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Dr Linda's avatar

I have / had been a registered Demorat my entire voting life. Never changing, voting how I wanted.

A few days ago, I decided that the shame of being a registered Demo was too much. I am finally off their roles.

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Karmy's avatar

Good morning C & C! What a glorious day! First day of summer and it’s 43 degrees here in SW Montana and we have the heat on. Oh and they had snow in the mountains overnight. But they keep telling us about global warming. Don’t believe your lying eyes listen to the β€œexperts”! πŸ˜‚ Enjoy this day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad!

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Beckadee's avatar

87 in South AL with a feel of 99 at 10am. I'll still enjoy the day that the Lord has made but inside with the AC. Slightly jealous of your situation now but October will be here soon enough. Thankfully time flies the older you get. Fly time fly!

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God Bless America's avatar

I was down in Bayou La Batre last weekend for some fun mission work… πŸ™βœοΈπŸ₯° Y’all have a different heat down there! πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅

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Beckadee's avatar

Yes- I've heard it referred to as hotter than 7 hells.

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Granny Annie's avatar

Thank you, Beckadee. The "hotter than 7 hells" part of your comment triggered a GOOD memory about my late daughter (it's a long story πŸ˜†) and me. I had a particularly hard day yesterday; my grief was pulling up memories of some of the unhappier, so to speak, times in her difficult life. I asked God why I couldn't get some of the happier memories for a change. Your comment triggered one of those memories, and I sat here and laughed and laughed (instead of crying and crying like yesterday). So, thank you for being God's agent today. He sure does work in mysterious ways! 😊❀️

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh I love this! ❀️ So glad He answered your prayer πŸ™

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Ruth H's avatar

Awww, that made me tear up a bit. I’m glad you received some good memories. God answered your prayer through Beckadee. May your day continue to bring you laughter.

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Beckadee's avatar

Awe that makes me happy. I've never heard that phrase from any southerner. First heard it from a leftist leaning Vancouver dude.

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Granny Annie's avatar

LOL Coastal NC here, and we use it on the regular. It is particularly fitting here in August.

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God Bless America's avatar

Three years ago was our first time down to Bayou La Batre… In June… Heat index was 108Β° while we were running around doing projects for our stateside missions. Some of our number got sick from the heat. It was definitely different… 😱πŸ₯΅

But we absolutely love it down there! Such wonderful, resilient people live down there… Just finished our 19th trip down… πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

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Beckadee's avatar

We connected last year when you said you go down to Bayou La Batre. I don't go there but have friends who do to get fresh seafood and oysters directly off the boats! I recently met one of the city council members who works for Roto Rooter and he was very nice.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I’ve heard some transplanted Michiganders say it gets hot and humid in Michigan as well, and then you have the winters to contend with.

Maybe they’re just trying to make themselves feel better about the move.

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Bandit's avatar

It gets really hot and horribly humid in the Eastern Midwest. Trees are beautiful, provide wonderful shade, and can help cool, but they're also part of the reason for the humidity.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I think if I were able to be any place I wanted now, it would be Montana for the summer, Key West for the winter.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

It’s 84 with 69% humidity right now in MI. It’s gonna be in the 90’s today. You can feel the water in the air. Thankful for ac.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

Today it’s been in the mid 90’s. 😳

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I would never have guessed your summers would be that hot.

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Debra's avatar

Full blown rain on the Oregon Coast. I hear the grass growing!

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Beckadee's avatar

Yep. We are in our afternoon shower phase. I was able to cut about half my yard yesterday with thunder building up all around me. Humidity is crushing when the sun peeks out afterwards. Love me some Tillamook! 30 years ago drove from Portland to the coast and up north circling back and before I could see Tillamook, I could smell it. I love cows! lol

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Lori H's avatar

Beautiful! Did ya get you some cheese curds?! lol Love Tillamock!

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Beckadee's avatar

No, I didn't stop. 30 years ago all I knew was Kraft cheese. haha Besides rednecks from the south don't eat cheese curds. LOL. Pimento cheese now is a whole different story!

And thanks it is mock not mook!

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Lori H's avatar

Auto correct lol πŸ‘πŸΌ

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JW's avatar

We always thought Velveta was a luxury cheese!🀣

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Beckadee's avatar

It wasn’t?lol

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

But with SPAM, now that's a different kind of luxury.

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Beckadee's avatar

Happy to report this redneck has never tasted SPAM. Growing up in the country amongst farmers, ranchers and basicly sharpshooters! the only thing I had from a can was biscuits. That's because my sweet mama didn't do well at baking and daddy made a comment one time. From them on like Jerry Clower said, she made whomp biscuits. https://youtu.be/3syiTtZkfP0?si=IABZIb2Oa7fWHIBq

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Paige Dinsmore's avatar

Pouring here in Beaverton. Hallelujah.

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Lori H's avatar

Awh yes, this Texan loves getting away to the cool mist in Arch Cape, sipping hot coffee and admiring the beautiful expansive beach and the waves crashing on Castle Rock, even when it’s sunny it’s cool!. Sigh Its warm and humid here today - typical 1st day of summer in Dallas.

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Ruth H's avatar

Same here in San Antonio - hot and humid, but a very short rain of 4 minutes, then gone like it never came.

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Lori H's avatar

Oh yes VERY humid, ick!

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Leo's avatar

Lori, Oh yes...plus the abundant Sand Dollars and glorious sunsets!

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Lori H's avatar

Oh yes definitely - have a lovely sea glass jar full of Perfect sand dollars from Arch Cape!! And a framed sunset photo in my family room! We have beautiful sunsets in Texas, but you can’t beat those sunsets over the water!❀️

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

Yessssss

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Emily Terrell's avatar

Same here in the WA Cascades foothills.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I do love the coast but being here on the dryer sunnier side makes me not miss the rain.

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Grass growing so fast here in Oregon, we have to mow twice a day.

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Critical Thinker's avatar

Up here in "snowy Canada", it's ramping up and is going to hit 118F on the humidex by Monday (100F without). SW Montana sounds pretty nice about now!

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Lori H's avatar

WOW!! Had no idea Canada gets that hot?!!!

