I'm an uppity woman who appreciates the uppity women who preceded me.

[Maddy McCall]

If you're an uppity woman, or a man who appreciates uppity women, please post here.

I appreciate organizations like NARAL and NOW, regardless of which candidate they endorse, because those organizations have worked tirelessly to help women achieve equality--even for those women who today deny that NOW or NARAL have ever done anything to help them, or who think that "feminist" is a dirty word.

[LostinVA]

1. I pity you

hehehehehehhehe

[Maddy McCall]

2. Infuriating...

the stuff I've read today. :banghead:

It's raining here, or I WOULD be fishing.

[calimary]

110. NO KIDDING!

:mad: :grr:


What really burns me up is the complacency of some of the younger-generation women I've encountered. As well as among women in my general age group.

STILL so much of the "NAAAAHHHH... It'll NEVER happen!" "Abortion outlawed? NAAAAAAAHHH, not gonna happen. Not gonna happen."

YOU WANNA MAKE A BET?????? It's ABOUT to happen!!! ONE more Supreme Court justice and it's finished! ONE more republi-CON president and it's finished. Back to the drawing board - and the coat hangers, kids. Back to women hemmorhaging to death trying to get an underground abortion. AT LEAST another generation or so before we change it BACK again, once it goes. And won't they all be shocked all of a sudden when it hits 'em in the face like a big fat ice-encrusted snowball! That is, if we can even overcome the apathy and continued complacency that seems to reign supreme throughout our country anymore.

Look how fired-up people AREN'T getting about IMPEACHMENT, forcryingoutloud! Look how lulled back to sleep most of the nation is about the war now!

I've spoken to some of my daughter's friends about this, whenever political or current-events discussion comes up. And I tell them how our generation struggled, fought, marched, protested, went on hunger strikes, petitioned, and KEPT fighting, for the simple right to have the last word over what happens to OUR bodies. And how we worked like dogs to win complete passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Anybody remember the shrieks of horror - "BUT, BUT, BUT... WOMEN WILL BE IN COMBAT!!!! AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!" Well, we presently have lots of women in combat, and some women combat DEATHS by now, from Iraq - and the ERA didn't have ANYTHING to do with that. A precious few of my daughter's friends even slightly grasp or appreciate that, and some have never even heard about the history behind the women's movement. Their own mothers haven't bothered to share it with them - probably because their own mothers weren't that active or didn't really give a damn. Sigh...

The sad part is - with some of these people, it won't hit home until too late - when one of their friends bleeds to death because she tried to abort a pregnancy by herself or at some friend's house, and couldn't go to her parents, couldn't afford to go to Mexico, couldn't find anyone to help or even to lisen to her, and failed.

It's so frustrating I could STILL tear my hair!

[ieoeja]

117. You must have missed the birth control riot in Chicago a couple years ago.

A downtown pharmacist tried the, "birth control is against my religion so I'm not filling this prescription" tactic. The customer went off on her. Other customers heard the commotion and joined in the hollering. Word spread out onto the street. Soon the store was swamped with angry women.

Cops closed the store. Governor issued an executive order that very same night requiring pharmacists to fill any and all prescriptions presented them.

You think the women helping to run these Fortune 500 companies are going to let abortion be banned? Had South Dakota passed that abortion ban recently, every major company in the United States would have shut down everything they had in South Dakota and refused to do business with SD businesses.

You're right. Today's women are not out campaigning on these issues. They are not marching in the streets. They don't have to. Because they are now sitting in the board rooms calling the shots.

In the 60s and 70s they had no power. Today they do. The old tactics would be mostly a waste of time compared to what they can accomplish much more easily today.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Iron my shirt!

you libbers are getting too uppity.

[Maddy McCall]

5. I'll put arsenic in your coffee.

:P

[MonkeyFunk]

8. It'd be a step up

from the swill you usually make. Didn't your mama teach you nuthin'?

[Maddy McCall]

15. She taught me to take a valium and it'll all go away.

:P

[MonkeyFunk]

19. LOL

Did we have the same mother?

[Maddy McCall]

I am adopted.

Your mom wasn't anywhere around San Antonio in 1965?

[MonkeyFunk]

29. Not that I know of

but who knows what towns the carnival visited?

[Maddy McCall]

32. ___

:spray:

:rofl:

[Maven]

Not arsenic, Skinny and Sweet!

P.S. I love uppity women.

[LostinVA]

Dupe

[LostinVA]

7. I'm not a libber

At least, not since I got married, apparently. I think libbers might not be allowed to have sex either.

