PM Johanna Sigurðardóttir is female, that she’s also openly queer is just a wonderful bonus.  Said Sigurðardóttir, “It is not acceptable that women, or people in general, are a product to be sold.” (http://www.thefrisky.com/2010-03-27/iceland-bans-all-strip-clubs/)

In 2010, after only a year on the job, Sigurðardóttir's government successfully banned strip clubs, the paying for nudity in restaurants, and all other forms of employers profiting from employees' nudity, and prostitution. Sigurðardóttir said "The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale."^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hanna_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir - cite_note-salon1-35})

 North America has a lot to learn from Scandinavia. The most recent political action by Iceland, being spearheaded by its Interior Minister, Ögmundur Jónasson, is to have all porn banned from the Internet. Men journalists are not responding well to having violent porn removed, and are saying this is the work of ..."Feminists"!, which is supposed to  somehow disparage the work that is being done. Not for nothing Iceland's Interior Minister is a man.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/iceland-porn-ban-internet-banned-children-ogmundur_n_2687665.html

If America were to take even a small page from Iceland's book of progressive, feminist politics, it would need to include banning music that encourages violence towards women, specifically glamorizing the pimp/prostitute ethos that is sadly so prevalent.

To that end, a pathetic excuse for a man rapper has a violent, disgusting song, the title of which is a deeply offensive way to talk about a strip bar, or any other place where women expose their breasts. The song is called Rack City. I have written to TV stations and to the CRTC telling them how offensive, misogynist and pro-prostitution the song is and that I want it banned. If more people wrote to their CRTCs, these types of songs wouldn’t be allowed to spawn, as readily.

The song talks about forcing women into prostitution, forcing women into sex, and, of course, using pejorative language to talk about women, and their bodies. What kind of mainstream rap song would it be if women were seen as people? Here is a sample of the most disturbing lyrics:

 “Tell that bitch hop out, walk the boulevard
I need my money pronto” (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tyga/rackcity.html)

Those two lines alone make me feel sad, sick and furious.

When I typed in the maggot’s name that sings the above song, as well as the song’s name, here are a few samplings of what came up:

“A truly artful song that illustrates tyga's true proficiency in the english language.”

(http://urbanthesaur.us/urban-dictionary-rack-city “Tyga's "Rack City" is number two on the Billboard's Hip Hop Chart.”

(www.hopppilgrim.com/2012_03_01_archive.html)

And from the mouth of , hmm, what’s lower than a maggot, a predatory misogynist? Here is a quote about the song in question, from the predators who made it.

“It's very beneficial to so many young women across the country," "The strip clubs are stress relief. Welcome to Rack City!"(http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677474/tyga-wale-fabolous-rack-city-music-video.jhtml)

“Nobody really wants to be sold,” a woman in a Nevada legal brothel explained to me. Even if you know that simple fact -- that prostitution is an abusive institution for any human -- maybe you still think it can be made not so bad. Maybe you think that if prostitution happens under a roof, it is better than outside on the street.”(http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/how_prostitution_works/000219.html)

 “Another T-shirt depicted a woman bound, with a red ball stuffed in her mouth and the slogan 'Silence is golden'. "I look at that and see fun!" said the cheery saleswoman.    (http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/advocacy/000301.html)

There is no difference in the harmful, hate-filled, sad, violent imagery of the song rack city then there is in a restaurant like Hooter’s, using misogyny coupled with “acceptable” prostitution, or the woman who is being forced to “walk the boulevard”.

It’s up to each one of us to do something more than simply turn the channel when an offensive song comes on.

Write to the CRTC, and tell them you are disgusted by songs that encourage misogyny and prostitution.

Contact, and get involved in a project with The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

http://www.catwinternational.org/

Here’s another site by a sex worker turned activist

http://staceyswimme.wordpress.com/for-sex-workers/

My New Etsy Shop!

Ok, a while in the making, and it's still early days, I only opened yesterday, but all the same I've opened my shop. There was a lot to learn , and undoubtedly heaps more to learn, but it's been a cool process of figuring things out.



http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtnWhimsy

Two great Quotes and a Cute Word!

Here are two quotes, and a cute word that I’ve just recently found.

 The first quote is from a novel called Hallowe’en Party, by Agatha Christie. The quote is from a character called Mrs. Butler: she is talking about children!

“They acquire puppy fat and look like well-fattened pigs sometimes.”

The second quote is from the programme, Rosemary and Thyme; two professional gardeners who also help solve crimes, but there’s nothing Miss Marple-esque or dithering about them.

This quote is from an episode called Agua Cadaver. Rosemary and Laura have gone to Spain to work on the garden of a married, ex-boyfriend of Rosemary’s who still likes her, and has asked her to go and live with him in Spain.