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Critical Thinker's avatar

Here in the capital region, we get "pure" winters and summers, so we sometimes get -40F in winter and 100F+ just a 4-5 months later in summer (and always get -25F and 90F at the extremes)

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Willing Spirit's avatar

End of October, beginning of November is when we usually see the end of summer in north Florida. Many a furry Halloween costume is worn in misery on Halloween nightπŸ˜–

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Sherry Folk's avatar

We’re hot in Indiana too. I’m jealous of the 45 degrees. I’m not a fan of the hot weather.

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Bandit's avatar

I'm with ya, Sherry. πŸ₯΅ I hate half of Spring, all of Summer, and half of Fall.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

87Β°F here in Central MinnEsota; turning on the AC soon.

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Concerned mom's avatar

Ugghhh, when we did our 6 year penance in MN back in 2000, we'd leave our windows open during the summer and our neighbors thought we were bonkers! We'd just say, "from CA" and smile!

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

sun is down, 9:45pm, temp = 86 still-- up to 92 today.

AC is ON, but wife and I are out on the deck anyway. beautiful sunny day with plenty of wind makes it "easy".

It has to threaten over 90F for us to put on the AC, otherwise, windows all open-- country, not the big city.

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Melissa Bolger's avatar

I also live in South Alabama. October cannot get here soon enough.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Chilly here too in Central Oregon, turned on the heat yesterday. But darn it, going to a huge Mexican wedding today and it’s supposed to rain today. The poor bride. But it’s mostly indoors, I was thinking about pictures actually. But lots of mariachi and later banda!! A huge daylong family celebration! We’ll be in the minority and feel honored to be part of the festivities!

Very conservative roles, no question about masculinity in this group!

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Cool in Eastern Oregon too! The wedding sounds lovely! As a Catholic I definitely see the Hispanic culture as being traditional in the roles of men and women. Few girly men or She-Males.

I escaped third wave feminism in my 40s. Much happier now.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Where in Eastern Oregon?

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

LaGrande

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Karen Bandy's avatar

We haven’t been over that way for years, lots of beauty around there.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Yes, very few. We’ve seen a few gay males, but not many. It’s definitely frowned upon from what I’ve seen but it doesn’t matter when hiring good employees.

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JW's avatar
Jun 22Edited

Supposedly rain on your wedding day means luck to the couple so, there is a bright side.

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Karmy's avatar

Haha. Great minds think alike!

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Karmy's avatar

It’s supposed to be good luck if it rains on your wedding day. I hope the wedding was lovely.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Sounds like fun!! Enjoy!

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Karen Bandy's avatar

We went to her quinceaΓ±era years ago. Have been to more since but I think this is only our second wedding.

They are the longtime workers at our favorite restaurant, one is now a part owner!

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Sweats and socks in Idaho. Love it!

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nancylee's avatar

sweats here in texas but not the kind you're talking about

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RunningLogic's avatar

πŸ˜†

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Barbara's avatar

Lol! The humidity in Texas is no joke! One step outside and you're drenched!

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Oh man, my white hair would be a curly fuzzy mess. I’d look like those old ladies who get too many perms.

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Lori H's avatar

πŸ€£πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‡¨πŸ‡±

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Kamila's avatar

🀣

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Warm and sunny day here in the Black Hills, but the temps will drop to the 60’s in the next few days.

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Beckadee's avatar

I was watching a storm channel late last night of those storms pushing thru North Dakota. Those derechos are something else. Our problem is by August the nighttime temp is roughly 10 degrees lower than the daytime. It could be 100 every day and I wouldn't care if only the temps would drop into the 60's at night. But no, that's not how it works

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Jeff S's avatar

Same weather here in EA WA.

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Patti's avatar

On the east side and we’ve got 55 degrees and overcast. Possible rain. Yep cherry season!

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Lori H's avatar

Ah cherry season - brings back memories of cherry stained bare feet. Loved making those pies with my grandmother!

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JW's avatar

We use to have cherry pit spitting contests as kids. Fun times.

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shayne's avatar

My chickens have been panting like dogs for four days now. They really don't appreciate being hosed down, but needs must!

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WIMomof3's avatar

93 and humid in NE Wisconsin. I’ve refilled my birdbath multiple times already ☺️

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shayne's avatar

Is this unusual for NE Wisconsin or do you normally see these temps? I'm in Kansas so it's pretty normal for here.

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WIMomof3's avatar

We do see the occasional 90Β°+ day- usually not this early in the summer, but then there also have been summers where I only turned on the air-conditioning a handful of times. So the weather’s all over the place πŸ€ͺ we are also lucky with all the lakes!

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shayne's avatar

"we are also lucky with all the lakes!" Absolutely :)

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Concerned mom's avatar

No air conditioned coops? JK! I had a friend who built their cat a mini suite with A/C no less! :)

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shayne's avatar

Lucky cat! No air conditioning. But do have a heater in winter.

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John A George's avatar

Global warming/Climate change is the smokescreen, geoengineering is the fire. I'm happy you're happy today, sadly the information at https://geoengineeringwatch.org/ , if you take the time to understand it, may tamper your joy.

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whiskeys's avatar

They're lying. I'm in Canada and had to turn the heat on at least a dozen times last month. Yet the news says it was the hottest May ever.

I'm aure June will follow - it's 47 degrees today.

How stupid do they think we are?

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

47 degrees Celsius IS hot! Isn't Kanuckia on the metric system? ; )

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John of Oregon Fame's avatar

I love SW Montana. Grew up in Butte and Hamilton. Was there just a month ago. I'm not sure how, maybe professional education, I ended up in Oregon. That's turning out to be a serious problem.

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Timothy G McKenna's avatar

"Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus, exultemus et laetemur in ea"

My Dad's favorite Psalm and I recited it at his 80th birthday. Great exultation

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Kamila's avatar

53 here in glorious Lincoln County MT(northwest) where my husband and I are living in a one room plywood cabin while we build our home. No electricity or running water but living our dream. At 72, he’s currently out running the excavator while I work on another project. Global warming? My Buddy heater is my friend! After growing up in NC, this is a blessing πŸ™

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Will you be in by winter? I’m getting visions of the Laura Ingles books! πŸ˜† I admire your strength!