:eyes:

[MonkeyFunk]

13. Lesbian marriage

is a patriarchal institution.

[LostinVA]

17. Who knew?

I certainly didn't.

[MonkeyFunk]

24. I think Camille Paglia issued a statement

[LostinVA]

27. Figures she's behind it

:puke:

[Marrah_G]

41. ROFL you beat me too it !

Just when you think you have seen the bottom of the pit of stupidity it drops out yet again.......

[LostinVA]

76. I think you should go over there and pray with me

I'm praying for her.

[Marrah_G]

37. Oh No You Dinnt !

:spank:

[calimary]

113. My favorite reply to that is

"why sure! As long as you're still in it." (Fill in the icon here with the "sweetly" batting eyelashes.)

[Iceburg]

4. If it weren't for uppity women only white males would be voting today /nt

[Maddy McCall]

10. And sitting on juries---as late as the 1960s.

[MADem]

6. Uppity women are the BEST! I'd want one on my side in a knife fight, that's for sure! NT

[crawfish]

9. oh yeah?

Well, without uppity women Ann Coulter would still be man...

[LostinVA]

11. And here comes the transphobia -- Ann Coulter is not a man.

[crawfish]

That's the trouble with uppity women...

they have no sense of humor.

OK, I'm sorry. :spank:

O8)

[Maddy McCall]

40. Yes, we do. You're just not funny.

Say something funny. I'll laugh. Promise.

[LostinVA]

77. No -- you're just not funny

:eyes:

[Maddy McCall]

14. And without your bigoted ignorance, you might make some sense.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. sorry

Ann's a straight, white woman. She's all yours.

[LostinVA]

23. They've been here five years and they use their 99th post on THAT

[crawfish]

63. It was about five years ago...

That my silliness got me chased away the first time.

DU has always been a tough place for the irreverent. Even when done with, I assure you, the purest of intentions. O8)

[jazzjunkysue]

86. Too true. Irony and sarcasm rarely work here, or I would attempt it more often.

Some people don't appreciate the vagueness of pixels and their potential for humor. I once posted that if I were going to have a blonde in pumps in the oval office, I'd prefer Rudy.

3...2...1....

I'M A TROLL!!!!

Here it comes.....No humor....

[Marrah_G]

43. Nuh uh.....I lay no claim to that woman....she is in a class all her own.

[Bake]

108. Ooooh, no thanks.

She's probably got something toxic and contagious ....

Bake

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. she is a straight white christian women. you guys need to take ownership of your fuck ups.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Uppity woman here!

Great post!:thumbsup:

[Maddy McCall]

20. Thank you.

:hug:

[murbley40]

116. Another uppity woman here.

[Uncle Sinister]

18. Man who loves uppity women checking in!

My grandma was uppity, my mom was uppity, my ex-wife is uppity (not why we split)

Smart, strong, determined women are sexy as hell, wouldn't have 'em any other way.

Now, would you PLEASE iron my shirt? (j/k)

[Marrah_G]

44. OOOOooooo

:spank:

[Uncle Sinister]

46. SPANKED by uppity woman! w00t!

[Marrah_G]

62. Twice !

:spank:

[Uncle Sinister]

75. I think I'm in love

:loveya:

[cd3dem]

21. I lost my job as a H.S. teacher because the principal asked me if I was a man-hating-feminist

WTF? the assistant principal's son accused me first after I told him his goal/ambition to have multiple women would lead him to a large amount of child-support coming out of his check... I taught a class on Independent Living skills... he did not like me trashing his life goals...

the principal agreed...

[Maddy McCall]

28. I worked with a women's group...

We elected a chair--our choice was a huge mistake.

At our first function, the woman stepped up to the mic and said, "Now we're not man-haters or anything."

:banghead:

[lumberjack_jeff]

105. You just know that nothing good comes after that disclaimer.

:rofl:

[Uncle Sinister]

78. See what happens when you don't iron his shirts?

Hope you ironed his balls on your way out.

[lumberjack_jeff]

103. Do you give similar advice to the girls in your class?

I find this post to not fit very well in a thread dedicated to celebrating liberation.

[cd3dem]

107. my point is that people think a feminist is a "man-hater"

It is illegal to ask a person a question like that on the job!


and I had never had a student put together a poster of his or her future life and point out his/her dream of being a player...

I never had a female brag she planned to keep multiple partners, so I can't say I gave any advice like that before... I have mentioned my brother who got his girlfriend PG at 18 and the emotional and financial cost... boys tend to listen better to that more than save yourself for marriage...