Says Rosemary, to Laura’s question about whether or not she will shack up with him: “He’s got a wife, and I’ve got a life.”

I love that quote. As I say, these are not your dithering female sleuths, at all.

And finally, a cute word, which I hadn’t met before, and found in a story called The A.B.C. Murders, again by the doyenne of the cozy murder genre, Ms. Christie.

Here’s the word, "snuggery”, and even better, here’s the quote to give it context.

A man named Mr. Barnard is inviting detectives, and police into his and his wife’s “minute bungalow.”

They introduce themselves to him, and then he says  to the group, “Come into the snuggery…”

If the word was at all unclear, the narrator, Captain Hastings, gives clarity to it by saying: “..we were ensconced in the livingroom..”, but it’s so much cuter to say snuggery, rather than living room with mean little adjectives in front.

All about Ravioli

So I had a yen, the other day, to make ravioli. It's not too, hard, but I don't have a pasta machine or anything, so it was very "labour intensive", as it were.

First step, make the dough, (flour, water, olive oil, eggs, salt)

Knead dough. Then roll it into a ball, and wrap it in wax paper, or cling film,  and leave it in the fridge for an hour.

In the meantime, get working on your stuffing. Mine was caramelized red onions, with dried porcini mushrooms, that I had let soak in boiling water, along with some spinach, cranberry goat’s cheese, and crushed whole hazelnuts. I also added fresh lime juice. In a word: yum!

Then, for me, until I found a youtube video of chef Mario Battali on Martha Stewart, making ravioli, I was really having a difficult time figuring out how to stuff/ tuck everything in. My first batch looked like a cross between wontons, and little monster explosions. My ensuing batches looked better, thanks to ol’ Mario who had a pretty nifty trick for getting the top layer and bottom layer of dough to stick together.

First, he laid out his two sheets of dough, and instead of slabbing on his filling, as I had done first, he just put down a few wee dollops , then added the top sheet, and made partitions with his hand. Then he started to stick the dough together, with his fingers. Then, this is the cool part, he took a cookie cutter, and just pushed it into the top sheet of dough, over his covered dollop of filling, and worked it through until he had a totally contained, round raviolo!

Easy!

After that, here are the rest of the steps:

1)   Place a few ravioli, like 5-6, depending on how big, or little you make them, in a pot of boiling water. Let them cook for a few minutes.

2)   Then, strain then, I forgot to drain them with cold water, and put them in a container and add your sauce.

3)   Buon' appetito!

The raw ravioli. Notice the scary little one on the right,my first batch, before Mario.

The boiling of the ravioli.

Almost done; all cooked, dressed and undressed ravioli co-mingling.

A fancy close-up!

Yum!

Do you believe?

Here's some graffiti I saw the other day on the sidewalk nearing Kensington; like a beautiful omen, there was the word " Unicorns".

We all need more unicorns in our lives. 
The rest of the message said "Time and Space"
I think  "Unicorns" was at the beginning. I was walking north, and the message was written starting north going south, down the bend of the street :)

Shameful Things

I found this photo online, I can't remember the site I got it from. I'm using it because  a) I think it's awesome, and b) Shame on Uganda, indeed!

 Uganda is hoping that the world turns a blind eye to its evil of making being queer a crime punishable by death.

Nigeria too wants to criminalize being queer, including ending funding to queer rights organizations, so that queer people will be even more marginalized in that region of the world.

Now, on to Israel. So, Hamas, a militant, anti-Israel hate group and the State of Israel have agreed to an imposed cease-fire. Ok, fine. Though, here are the facts. Hamas has launched over 420 missiles into Israel, 420!! Israel has a kick-ass defense system and has stopped many of the missiles from entering the rest of the country.

Apart from Palestinians feeling justified in their vicious hate, with Hamas heading it all, the whole fucking world is totally biased against the state of Israel.

Two things: 1) Palestine is not a country. This fact has been recognized by the UN.

                     2) Anti-Jewish hate continues to frighteningly rise around the world. Organizations that sound legit, such as The World Social Forum, which I had to look up, and learned about in the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal newsletter, will be all about helping Palestine , at the event being hosted by Brazil, this year. What’s more, my idiot country is sending a rep. to the Forum from the postal worker's union. Why? What the hell do postal workers have to do with hate -based politics?! Moreover, postal workers are federal agents, ergo, our government is surreptitiously saying that it, in fact, doesn't support Israel, though, outwardly it says it does.

Ok three things: Israel not only has every right to defend itself, it is the ONLY country in that entire region of the world where queer rights exist.
  
This article outlines the politics of queer rights in Israel.
http://yulr.org/homosexual-rights-in-israel-balancing-the-religious-and-the-secular/ 

Israel, unlike all of its Muslim neighbouring countries, and area=Palestine, is very supportive of women's rights, and women's equality (the political Hasidim notwithstanding).

