Hey ladies – do you need someone like Teresa Heinz-Kerry re-affirming the fact that you are wise, intelligent and worthy?
Do you need her to be your role model as a woman who is able to speak her mind and show you the way toward enlightenment.
Do you still dream of a world where a woman can speak her mind?
Don’t you already live in that world today? I do.
I say this – - it’s 2004. If you’re a woman and you STILL need a role model to get you through life – - reaffirming your role in society…get therapy, quick! Run, don’t walk!
Women needed such role models in the 50′s and 60′s – - maybe the 70′s and perhaps the 80′s as the glass ceiling broke. But in the 00′s – I need a female role model like I need a pair of leg warmers.
Her tripe about women being called “well-informed, instead of opinionated” and how “It is time for the world to hear women’s voices, in full and at last.” – - damn, I was about to burn my bra. That line of thinking is SO yesterday. I pretty well assume that society generally knows that women are worthy and have the capacity for being intelligent, thinking beings.
Duh *blonde hair twirl for effect*
I get the feeling that Teresa Heinz-Kerry just came upon that realization very recently, which is why she needs to constantly reaffirm it – - as if she is trying to convince somebody out there. She really needs to give the women of the modern world a whole bunch more credit, I’m tellin’ ya.
Now, I have women that I admire a great deal. Margaret Thatcher is right up there. Condi Rice, is another one. I admire what they’ve done – what they mean, and meant, to the history of his world. I appreciate, with full and heartfelt gratitude, the women of history who paved the way for women’s rights. However, as a women in this day and age – I don’t feel my voice is stifled. I don’t feel as if I’m looked down upon or undervalued. I don’t feel like I need trail blazers to pave that road anymore.
If, in this day and age, women aren’t blazing their own trails, forging their own path and making their own way without looking to someone else to do it for them, or someone else to make it “ok” for them to do it – well, I can’t relate.
Maybe that’s my issue. I just can’t relate. Her speech rubbed me the wrong way – does it show?
Ok. Done.
But, but, but!
She can speak FOUR languages! You must, you simply MUST hang upon her every word!
Five, I thought.
I know of women who speak only one who are more riveting to listen to.
Awww, you already mentioned Condi. I was going to mention Condi.
Just about anyone is more riveting, did hear speech, well excepting Michael Moore and the Air America crew.
I just have to say this: when my mom first saw Teresa, she thought she was John Kerry’s mom. Hee!
Condi rocks.
I don’t know-I don’t really care for her that much, but I’ll be honest and say that at least the chick seems to have a faster pulse than Laura Bush. And as far as being liberated goes? The most repressed one I can remember was Tipper Gore, who had “Stand By Your Man” on apparently permanent playback in her station wagon.
“Margaret Thatcher is right up there” ….. she may have been the first woman prime minister but she was a woman who pretended to be a man – she was hardly, well, “feminine”. (And she was a conservative! Which is kinda strange if you think about it – I mean, woman leaders, whatever next?! Homosexuals gettimg married or something
).
Personally I think the next US president needs to be female, black, preferably gay, and most importantly an atheist … ..
Wasn’t Tipper Gore the one who wanted to “get back control of kids” by trying to ban evil rock music with naughty words in?
Yes, Tipper was. And I don’t think America can deal with a female President, not any time soon. It wouldn’t be a good thing.
Yup. Notice that the Republicans aren’t doing the “we need our voices heard” thing. They’re just *doing* it. Strong women. Strong blacks. Strong hispanics.
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Excellent point, Michael. It’s being done. It’s already happening. The only person holding us back is ourselves – - we don’t need the government (or some role model) holding our hands and telling us it’s OK.
The thing I really took issue with in regards to her speech was the overall impression of “Woman As Victim”. Women are already ‘there’.
The sisters are doin it for themselves, man. lol
I don’t know…Teresa Heinz-Kerry or Laura Bush. Do you think Laura Bush has actually done anything with her “Let’s Read” platform (sorry but it made me gag in today’s world). Do you think the first graders have gotten the message?