[ShortnFiery]

22. Oh brother, this is THICK! If someone calls "a group hug" I'm getting the hell out of here!

I'm an uppity broad who prefers SPIKE TV & PLAYING WITH BOYS AS WELL AS GIRLS. :evilgrin:

No need to segregate. ;)

[no name no slogan]

35. Koom-by-ahh...

[Kat 333]

99. If someone calls "a group hug" I'm getting the hell out of here!

GROUP HUG !!!

[Blue-Jay]

25. I married an uppity woman, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Does that count?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. uppity women unite.

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

34. Here's a novel thought:

HUMANITY UNITE? :-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. if you want to pretend that no sexism occurs in the world or in politics. you go ahead now

i like to live in the reality of the world.

NOW is still an important organization for women

its still important for women to understand and fight against sexism and misogyny

[ShortnFiery]

49. Don't even begin to lecture me. I was within one of the first groups of women integrated into

the Regular Army from the Women's Army Corps during the 1970s.

I'm NOT your *sister* and I won't pretend that I am.

Why? Because it's not all this self-congratulatory blather that paves way for our daughters but the women who have come before us and who will come after us.

FEMINISM is NOT "all about just WOMEN" but it's a part of The Larger Issue of "Civil Rights" too.

No, I'd rather be a part of HUMANITY rather than your seemingly exclusive club. I enjoyed Girl Scouts but that was 7th Grade and that's long over.

I'd rather let my past achievements stand on their own than feign any understanding of what someone whom I've never met has been through.

That's why I get nervous when other women try to make HRC seem like she's "all women" because I don't even LIKE her as a human being. There's no reason to get into her gender because I don't trust The Human Being who is HRC. :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

55. You know...

there are women who have experienced great achievment because of the work of feminists who paved the way for them...yet they somehow find themselves superior to their female peers and reject that anything done by feminists in the past benefited them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

66. to me feminism is about women. if you dont like hrc dont vote for her.

however the solidarity is important to me. it might not be to you, and thats your prerogative.

[ShortnFiery]

74. Hello? There is NO hope for "solidarity" if you wish to faction-out HUMANITY. ...

Feminism is one element to the multi-faceted miracle we term "HUMANITY."

The more you try to segregate us women OUT, the more you encourage separatism and elitist attitudes.

We *ALL* are inter-related in a way that SHOULD NOT be factioned-out for "separate but equal" treatment within The Human Race.

[trof]

30. Durned uppity womenfolk.

Give 'em an inch and they'll take the White House.
:-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. cute

:hi:

[KennedyGuy]

36. I don't find you uppity at all..

forceful and direct/
yes..
Uppity..?
Nah..

[KitchenWitch]

39. Uppity, Present but NOT accounted for!

:D

[Maddy McCall]

42. Hi, Kitchie.

:hi:

[Marrah_G]

45. I am an Uppity Witch !

[Maddy McCall]

47. Hi, Marrah!

:hi:

[uppityperson]

48. Indeed. Here's a cheer for uppitywomen and men and other uppitypeople!

[rodeodance]

52. I 2nd that E-motion~~

[Tom Rinaldo]

50. Count me with your male supporters. Count me as a strong one n/t

[Maddy McCall]

51. ...

:hug:

I've thought the world of you and your posts since we first crossed paths.

[NCarolinawoman]

59. You are a Mensch, Tom Rinaldo.

That has been obvious to me for some time.

:thumbsup: :)

[hfojvt]

53. since uppity means "arrogant or snobbish" I don't really like the term

although I presume it does not really mean uppity, only that if you ever try to stand up for yourself and refuse to be submissive that you will be called uppity by some people. Ironically though, when my grandmother went to high school in 1908 one of the people she had to fight the hardest, was her own mother.

What about "radical" instead of "uppity"? Or is it uppity of me to suggest that?

Perspicacious women?

[Maddy McCall]

57. It's a label that has been foisted on women for decades...

and many feminists have taken ownership of it.

Maybe I should have put it in quotation marks.

[Der Blaue Engel]

60. Or definition #2:

2. rebelliously self-assertive; not inclined to be tractable or deferential.

Works for me. :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

64. Me, too.

I like it! :D

[OzarkDem]

73. It comes from the history of the women's movement

Back in the day, if you were in the trenches fighting for equal rights, you were called many, many names. Uppity was one of the more polite ones.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

89. I don't remember that one being used. Maybe it was a regional thing

;) The only ones I remember were much less polite, and fueled the fire in some (like me) while putting it out in others.