Here's an article written by a woman living in Israel working for the US-based National Council for Jewish Women, about women's reproductive rights in Israel.

 http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/07/09/3100216/op-ed-dont-set-back-reproductive-rights-for-israeli-women

This past year Israel created a law banning underweight models from working. This made headlines, no other country has followed suit..yet?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/21/israel-bans-underweight-models/

Israel also rallies for the rights of non-human animals.

Last year, Israel outlawed the declawing of cats! Canada, among many countries, has yet to follow.

http://www.care2.com/causes/israel-bans-cat-declawing-will-u-s-follow.html

Here’s an article about the woman who founded the Israeli SPCA http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/anglo-file/a-pioneer-of-animal-rights-in-israel.premium-1.478223

That Israel fights back is a given. Violence and war are horrible realities, made worse by the fact that , in the case of Israel, that country has been having to defend its existence even before it was declared a nation-state. For all the shit that gets talked about that country, Israel unlike all the Muslims in the area is not a medieval throwback of a country where being queer will get you murdered, or where you will get stoned to death for, say, looking at someone you aren't married to.

Here in Toronto we have a hate group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid that has been marching in Toronto's Gay Pride parade for the past few years.  Friends of Simon Wiesenthal ( FSW) has been denouncing that group as a hate group. Pride receives funding for the parade, and FSW has been asking the city to revoke funding to the parade if it continues to support hate. To date, the group is still being permitted to march in the upcoming parade this Summer. 
 This link  gives clear facts about what has been going on recently in Israel and the Gaza zone.
http://www.friendsofsimonwiesenthalcenter.com/

Ignorance and sheer biased stupidity continue to fuel people's warped realities about Israel. Israel not only has no allies in its region, but, fewer and fewer people and countries and organizations choose to publicly lend their voice in support of the Jewish state and its right to exist, and that's what this is all about. 

I remember once, some years ago, talking about Israel with someone I worked with. I was shocked when he said that Jewish people didn't need Israel, they had Canada or Argentina as places to live. I was livid. He believed that Israel should  belong to the Muslims, or more rightly, the Islamists=Palestinians, and because the Jewish people had displaced them ,they, he felt, should leave. 

Sadly, I think many people similarly to him;that even after all the horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish people still don't belong in Israel. Israel is a Jewish state; it is the only one in the world. There are 50 Muslim states in the world, Palestine is not one of them because it is not a state. Israel has to constantly defend itself  against all the Muslim countries, not just because it exists, but because it exits among so much anti-Jewish hate. We can't say anti- Semitism when so many of those who hate Israel are also Semites.

Congratulations!!!

I knew that Barack Obama would win, though, I'll admit I was getting scared early on last night as the polls started to close, and the grand dragon seemed to be in the lead. Well, not for long! 

 Indeed, Obama is the voice for change and progressive actions for America. He won by more than 80,000 votes, say some analysts, or more than 100 electoral college votes; not counting the states that hadn't finished counting their ballots by the time he went past 270 to sweep to his victory!

Obama has done for America and voter turn out, especially among Black and other non-white voters, what Nelson Mandela did for his people during his election in apartheid stricken South Africa. Both men mobilized the masses, and got people  especially of colour to the polls, in droves. Both encouraged the "forgotten masses" to vote by using tools that are accessible to all. 

In his first term, Obama got people to the polls en masse, by heavily relying on social media as an important communication tool. His campaign was all about creating clear communication, and making himself accessible. It worked, he won. 

In 1994, Mandela got Black people to the polls for the very first time in South Africa's very racist history. Most of the rural people were illiterate, and wouldn't be able to read a ballot card, so the ANC created a ballot card with all the candidates colour photos on it. That was ingenious, and history was created, as South Africa finally had it's first leader of colour!
                      South African ballot card, from 1994

Obama, true to his words, always manages to get people "fired up, ready to go!", to quote him. This time around people knew how life-or-death this election was, and astoundingly waited in line for as long as 6 hours, or more, to cast their ballots. 6 hours! That's unheard of in first world countries, isn't it? But then again, a nation of 300,000,000 people battling issues that are usually reserved for the third world knew what the outcome would be if they didn't choose the only person with a feminist agenda, a socialist agenda, and an agenda of compassion, and direct action.
   
Thankfully, Obama's words fired people  up enough  and created an important impact   because Americans were sure not going to let a sheet wearing dragon called mitten win.

Some friends I made on my trip to Scotland

On my recent trip to Scotland, I made some cute friends; the 

 humans I met weren't nearly as cute.

 

This is a Highland cow, I've forgotten her name but she's 1 and a half. How cute?!