Gorgeous country up there!

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Annie's avatar

Whatever your weather, remember climate change, gardening, paddle boarding, exercise and many other things can cause you to suddenly and unexpectedly expire. Oh. Joy too can cause that. πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‚

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Tom's avatar

Don't forget the real killer, Daylight Savings Time.

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Beckadee's avatar

True!! πŸ˜‚

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Erin Montgomery's avatar

We have a heat wave in Helena- I woke to 51.

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Karmy's avatar

Erin are you in CORAC?

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Karmy's avatar

There is an Erin in Helena who is in CORAC. So thought you might be that Erin. https://corac.co/

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Erin Montgomery's avatar

I’ll check it out. Thank you.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I’m in Florida. Global warming is real. πŸ₯΅πŸ€£πŸ₯΅πŸ€£πŸ₯΅

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Julie's avatar

In the summer time at least!πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

My hubs is making noises about moving there. I think he wants to kill me. 🀨

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Nope, this is our regular hot, humid, sticky weather. ENJOY!

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

We left a little while ago, on our way back to more hot, humid, sticky weather inland in Oklahoma! Just no ocean to marvel at!

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

The ocean makes a huge difference... it has a view that is always beautiful and those ocean breezes can't be beat! North Central Florida, less than 90 min to either coast is hot as the hinges of hades most of the time until later in October... I'd rather be at the beach!

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Free in Florida's avatar

Northwest Florida here and you’re right. The Gulf of America does help with the heat. It’s usually okay here by the mid to end of September! 🦩

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Donna in MO's avatar

24/7 heatwave hysteria here in MO. It's summer. It gets hot here. And yet the talking heads have to tell us to drink water and avoid strenuous activities.....But I am rejoicing and glad we have A/C!

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RunningLogic's avatar

It’s crazy how it’s apparently necessary to remind people of things that are just good common sense! πŸ˜•πŸ™„

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Tio Nico's avatar

Hah.. I grew up in So California back in high school days Typical summer highs were around 100f. i'd still hop on my road bike (push bike, not motorbike) and go out for a hundred mile fun ride. Later on I met up with a bunch of geriatric cyclists in their late 60's and on, up in the Central Valley (Visalia area) We greyhairs would take off in the late morning and go knock off 50 to 75 miles through the afternoon. Rolling average speeds in the high tens, maybe low twenties.

Heat? What's THAT???? Hydration becomes so natural no one even thinks about it. Jus do it. Never had any issues.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Well the A/C does probably make us soft. I remember going to 2 week GS camp in my tween/early teen years. The first couple of days seemed miserable but after you acclimate it's not as bad. My son spent 5 summers as a camp counselor and said the same, although he taught boating and canoeing so was in the water all day.

Still keeping my A/C on, though...and pushing my gardening time to early AM or evenings.

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FTL's avatar

92 degrees in Middle GA!!! πŸ”₯

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JW's avatar

N GA has been miserable. At least lots of cloud cover is a bit better. Ugh.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh here we’re at the start of a week long heat wave πŸ₯΅ In the low 90s every day with a heat index around 100. Glad that it doesn’t usually last more than that here before we go back to more normal temps.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Interesting take:

Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux

The entire purpose of the modern mirage economy is to move as much money as inhumanly possible from men – who tend to be builders and savers – to women, who tend to be spenders and consumers.

This is done through hiring mandates, divorce, alimony, child support, student loans, and all other kinds of statist frippery.

Go to any mall, and count how many stores exist to serve men.

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Annie's avatar

I am still confused. I thought the libbies couldn't define what a "woman" is. And based on their support for boys in girls sports, the libbies are trying to erase women as well. Trannies rule for them. As soon as you refer to men as "cis" - there's your problem. Also saying David Hogg is representative of a real man is debatable too.

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Ruth H's avatar

Agree about David Hogg. Hard to see he had a man card to destroy, just a whiny little wannabe. Even the soy boys get destroyed by the liberal Dems now. Their spiral of doom is like a tornado obliterating anyone who dares to speak against their narrow minded agenda.

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CMCM's avatar

Agree about Hogg....he looks/acts/talks like such a "girlie man". Ugh!

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JBell's avatar

I am not sure that is universal.... my husband is the biggest shopper/consumer that I have ever seen!

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Kathy's avatar

That’s true. With my parents, my father wanted to spend all his money on fancy vacations. My mother was the one who scrimped and saved. This pattern has tended to follow me in my own relationships as well. I have always been the one trying to be careful with money.

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Temcol's avatar

Yep they buy bigger and more expensive toys. I hate shopping and go in and get what I need and get out as quickly as possible. My husband goes to Walmart daily. It is a sport to him. I have not been in a Walmart in years. We seem to have swapped traditional traits.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Same. I live like I don’t have a dime

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yeah it’s not true in my case but I know plenty of couples where the man is the spender and generally on high ticket items too!

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Tom's avatar

When you really need 4 wheel drive, nothing else will do.

Except maybe a tracked vehicle.

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Here We Are's avatar

πŸ˜‚

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Karmy's avatar

Hold my beer! My husband installed a train horn on his diesel truck! He loves to use it when we see a moving train or there are deer on the road.

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

I want one on my little car!

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Annie's avatar

Mine too. He can clear out the chocolate and cookie aisle. πŸ˜‚

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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Mine too, although he wouldn’t waste his time at a mall, and was appalled when i he heard me telling friends how much he liked to shopβ€”afraid they might THINK he shaped at a mall!

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Not Me's avatar

Ditto

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I was in the jewelry biz, mostly custom design but I had things in the showcase to sell too. Couples would come in and men would want to buy their wife something and often women would be the one to nix the sale. I would get so frustrated but then someone wiser than me said women often had better knowledge of their finances, they knew if they could afford it or not. So many dynamics at play, women feel they don’t deserve it, men want to treat them, feel like the big shot. People are strange for sure.

I finally learned to β€˜not spend other people’s money’. It works all ways, don’t push them to spend, or overspend, or underspend!

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Always exceptions

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Debra's avatar

A month after my husband died in Sept 2022 I went out and bought a new refrigerator to replace the one that had been clinking, clunking and buzzing for for at least 3 years before he passed. I am thankful for the savings account we both contributed too for 40 years.

