What is a Female? Do you really know?

Revised from 12/09 By BettyJean Kling What is a female? A Female is depicted by others everyday all day long all over the world. Does anyone anywhere even know who or what a female is anymore? Does a female even know who she is? Ask her – she will tell you who she is to [...]

Sarah’s not ready for the Oval Office

Everyone is talking about Sarah Palin and wondering if she will run for President. The pundits are frothing at the mouth and the good old boys are falling all over themselves like jackasses. No one in the media or in elected office or thinking about running thinks she has a chance of winning against Barack [...]

Don’t Touch My Junk

Adrianne Knobloch Am sorry, I find no humor in this.  Now a song?  Satire?  Laughing?  Once again, the media and machine defines the talking points and we blindly follow along. Before Thomas Jefferson immortalized the words, “Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,” the rallying cry was “Life, liberty, property.”  And were the words used even [...]

The Weaker Vessel

BettyJean Kling for Myra Spearman The Weaker Vessel Inc. In Coalition with WOMEN a Majority United Organization Myra Spearman – Author/Speaker Myra Spearman, a survivor of domestic violence, lived in an abusive marriage for 18 years and was stalked relentlessly after for 4 years. Now she is spearheading a global effort to help others recognize [...]

Why are women divided over PFA?

Another Rant by BettyJean Kling Ok – I have had it- Enough! What the hell is going on here? I want some answers and I want them now! Damn it every time something comes up to help women get ahead the Right wing jumps up and insists women don’t need it and the left jumps [...]

Scarlet Letters: Label women needlessly

Barbara H/T Pumas and Dragonfly I have been thinking once again what’s it going to take for women to comprehend that we are the majority? Why do we willingly divide into a minority, a minority that prevents us from moving forward with important issues that affect every female on the planet? Over 100 years ago [...]

Vagina-Mirrors

By BettyJean Kling You have all heard of the Vagina Monologues? The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women.  Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina  the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. Every year [...]

Barbara

Barbara So it seems.  With the profound understanding that the storm that rages inside is far more dangerous than the storm outside could ever be and if she is to survive she needs to climb back up to where she began her journey to survive. It began with a Hurricane heading towards Ft. Lauderdale. Locked inside [...]

Epidemic Suicides of Women

Barbara Warning photos in link are horrifying. TMU writers present articles with the intent to End Society’s Ambivalence Toward Violence against Women and Children.     When I began to research this article it was in response to hearing the story of the kidnapping, torture, rape of 16 year old girl in Pakistan who was [...]

It’s Time to Ban the Veil: The Chilling Lesson from the Elizabeth Smart Case

by Phyllis CheslerNewsRealBlog http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/901/ban-the-veil-elizabeth-smart Excerpt: He hid her in plain sight. Her face was on posters plastered all over Utah, her kidnapping had launched one of the greatest manhunts in American history. Nevertheless, Brian Mitchell, the man who kidnapped 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart at knife-point in her bedroom actually got away with it for nine [...]