[uppityperson]

98. For me it means not being submissive.

Just beware calling me uppity. O8)

[Der Blaue Engel]

54. Yay, uppity women!

:toast:

Uppity Betty

[Justpat]

56. Uppity Woman was one of the kinder things I was called in the day.

When I was younger I was one of the first women jockeys in the country.

We were regularly told to go back to our kitchens (I was never in one), we were told
by fans, trainers,and other jocks what we could do with our vacuum cleaner (ouch)
and routinely called the C word.

You had to have really thick skin just to survive. We were trashed for simply
wanting to do a kind of work that had always been a man's job. If we were good
at it, we were grudgingly told that we "rode like a man".

I never regretted doing what I did. And I am proud of what a lot of us
women accomplished in those days. We broke ground that was traditionally
the sole occupations of men.

So today I went to vote for the first woman with a real chance to be president
of the United States. Whoever wins this, I'll support 100%. But I hope it is
Hillary. We have waited and many of us paid our dues in this life just to be
able to work and participate in life in ways not previously approved by the
society.


I am a proud Uppity Woman.

[Maddy McCall]

61. Wow.

Thank you. Your story is inspiring. YOU are inspiring.

:yourock:

[Justpat]

65. Thank you, Maddy McCall.

:yourock: too

[La Lioness Priyanka]

71. that was very moving. thank you for posting that.

[DURHAM D]

84. Thank you for your post. It is very inspiring.

Cheers to you for your accomplishments and congrats to you for your personal triumph.

Today I am thinking about my grandmother. She died during WWII - shortly after I was born. Her family was embarrassed by her and constantly pressured her to stop her advocacy for the vote. But she was a proud and strong suffragist and just ignored them. I have a picture of her in a parade wearing all white - my father (a toddler at the time) also dressed all in white is holding her hand.

This past Christmas my Dad and I talked about the strong and uppity woman I never knew. He wept as he talked about how proud and happy she would be about Hillary's candidacy. He also said she would be mad as hell that it took about 75 years too long to get here.

A toast to my grandmother - her name is Ethel.

[Justpat]

85. Thanks for sharing your grandmother's story.

Yes, indeed, a toast to Ethel.


You are lucky to have such a strong woman as a role model in your life.
Thanks again for sharing this.

It made my cry. :hug:

[DURHAM D]

88. Thanks back at ya.

A toast to all suffragists seems in order.

:toast:

:patriot:

[Maddy McCall]

87. I would LOVE to see that photo of Ethel.

What a treasure that is for your family.

[Politicub]

58. Uppity women rock!

And uppity GLBT folks make my heart race as well.

[tandot]

67. Proudly checking in...

ya'll made me LOL reading this (and the other) thread. If there is any day for Xanax, today is the day.

... I guess I am a "danger to women and feminism" too because I don't mind having Hillary as President...Who knew???

[TacticalPeek]

68. If it wasn't for uppity wimmens,

I wouldn't have no wimmens at all.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

69. Uppity as all get out here!

Among the many credentials I could claim for this title, I am proud to say I flunked Sears Charm School.

I should really refund my parents' money on that one. :-)

[Beausoir]

70. Kick for the women who fight the good fight.

[OzarkDem]

72. Uppity woman here!

I'm old enough to understand how other women sacrificed to advance women's issues and am very grateful for that.

I know we would all like to think we have the right to a good career because we're smart or economic independence because we manage our finances well or that we can run for and hold public office because we're qualified and work hard, but the bottom line is there was a time when none of these things would have happened regardless of how qualified, smart or hard working we are.

Someone had to be the pioneer, the one to be the first and take all the shit without reaping the rewards. I've done it a few times myself and my hats off to all the others who blazed the trail ahead of me.

[Maddy McCall]

83. Great post!

:thumbsup:

[Mark Twain Girl]

79. Checking in! Thank you, my dear uppity sisters!

Heck yes, a cheer for the uppity women who fought for my rights, against such great odds. I stand tall because of the women who refused to sit down.

[Justpat]

82. Hello, Mark Twain Girl!

:hi:

[Joey Liberal]

80. I like uppity broads n/t

[redqueen]

81. Love this!

:yourock:

[sfam]

90. I'm an Obama supporter, but nice thread!

People should absolutely be happy to support their choice. I love the OP!

[Maddy McCall]

93. Thank you.

I like Obama and Hillary. NARAL supports Obama. NOW supports Clinton.

I'm sad to see these progressive women's groups trashed over their endorsements.