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Annie's avatar

Sorry for your loss. πŸ˜”

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Annette kimball's avatar

My mother-in-law put a large front porch on her home , not too long after her spouse passed! Said she ALWAYS wanted one! Bless her heart!

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Rick Olivier's avatar

Not only stores. Also social media (except substack). It's filled with Lady Garbageβ„’ that doesn't interest any normal man in the least. Like there's an invisible monster loose who will prop up any "movement" to un-man us. Well, fk that. I'll be a man till I die. Period.

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RunningLogic's avatar

It’s funny to me that you ended your post with β€œperiod” πŸ˜¬πŸ˜†

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Rick Olivier's avatar

And a pair of β€œdeez here” not men-zeez 😎

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Dr Linda's avatar

I was thinking the same

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alongername's avatar

Freudian slip ? πŸ˜‚

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JCrutcher's avatar

Lol

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JW's avatar

πŸ˜…πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

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Porge's avatar

πŸ˜† lol

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Annie's avatar

Tampon Tim comes to mind. 😝

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Here We Are's avatar

Lol, well, an exception here. My husband is the one always on social media. I deleted FB, and am rarely on social media. And he is a real dude.

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Mike's avatar

I threw up a bit in my mouth several times while reading this. I am sooo glad that I am through with the "relationship" dance. I am a testosterone filled Boomer and my estrogen filed bride of 42 years (both a second marriage!). Both my wife and I and I ran several successful businesses while raising our 5 (4 female girls and 1 Masculine boy), unheard of these days. All our kids are successful with kids and businesses of their own. I have to use the expression 'come on man!! I might recommend in my ancient dating ritual, try developing a relationship FACE TO FACE without your "F"ing phone. It's no wonder "Heads, she’s empowered. Tails, he’s inadequate"., when you can't see each other. Carry on, this is just another mindless rant from an old guy. PS it worked for me!!

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Lori's avatar

I love rants from old guys! Agree with you on all this Mike! 42 years, congrats! You found your beloved.

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JW's avatar

They even made a company Old Guys Rule! Something to it.

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Lori's avatar

I like it!

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Cousin Clem's avatar

Well, that's a sexist point of view. I know many women who are frugal savers and I know men who piss away their money and live off their credit cards. I think there are more stores serving women because women do tend to like fashion but that also seems to be changing. But in general, what do men wear? Jeans or suits. More variety for women.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

But there's:

hiring mandates, divorce, alimony, child support, student loans... these are all tilted toward wamens.

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Susanna Bythesea's avatar

That is a very interesting observation by Molyneux. Some of the nature of being spenders, I think, is tied to our role as nurturers - I know in my home I am the β€œspender” for all household goods, groceries, food, any family events we do, etc, while my husband is the provider (β€œbuilder”) who makes sure our family economy can function. Remove marriage from the family economy and suddenly the balance (husband and wife working in and out of the home, toward the common good of the family, community and country) is destroyed and the remaining separate elements become unstable and vulnerable to exploitation by a self-centered, consumerist society (and Big Everything - Food, Pharma, Fashion, Medicine, etc etc).

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Totally agree here. I always shop with my husband for his business and dress clothes, and we’ve found a couple of wonderful men’s boutique shops that sell the nicest casual dressy, business casual, and formal dress clothes ever. Not so easy to find, depending on where you live. We have to travel a bit. I always ask if they could open a women’s store akin to what they offer the men, and they say no, but the women are always asking! Classy clothing, with tailoring available. I would love to have such a personalized store, that’s not the big, massed produced products department one.

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deborah7isheaven's avatar

Same!! Bring back clothes made to fit!! lol

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Brilliant analysis! I have seen the feminization of education particularly. Yes there are few males who find shopping an enjoyable pastime. Even when I was a hard charging career woman my professional friends and I would spend hours shopping followed by lunch. Men not so much πŸ˜‚.

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Tom's avatar

Men shop a lot. Go to a good gun show sometime . . .

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Shop a lot? No they shop for a specific item. A gun show might provide an opportunity to check out a number of alternatives but gun shows aren’t always happening. Nordstrom’s is.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

That's a very thought-provoking comment --thank you BFM.

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CStone's avatar

Exactly.

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Peter's avatar

Brookstone only lasted a short time

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DRK's avatar

Interesting... This has not been my observation. Most of the women in close and extended family were the savers & planners & builders, not just of their families, but of their families' futures (tangible things, as well) - while their husbands were often the spenders. Many among our friends and aquaintences, too.

Apparently, this was nothing new.

"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

...

She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands.

She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

...

She considers a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.

She perceives that her merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night.

She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. (A color only the rich wore.)

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She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles unto the merchant.

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come."

-Proverbs 31

Manufacturing, real estate, agriculture, marketing... How long B.C.?

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Carol M.'s avatar

That happened to me and my Mom one Friday afternoon, in the 1990’s, while waiting for my daughter’s Kindergarten class. We listened to Rush L. daily and we looked at each other with the old β€œaha!” moment. It was easier for me; she had to overcome hearing her departed Father’s voice: you are Irish, you are Catholic, and you are a Democrat! We went to Voter Registration the following week.😎

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Jayhawk Gal's avatar

It’s been 4 years since Rush died. I listened to him almost every day for 20 years whether living in Kansas or Germany (AFN radio) he was a constant in my life. I still catch myself wondering several times a week what Rush would have said on his show about this crazy world if he were still alive. He’s the only person who I didn’t know personally but truly miss him like I did. See you on the other side of heaven, Rush! I hope Jesus lets you run the radio station.

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

I miss him too, and I also frequently wonder what his take would be on a current event. He was truly the brightest, most entertaining political analyst ever. But I actually thought just the other day that Jeff is starting to take his place.

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Ruth H's avatar

Jeff is definitely filling the void of not having Rush to interpret the news. I always save C&C to read when I can fully take in the article and the comments. Absolutely my favorite in Substack, with Don Surber to follow.

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MARY BORAWSKI's avatar

I also loved RL. I miss his commentary as well

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Susan Stephens's avatar

I call Jeff the β€œRush Limbaugh of Substack.”

