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UTUSN

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13. Wow. I got up from my bed to be able to type.
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 03:06 PM
Aug 2013

Last edited Sun Aug 4, 2013, 03:42 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm glad you refrained from name-calling or labeling me, but for you to say that my comments about this writer were based on gender is quite enough.

I don't expect you or anybody on a board as large as this to know what everybody stands for, and I don't have to prove myself or my personal history to you. I'll just leave it at this, that I've said multiple times (and don't expect anybody to note it or care), that NO member group of the Dem coalition gets a get-out-of-jail gold card, that if somebody who is a member of whatever group -- race, ethnic, gender, or whatever --- says something needing criticism or does something criminal, there is NO free pass. That is what equality is about.

I frequently rail against media/journalists for not knowing enough or investigating enough or being lazy. By the way, my original comments were not nearly so harsh as I am NOW sounding. If this person, or you, didn't know that Texas is ruled by a 6% of the population with its Wingnut minority, and that sexism is a major tenet of wingnutism, I don't know what to say.

I haven't re-read this thread but remember that at least one other poster commented that this writer needed to have read some Molly IVINS.

Wow back at you. Oh, and:


But they have family values ya know newfie11 Aug 2013 #1
sadly, this is not in the least surprising. I wonder if she read molly's work. niyad Aug 2013 #2
K & R Scurrilous Aug 2013 #3
It appears the Texas Legislature is a hostile work environment for women. alfredo Aug 2013 #4
Hostile enviroment, for women, full stop. No need to qualify it with the "work" adjective. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2013 #5
True. Women just get in the way when trying to take away their rights. alfredo Aug 2013 #11
I would love to hear a black females detailed 140 days experience in the TX legislator Heather MC Aug 2013 #6
did you read the article? it could provide some insight that you are looking for. boston bean Aug 2013 #7
Thanks I read the snipit then the asked the question : -) Heather MC Aug 2013 #8
Stop creepy Christian Sharia ZRT2209 Aug 2013 #9
It's clear that Journalism attracts the sharpest tools in the shed if this person "didn't know" UTUSN Aug 2013 #10
Why do you feel the need to criticize this woman like that? boston bean Aug 2013 #12
Wow. I got up from my bed to be able to type. UTUSN Aug 2013 #13
my comment to you was meant to boston bean Aug 2013 #14
Of course I had no defense to make. If you knew me, you'd know that. The "problems she points out" UTUSN Aug 2013 #16
Until I read an article about this a few days ago I never thought it was happening. LiberalFighter Aug 2013 #15
Really? You never thought it was happening? All of us, when we are YOUNG/UNINFORMED UTUSN Aug 2013 #17
There are 50 states and I'm not going to keep tabs on what is happening in all of them. LiberalFighter Aug 2013 #18
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