Yikes. Sorry. I just am in another hemisphere ; )
Peace to you.
I don’t know, Fredette. If I weigh encouraging children to read with encouraging women to remain in that victim mode of “we have to fight for the right” – -I’d go with Laura’s platform.
Of course women have the right. That is a given. Maybe she could take her platform over to a newly liberated middle eastern country where women actually DO need to fight to be heard – - it’s a new concept over there, courtesy of the US lead coalition.
Don’t fret, WMW – - 3rd largest in the econ. category isn’t a bad place to be
You prove my point – - women are already there
*sniff sniff*
Lisa is that Victoria’s Secret angel lace I smell burning over there?
LOL Uptown Girl. You are SO funny!
HAHAHAHAH!
Hey – thanks for posting a comment. Thank you very much! MMmmmmwwwwwwaaah!
Lisa you are my hero! lol
Oh fer crying out loud.
you started it. I’m just trying to keep up.
Well, YOU commented when you said you weren’t gonna!
well YOU shouldn’t make posts like this then because it tempted me so much I had to comment and then you thanked me for commenting and it starts our vicious circle all over again LOL
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The thing that really irks me about the kind of feminism Heinz-Kerry seems to be advocating is that it denigrates the kind of contribution women have traditionally had, the kind of voice women have traditionally had. Since when is being the primary person raising children a way not to be influential? Women’s voices have traditionally shaped the next generation, and those who encourage them in that are giving much more credit to their voices than those who insist that you have to be out there fighting for things to count as having an impact. Those are the people who silence women’s voices.
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You admire Condi Rice must be good for your soul but how can you admire someone who dropped the ball on 9-1-1. There were so many signs telling the administration and Condi in particular something was brewing but they did NOTHING. Do you think the President read the August 8th PDB telling about the plan in the works. If he did he wouldn’t have sat in the classroom looking like a scared rabbit and he wouldn’t spent the entire day hiding and he wouldn’t have made the comment that the plane was being flown by a bad pilot. Condi said under oath that the PDB was “historic” information but the author of the PDB said it was a warning. Condi did nothing. Her position is “national security advisor” but nothing was done. Don’t forget 9-1-1 happened on G.W.Bush’s watch and they dropped the ball, they did nothing. Notice how all the focus from the administration is after 9-1-1 and it’s all about Iraq who didn’t attack the USA, didn’t have WMD, wasn’t at war with any of it’s neighbors and didn’t welcome our poor troops as liberators. Have you ever asked yourself how many INNOCENT Iraqi people have died since the invasion? Does it matter to you that innocent families lost loved ones? Where is your compassion? Things happened under Clinton’s watch and he’s been held responsible for it, both good and bad. The first trade center bombing produced ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS. The Clinton administration stopped numerous plots against America including a plot to kill G.H.W.Bush. Please take some time to find out for yourself that this administration did nothing prior to 9-1-1. Have you read Paul O’Neil’s book? Have you read Richard Clark’s book? Both of these patriots couldn’t stand by quietly. Have you watched the FRONTLINES documentary about Richard Clark’s friend and former FBI agent John O’Neil who was head of security at the World Trade Center and died there on 9-1-1. The President has made mistake after mistake in foreign policy (he’s actually increased worldwide terrorism, take the time to find out how many countries have been victims of terrorist attacks since 9-1-1). He’s taken a slurplus and turned it into the largest debt in history. Did you know the financing of the war isn’t even on the federal budget? It’s being paid by borrowing and mostly being paid by us, 200 BILLION dollars and counting. Didn’t your hear about the recent Congressional Budget Office report that says the middle class is paying for the richest 2% tax cuts. Sound very compasionate to me. I could go on but I won’t. I hope you do some research for the truth or will you just go on with your head in the sand. Too bad your head isn’t in Iraqi sand because you just might want to open your eyes.