He truly is!

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Karmy's avatar

I heard his bumper song this morning on the radio as we were driving to church and I said the same to my husband. Rush would have loved this period in time with Trump. He was definitely one of a kind! May he rest in peace.

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Linda A's avatar

Maybe time for The Jeff Childer’s Show? I’d listen!

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Free in Florida's avatar

I miss Rush and remember exactly where I was the first time I heard him! I thought at the time - Wow! This guy is saying what I believe!

I’ve always voted Republican. It always seemed common sense to me. But brava to you for also being logical!

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Yes, grew up with parents who always had unquestioning support for FDR. In fact, my mom used to tell me as a child she kept hoping he’d show up for dinner. But I think both mom and dad wouldn’t recognize the party now.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Long live "Non-affiliated," as my state calls it! :) My long-ago home state proudly called it "Independent." (State motto: "Live Free or Die")

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alongername's avatar

"Live free or die " has been ingrained in my DNA , it seems . Of course, growing up .anyone who tries to assert that feeling is stamped on for being "against authority" .

Well, I did compromise a bit on this mantra .......... Instead of dying I chose to go half way around the world to a freer environment. Americans love to think that it is the land of the free ...... but the peer pressure, and the govt. subtle and not so subtle ways they use to coerce the population , are a master class in control.

Covid brought it brazenly out into the open .

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Paula Weiss's avatar

So where did you go? Curious as to where the freer places were at the time.

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alongername's avatar

Thailand . I moved here in 1988 . It really was paradise then : simple, friendly, non aggresive people. Lots of scenery.... mountains in the North, Oceans in the South . An "undeveloped" country with good infrastucture and though poor .... not the terrible poverty in many 3rd world countries.

Tourism today has ruined some areas.... but its a large country and if not in the tourist areas the people remain very nice, and still much more to my liking than the westerners who growl and argue . (please don't send too many people here haha)

and.... C&C is just a click away

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Mike's avatar

WOW! Sounds like a dozen midwestern states. Those damn _________ fill the blank are moving in ruining our scenery etc. "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide..."

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CStone's avatar

That’s called β€˜sitting on the fence’ in the mushy middle/swamp area.

Btw, in the battle between good and evil, guess who owns the fence? : satan

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Granite State! Home of my forebears.

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Kathy's avatar

I too used to vote Democrat. The reason that I haven’t changed my affiliation so that I can keep my eye on them. For example, they sent out information on how to keep medical freedom people off of our hospital board, inadvertently showing me which medical freedom people I wanted to vote for!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh good point!

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Shelle's avatar

Your comment made me think. How can we get more medical freedom people on hospital boards when so long such boards have been dominated by sold out pharma-aligned people who lost all perspective on what is good for everyday patients? It would be amazing if those hospital boards were chock full of MAGA people!

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Stacy's avatar

Congratulations, good Doctor!! πŸ₯³

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RunningLogic's avatar

Congrats Dr Linda!!

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A.M.'s avatar

You hit your tipping point. It's a large club.

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Jeff S's avatar

Have a drink, on me.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Welcome over from the dark side, Doc.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I’ve been there for decades. I just removed the label. : )

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Donald Chesler's avatar

I am aware of many registered Democrats who haven't voted democrat in years. I tell them that their staying registered simply indicates that they are ok with the direction the democrat party is headed. The legitimize the craziness. Personally, I'm ok with that.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

I stayed a registered Democrat (& voted Republican) for years, just to vote any pro Life Democrat on the ticket. When then Senator Casey came out immediately for the Kenyan, I changed my registration the next morning: Casey was obviously lying.

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Annie's avatar

Good riddance to Casey.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I just could stand it anymore. : )

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Barbls's avatar

Welcome aboard!

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Lori's avatar

You can always register as an Independent Dr. Linda!

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Dr Linda's avatar

I took care of it. Interesting Missouri doesn’t offer independent but rather unaffiliated

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Quality BS Detector's avatar

I don't think "independent" or "unaffiliated" work, and not for political reasons (it doesn't work for them, either) but for cultural reasons.

You have to stand for something.

You have to stand for something.

The "unaffiliated" time stamp gives you wiggle room with your colleagues, so they can accept it as a kind of soft protest against the Dems (sort of an abstention, but they will assume you'll vote the right way in the general elections). It's kind of a cop-out.

Trust me, it's perfectly okay to say, "I'm a Republican. I'm not four-square with everything every Republican says or does, but that's okay. I'm for most of their program and ideas and against almost everything the Democrats dish up: endless war, medical tyranny, political tyranny, religious tyranny, grand theft climate change, destruction of children in their school days, mostly forced genital mutilation, and their general cult of death from conception to assisted suicide.

For decades the Democrats have been the party of the self-styled smarties, the self-identified cool kids, but really it's been the party of hate: hate rural America, hate traditional America and values, and now Two Minutes Hate for Donald Trump each and every morning. And now Two Minutes Hate for anyone who doesn't hate enough.

To be a Democrat in good standing you've got to really be able to hate.

Hate is corrosive and that's all the Democrats have now, so I can't stay, not even for a minute. If that means we can't be friends, then I'm good with that."

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

I agree in that since I registered as an Independent, I can't vote in the D primaries, which present voters with the worst options imaginable, such as MAMDANI in NYC.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Same in PA...and I cannot vote in the primaries.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

As it should be; blocks the opportunity for Democrats to register as independents and vote against the strongest Republican to sabotage them

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Double Mc's avatar

SC has open primaries. That's why we can't get rid of Lindsay Graham.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Ugh.

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Beckadee's avatar

I'm seeing known libs in my neighborhood with yard signs for the R candidate that is trailing in the leadup to Aug primary for mayor. Don't think it will work but interesting to note.

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Where I am, if I want to vote in a primary, I can show up at the polling place, register with my chosen candidate's party, vote for him or her, then unregister on my way out ~ all in ten minutes or so. Easy-peasy.

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M. Patrick McCrary's avatar

Where's that-are you actually in Wonderland Alice?

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Aren't we *all* there now? Not sure whether we got here through the looking-glass or down a rabbit hole, but the terrain is very, very Lewis Carroll. The two states I mentioned are New Hampshire and Colorado.