 This little cutie would greet me everyday by running full-tilt at me, which scared the crap out of me at first, until I realized that she was waiting for snacks. She would run, and come right up to me licking her little lips, waiting. Her little friends would stand further afield licking their lips too. She did get snacks from me:)Her friends didn't because they were too shy to really come close, and if I went too close to them they would trot away.

 I love this wee dog, Saffie. She walked me everywhere, showed me her belly, and even protected me from a big, scary biting dog!

How witchy and cute!

A Sign of the Times

                 How cute is this?! I think I may bring my girls..too cute

The Presidential Debates: Round 1

Last night, during the first round of presidential debates, Barak Obama was his usual eloquent, erudite self, and, as always, behaved like a gentleman as he debated against the grand dragon mit(tten) romney.

mitten, as he will heretofore be referred to as, behaved just like himself: the filthy, bullying, lying, hateful bigot, who had the nerve to imply very clearly that the President was a liar and simply made up his facts!

Obama didn’t stoop to the smear-tactics of mitten, he rose above the slander, always looked the dragon directly in the eyes with a clear countenance, and never once interrupted him.

The dragon not only bullied his way into interrupting the President, many times, but also the pathetic mediator whose job it was to mediate, and to not allow one opponent to railroad everyone. However, the mediator was a bumbling loser who refused to do his job, and so the dragon got heaps more air time.  How the hell is that fair?!

At one point mitten tripped himself up not hard with his zero IQ, and talked about “poor people”, and then quickly realized what he had just done; a modern-day ross perot- “you people”. He then tried to quickly redress it by covering it over saying instead “Low-income people”. Too late mitten. We saw your face as you realized you’d fucked up out loud, and live, and we heard you condescend to all non-billionaires!

I hope America won’t allow the wool of mitten’s grand dragon sheet to be pulled over their eyes.

America needs Barak Obama for another term, though if they don’t vote for him, they deserve the shit that mr. liar- liar- burning -cross -on- fire hands out.

It Takes a Village to Raise a Misogynist

 

Things I overheard today , the eve before my Federal Government decides whether abortion can, and should still be free and available to all women in Canada.

This first conversation snippet I overheard while at Rexall. There were 2 men and a woman, standing in an aisle holding a conversation. One of the men was talking at the top of his lungs:

“...Oh yeah, by the way, this is my wife.” She works for me.” The man who spoke had been talking for about 5 minutes before it dawned on him to vaguely mention “the wife”, no name, nothing else. Mind, she didn’t speak up either. Also notice the preposition he used, "for", not with.

“My wife works for me too” said the other caveman.

One of these two neanderthals, I don't know which, I was in another aisle, then went on to say he had children at home, and kept referring to them as his children, and how he looks after them or sees them when he gets home. I guess the wife of his who also works for him is exempt from “wife duties?” Could it be?

No, it’s just that men are very, very selfish. Men always talk about themselves, first. They see the world in terms of how it relates to them and their viewpoint.

“My kids, my wife…me, me me.”

Same store..while I was at the cash..the man manager to the female cashier:

“girl-managers, … we need to get the girls...”

 Me to the cashier: “He just said girl-manager, what about boy-manager?

Her: “Yeah, girls vs boys. There are some things that need heavy lifting, so…

I raised my eyebrows in disgust.

Earlier this evening I was watching stupid shows with heterosexual couples who want to buy houses. In the first show, the male provided the oooh so big, $15,000 down payment, and then said to the woman, who was purportedly his girlfriend, never “partner”, that he should make the decisions about what to put in the house because he had paid.

 She was upset, but did nothing. He  kept saying  he was happy to have a space for himself, in his new home. She kept trying to correct him, and get him to be inclusive, but really, if you have to correct someone and fucking remind them to value you, you've lost the plot!

The idiot man who was designing the house, put up black and white photos the caveman had taken on trips.The designer said he hadn't seen even one photo with the girlfriend in it, and still he put them up. She playfully punched her boyfriend, cuz she was real upset. Meanwhile the boyfriend complimented himself on his artistic skill. Wow!

What I want to know is, why do women stay? Why put up with a demented, barbaric, rude, and, lest we forget, selfish caveman? Why?

The next show, same idea, only this time said young, het couple were getting an $85, 000 down payment from the husband’s parents. Sounds ok. The problems?

The parents were very openly rude to their son’s wife, and their son had absolutely zero backbone. The parents were insulting their daughter-in-law in front of the son, and he’d keep quiet.

Again, I gotta ask, why the fuck would you stay?!!! Your spouse won’t stand up for you, and your in-laws are misogynist throw-backs. If you stay, you too have no spine.

“Abortion should always be free. Do not support motion M-312! Supporting it will erode Canada's image as a freedom-supporting, progressive nation. If you criminalize my right to choose, you will turn Canada into an oligarchy of misogyny”

( my comment on today's petition https://leadnow.netdonor.net/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1694&ea.campaign.id=16616&forwarded=true)