(And my eighty-year-old white Southern Baptist deacon politically-independent dad is going to vote for Obama in March. :) )

[Recursion]

91. Err... what is that last picture?

Whatever it is looks incredibly painful.

[Justpat]

92. My grandmother was an Uppity Woman of the highest order.

She was the vice chairwoman of the Democratic party in Indiana in the late forties and fifties.
It was terribly segregated in those days and she
used to go to the Black section of Indianapolis to register people for the Dems and also to hold talks about the importance of registering and voting. She used to drag my mother along with her
when my mother was really small. Then by High School, my mother was the one giving talks and
urging people to get out and vote.

My grandfather was horrified at her activities. This was back in the day when women did not
do much outside of the home except for teaching and secretarial stuff. Ann said the hell with
that and followed her passion for politics.

When she thought things were not going well in local politics she was not above taking
herself downtown to give the offending party a piece of her mind. She had the hilarious
idea that she was entitled to tell anyone off as long she was wearing a really nice hat
and all her accessories matched. She was a trip.

She was so passionate about politics and the responsibility we have as citizens to work
for our country to make it better. She was for civil rights for African Americans when to
do so caused a lot of grief for my grandfather who held an job with the city.

I have a long history of Uppity Women in my family. But Ann was a real original.

[Maddy McCall]

94. I love these stories.

Thanks for telling us about Ann. I think I would have liked her! :)

[Justpat]

95. If you liked brutal honesty, you would have loved her. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

96. Uppity woman reporting for duty

:patriot:

And thanking all the uppity women who've broken all the glass ceilings before me!!

Thanks for this, Maddy!!

[Maddy McCall]

97. YQW.

:hi: :patriot:

[Bongo Prophet]

100. I appreciate and honor my bold and free sisters, and the ones who blazed the path

This is SO much bigger than the squabbles - so much history is being made.
Taking time to reflect on this in a larger context is absolutely uplifting and, well...LIBERATING.

Thank you Maddie, for the intent and execution of this post.

We are family
:grouphug:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

101. I'm an uppity woman who appreciates Maddy McCall

:cheers:

[Skidmore]

102. Maddy, great thread.

My grandmothers and my mother were uppity women. I'm an uppity woman and my daughter is too.

This time my vote was for the generations to come. I don't begrudge Hillary her run at all. I do think it is time for the young to be involved in the process and other groups that have been more disenfranchised than me. Just the way I feel right now.

Peace, sister.

[Elspeth]

104. K & R

:)

[boricua79]

106. I don't mind women who want equality

I don't like women who take "uppitiness" to extremes that alienate others, including other women.

A personal anecdote comes to mind. I was at a poetry reading, and the woman was trying to support the idea that women are important in history. She mentioned that "behind every good man, is an even greater woman". that wasn't enough for some ULTRA uppity women in the audience. "no...behind that great woman, is another great woman". The message: the men don't matter...we're only interested in the women in the picture.

I thought that was such an extreme, that it immediately produced a sense of "roll your eyes" disgust in me. And I wasn't the only one.

later in the evening, they pulled the same stunt again, repeating their line. People were tired of them.

[Bake]

109. Happily married to a proudly uppity woman

AND the son of a proudly uppity woman to boot!

And I send my shirts to the cleaners, for the record ...

:hi:

Bake

[Justpat]

118. Hello Bake.

:hi:

The uppity women in your family turned out a great person.

[Bake]

119. Hi back atcha!

:hi:

Bake

[BlackVelvet04]

111. I come from a long line of uppity women.....

my great grandmother was Monacan Indian....a MATRIARCHAL tribe. :D

[Justpat]

120. .

A toast to your great grandmother.

:toast:

[Fox Mulder]

112. I'm a man who appreciates uppity women!

[JuniperLea]

114. This uppity woman is with you!

Mr. X and I were just discussing this last night. Seems to me misogyny is far more insidious than racism. Racism is hideous, and it's usually spotted right away. People slip anti-women talk into discussions without so much as a notice, and if you speak up, you are an uppity bitch who is too sensitive. Bovine excrement! We are all equal and we deserve the respect given to everyone else.

Edited to say... someday I'll write an OP about my experience in 1978... when I became pregnant and my boss told me I couldn't keep my job unless I got an abortion... and he offered to pay and drive. Long story short, I was part of a women's study and new employment laws passed to outlaw such behavior. Pro-choice works both ways:)

[xmas74]

115. I'm uppity and proud of it.

Though many call me a mouthy bitch.