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Beckadee's avatar

that's not good. Do ya'll have rank choice voting like NY and other goofy states?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Not yet...but I am totally confused what it even entails.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Ranked Choice is used in Alaska, and is another way to cheat, imo. That's how RINO Murkowski stays in.

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Beckadee's avatar

pay attention to the NY primary and you will see

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Dr Linda's avatar

Yeah, that’s why I stayed registered in one of the 2 parties. I finally figured out that it didn’t really matter.

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Lori's avatar

Unaffiliated works:}

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Debra Jackson's avatar

May I offer something to consider when registering as independent or unaffiliated? In many states, those registered as such cannot vote for a party affiliated candidate in the primary -- which is VITAL when choosing who goes forward to the general election. Something to consider and research in your state.

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Lori's avatar

Yup, know this and ty for posting for others.

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MarilynJo's avatar

Yes and what people also need to realize is that to vote for down ballot local county GOP central committee members one has to be a republican. These local committee seats are very important and influential for keeping and getting good people otherwise the RINOs take over. I’ve witnessed it first hand in my county in California where America first won majority in the last election. The nonaffiliated or independent voters are essentially impotent.

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Carol Anne's avatar

I agree with you Lori. That’s what I did a few months ago. Some of the whack-job back stabbing β€œrepublicans” make me sick. And all the Demorats p!ss me off. My political donations are made on a case-by-case basis.

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Janet's avatar

Illinois. I can request whichever primary ballot I want. And vote in general anyway I wish. No party registration but local party organizers stop by if you have made contact.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

I appreciate how you left out the "c" in Demorat.

Congratulations Doc, you've come over from the death from the dark side.

I really mean Congratulations. God bless you.

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Debra's avatar

Welcome to the world of sanity, common sense and wisdom Linda! While the RINO party is almost as bad as the Dems the Conservative population is under the the political title of Republican for the most part. If the voting rules ever got balanced I would probably be an Independent just as I am a non-denominational Christian moving from Methodist to Catholic to non-denominational.

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shayne's avatar

Bravo Dr. Linda.

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Susan Viscuso's avatar

Feminism was pushed by the Rockefeller’s- Part of the plan to break down the nuclear family and get more tax money. devalue, motherhood and stay home moms. It worked against women in many ways. So many are more unhappy than ever. God’s design was for women and men to be one unit. We need each other.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

https://jwa.org/feminism There's many who want to convince mothers to leave their families and homes ("I ain't no servant for a man") to go work in an office... for a man.

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Jeff S's avatar

Hahaha.

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Robin Esau's avatar

For real...oh, the irony!

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alongername's avatar

"I'd love to go ......... but my wife would kill me "

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Annie's avatar

Or worse, a AWFL!

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Fun and Prophet's avatar

If she's lucky...

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JBell's avatar

Right! The worst bosses I've ever had were women!

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S.P.H.'s avatar

I hear that frequently, JBell. From women.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

True. My mother taught me that as soon as I understood English. "Women are petty," she said. "Men talk about ideas, while women talk about other women." Cynical, but it did sink in and it's very true that (with a few exceptions I won't get into), men are much better bosses than women.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

UGH!!!

Now it makes sense ….why Jews (at least here - the women) vote Democrat.

JWA’s work, at its core, is multigenerational and intersectional. We believe that crafting a more diverse narrative helps create a yricher, more complete present and future. JWA intentionally makes space for people of all Jewish traditions and identities, including Jews of Color, LGBTQ+ Jews, Jews with disabilities, and Jews by choice.

Today, JWA is the world’s largest collection of information on Jewish women. Each year, millions of people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, from more than 230 countries, engage with and rely on JWA’s resources. JWA hosts public programs; trains the thought leaders of tomorrow through the Rising Voices Fellowship; sparks conversation with its blog, podcast, and social media presence; and is a leading voice in feminist and Jewish spheres.

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Susan Seas's avatar

I always think of the (70’s) commercial … I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan … I swear I knew it was propaganda then. I have always said you can’t β€œDo it all” Well!

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MeriBear's avatar

And yet, reading Reddit, there are still women trying in vain, to do it all. I swore I didn’t want to be like my mother, who was bitter and angry and unhappy as a SAHM. While I am none of those things, I made other choices based on the culture of the day that I now regret, despite a very satisfying legal career I pursued after divorcing my kids’ father 40 years ago. I hope the pendulum continues to swing away from the Progressive Fever Dream, for my grandchildren’s sake. There is still hope for the younger ones.

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Emily Terrell's avatar

My mom and sister are feminists. My sister is the exact model as the protagonist of the article. Utterly miserable. My mom married a patsy. Both think I’m a relic of nastier times because I’ve been happily married for 35 years and tend conservative. My son and his fiancΓ© voted Trump. Their main goal in life is for him to support her as a SAHM. It’s an unannounced, organic cultural backlash.

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Annie's avatar

Amen. I pray for our young people. πŸ™

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Kate Hepburn - the quintessential progressive female and renowned actress, said the very same thing to Barbara Walters during an interview when Kate was in her 70's.

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william howard's avatar

Meanwhile 80% of prison inmates are fatherless men - wouldn’t AWFLs think safety is important

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I remember Chuck Colson (who accepted Christ as his Lord & Savior while in prison for his Watergate involvement) stating that when he witnessed to male prisoners and prayed the "Disciples' Prayer" with them....they wanted to know what a "Father" is and does. They didn't HAVE a human "father" and certainly couldn't understand a "heavenly" one! Sad, sad, sad!!

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Annie's avatar

You are giving AWFLs too much credit. I am surrounded by them and they are vile. It's all about them and they are always right and more evolved than you.

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Bones's avatar

My sister is a nurse practitioner in corrections. She says she has an easy time managing the men, but the women tend to be wicked and wild.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Reading her biography as I write this.

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

What did Hepburn say exactly?

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

To paraphrase (because I don't have the article in front of me) she said, "A woman cannot 'have it all' - something will suffer--either her family (or personal life) or her career life.

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Leo's avatar

Is the implication then, that while a woman can't, a man can "have it all"?

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

No Leo, the implication is that neither can have it all without LOVING the other, putting the other above themself. Im surprised you dont know that? Are you a beta male?

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Leo's avatar

LOL - I'm surprised you assumed what I do/do not know.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Im curious why you didn't just come out and say what you know or don't know. I'm still thinking beta male until you can actually take a position.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Perhaps Leo is a lion - and prefers to think of himself in a "kingly" manner (now I'm being a bit snarky).

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

More like a kitty cat if you know what I mean Sharon.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Wow!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Kate was gay. Loved her, but she was gay.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I had read several articles that she was actually "bi" as was Spencer Tracy! Hollywood is filled with moral depravity and deceit. We'd be better off ignoring most of 'cinema darlings' and their antics.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

I was in the theatre for a short time. Most of those in it certainly a bit different. I guess me included. But not to the level of some of the freaks.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I had a theatre performer once tell me that he was an 'actor' because real life doesn't give you a "script" to follow---makes sense, doesn't it, Alan!

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Jpeach's avatar

AWFL meet A.I. Male in Meta World. Leave real men to real women.

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Cindi's avatar

Yeah but she also β€œnever never never let you forget you’re a man” which in the parlance of modern β€œfeminist” harpies, never let you forget you’re BAD because you’re a man

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RunningLogic's avatar

I took that more as she could still be a woman and do feminine things/be sexy even if she was working. After all it was an ad for perfume.

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Cindi's avatar

Sure, but she wasn’t saying she could bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and also didn’t need a man ☺️

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Me too. I had a come to Jesus moment shortly after the birth of my second child. At the end of my days would it be easier to explain why I was not a goid mother, or, why I was not a (financially) successful lawyer? It was a no-brainer.

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Justin's avatar

I'm kinda hungry and could use some bacon right about now.

MMmmmmmm... BAAACON - Homer Simpson

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Guy White's avatar

Rush Limbaugh’s Undeniable Truth About Life #24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

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alongername's avatar

But now unattractive women can "identify" as an attractive woman. hahaha

Even make themselves uglier with the hair and nose rings.... etc . Not to mention being grossly overweight . oh boy !

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Mark D.'s avatar

And blue hair

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alongername's avatar

was gonna say that ........ but didn't want to be called racist ! LOL

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Crash Pile's avatar

And those ghastly ink markings all over their otherwise beautiful skin

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Clara Strom's avatar

This is one of the things I don’t say out loud. Thank you.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‰

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Kinda snarky comment but typical "Rushism". Never appreciated his radio program - but millions surely did!

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Ted's avatar

The Rockefeller's are behind so much of the evil in this world now. They started it and stirred it all up in the 60's. NGO's, WEF, Climate Change, etc ... you can damn near trace it all back to them and a handful of other elite rich families.

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John A George's avatar

You hit the nail on the head. They have used their vast wealth to destroy everything around us that is good. The number of anti-American NGOs they fund is frightening. Our medical system is just one example of their tampering: https://hannenabintuherland.com/usa/john-rockefeller-how-he-took-control-over-modern-medicine/

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Bones's avatar

All Satan’s best students

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Donna in MO's avatar

I bought it growing up in the 70's hook line and sinker. But having kids changed all that. Boys eat their peanut butter sandwiches into the shape of a gun. When my daughter wanted my son to play barbies with her, he cried out 'tornado' and trashed the barbie house. My daughter was tomboy-~ish, loved climbing trees, playing in mud and wearing frilly dresses. Boys and girls ARE different. Trying to be a career woman and mom was exhausting and unsatisfying. I jumped off the train for lower ambitions and cooking dinner at home at night. Hubby would do it but he sucked at cooking, frankly. Oh it took some compromising and re-defining who does what and when all the arm wrestling was over we found that golden middle between tradwife and femi-nazi (Rush Limbaugh term) worked for us. And we had better dinners than chips and salsa and frozen burritos, lol.

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Debra's avatar

Ditto! We also added in that we were not going to say everything we think! We did that for 40 years and were happy the majority of that time! Widowhood has been a big adjustment for me because now I say everything I think here on C&C and Facebook.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Similar situation here. I knew I would be bad at working full time and trying to be a mother, and also really didn’t want to put my kids in daycare. So I worked part time with limited hours, to use my degree and skills and earned a little extra money for us although it was a pittance compared to what my husband earned. I have no regrets and feel blessed that I was able to do both to some extent. Having home-cooked dinners and me being present to take care of homework (now homeschool), go to activities and keep the house in order were more important to me than a lot of extra money or a full blown career. My husband will pitch in where necessary and when I need extra time for work he is always willing to do whatever is necessary.

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Kenpowoman's avatar

That's exactly what happened to me -- I was a professional in the high-tech world and a feminist... then I met the man who became my husband and we had a son. He was 13 months old when he took a bite out of a saltine cracker and pointed it and made "pew pew" noises... all without ever having been exposed to anything resembling a gun yet. I looked at my husband and said, "I give up," and I never looked back.

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Tim's avatar

I was in Kindergarten when The Monkees debuted on TV. I’m pretty sure I chewed my toast into the general shape of a Gretsch. I do recall the nun who taught me in catechism being confused when I kept drawing Christ and the disciples with giant Afro haircuts and guitars.

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JW's avatar

So funny. Kids change your perspective on absolutely everything. Im betting a good percentage of the right wingers are not parents or at least hands on parents.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Right wingers or left wingers?

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Annie's avatar

These articles are coming out as the first crop of feminists are realizing they are over 40 with no kids and with careers that cannot make up for having a loving marriage and children. My 27 yr old daughter sees it. I told her if she's going to choose liberalism and secularism, she will be empty of the best life experiences. She's slowly choosing a God centered life. We are quietly encouraging her. I pray for all our young people.

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CMCM's avatar

My daughter is 55 and has 3 adult children now. She has quite a few high school friends who went the career-not-marriage route because they got caught up in the earlier arguments of "you can't have it all", so they chose career and a party life with few attachments. Now in their mid 50's, they find themselves alone and childless, pining for a partner and yes, maybe even a husband, and guess what.....men aren't interested in them at this point. My daughter thinks the overall realization of where their choices have led them has finally hit home. It's mostly too late to remedy for this group of women.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

And that's tragic for these women and for the society that is devoid of the children they could have had.

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Jake's avatar

It's the Christian culture that is the most satisfying. I see lots of happy contented people at church every Sunday..

My wife stayed home. I worked two jobs. We have two wonderful daughters and 8 exceptional grandchildren. I'm as happy as a puppy with two peters.

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Deb's avatar

Liberal mandates have done their dead-level best to destroy the nuclear family! By offering money to mothers when there are no fathers are in the home played a large part in where our culture is today!!! Pure evil!!!! God designed the family for a purpose - to procreate, live an abundant life glorifying Him, and enjoy life!

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Jake's avatar

amen sister.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Jeff Childers, what an amazing post today. Wow, it was a walk-off grand slam homer in the 7th game of the World Series.

Ladies, Jeff is right, 100% right... and everyone knows it.

Ladies, we men also know inherently that leadership in a relationship starts, and ends, with love and that LOVE is a 2 way street. If a man does not lead with love, he does not deserve you.

For those men, and women, who want to find real love with each other, start by reading "The Five Love Languages" by Chapman and begin to love each other in the way(s) that each needs to be loved and then will return love in abundance. It's the very best primer on love between a man and a woman which I have ever read.

One other thing Ladies, STAY IN SHAPE, ditch the blue hair, the nose rings, and the tattoos (if God wanted us to graffiti our bodies, he would have given them to us.) Our bodies are beautiful as He created them.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Excellent points and yes, tattoos should be shunned and seen as negatives, not as art expression.

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S.P.H.'s avatar

I'm seeing a renewed 'blame the Rockefellers' movement throughout comments in my limited SM universe, not sure why but I can guess.

I made a comment many years ago to a co-worker, at a homeschooling seminar, that convincing women they needed their independence and to join the workplace, was the dirtiest trick ever played on women, men and the family. And doubled income tax to government.

It wasn't the Rockefellers, it was satan, and still is. Destroy the family and destroy the society. How did the one girl child idea work out for China?

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Lynne Morris's avatar

And maybe more importantly, certainly for the species, the children need a two parent family. And I think one of the oft overlooked benefits from a home with a mother and father is that the children bear witness to the female/male dynamic.

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Jake's avatar

A youth pastor once told us that girls need loving fathers. Boys need loving mothers. If they don't get it growing up they'll find it in places that sometimes are not good. I always tried to show my girls that I loved them unconditionally. The youth pastor was right.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I think that is correct.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

re: "by vanishing, men are exercising agency."

Yes.

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Justin's avatar

There was a very good Diary of a CEO podcast the other day about feminism. You're gonna see the one who really embraces the wrong version of feminism, and the other two have their head screwed on straight(er) and advocating more for complementary (not competing) roles for men and women, and having a more traditional family structure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHuZ_8VYCWA

The editing for the intro was masterfully done. Get past the text overlay in the thumbnail, as it holds only a small part of the overall discussion. The lady in red (to me was insufferable) has bought the sexual liberation of feminism, and like me, many others saw her trapped in the trauma of her youth and taking her stance of feminism as a big FU against what she endured. What a sad way to live your life.

Men, love your wives, even as Christ has loved the church. And women, reverence your husbands - Paul (Ephesians 25-33)

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Bones's avatar

The Rockefellers get the presidential suite in hell

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Ed Ligon's avatar

Yes, Susan…we NEED each other. Just can’t trash a biological imperative.

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W. A. Samuel's avatar

Not sure about the Rockefeller’s role in promoting feminism (I’d like to see some documented history); but definitely agree with God’s design.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Same horsecrap for tranz-freak celebrations, drag queens and rampant promotion of deviance (LBGTQ) and porn.

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🌱NardπŸ™'s avatar

If you want men to β€œcome back”, maybe stop calling them β€œcis heterosexual males” and just call them MEN. That might work.

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Rob D's avatar

That insane CIS moniker makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. What the heck???

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Debra's avatar

I needed a definition of "cis" and why it is used. What the heck does it mean to be "on this side of" heterosexual? I get the AWFL acronym as these women are awful but this "cis" makes no sense to me. I'm too old for this crap.

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

It’s a term used in organic chemistry for the structure of a molecule. Cis is the same side; trans is opposite sides. Whatever.

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Debra's avatar

I’m not sure trans has any sides. They seem to be all over the place like a spinning top.

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Kathy's avatar

I like the word normal!

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Lori's avatar

LOL, I had to look it up bc I had no idea what it meant!

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I still don't get "They/Them"... but it sounds like some very serious mental disorder...

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RunningLogic's avatar

It’s so stupid πŸ™„

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PapayaSF's avatar

β€œCis” was adopted by trans activists because they needed a term for β€œnot trans” and didn’t like β€œnormal,” β€œnatural,” etc.

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MattieRoss's avatar

CIS: yet another example of the silly, made-up terminology the deceived are trying to force the rest of the world into adopting.

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PapayaSF's avatar

Activism is essentially persuasion, so they put a lot of effort into terminology: β€œgender-affirming care,” β€œtransphobia,” etc.

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CMCM's avatar

Yes, and a stupid word. I refuse to use it in any context.

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Cayce's avatar

They like the term "normy". Lol.

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Jeff S's avatar

Yeah, just call them "guys."

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I'm over sixty, a sixties generational woman, I'm old enough to hate being called names like "guys", "honey", "Sweetie", etc by most ppl with a few exceptions. Intimates are exceptions. Waitresses/waiters and cashiers are NOT MY INTIMATES. As a mature married woman I also don't like being called Miss. Now you know.

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AnnR's avatar

Maybe they are just trying to be nice and make a connection? You sound very bitter. I tend to call younger people "honey", or "sweetie", so I'm surprised at YOUR age, ANYONE is calling you that. Perhaps you should be grateful that another human being would even consider you sweet or honeylike. Because, clearly from your words, you are anything but.

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dancingtime's avatar

Actually, imho, calling people you do not know but who are customers "sweetie" or "honey" is condescending and a way to put people in their place....or bringing them down to the status level they see themselves being.

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Double Mc's avatar

There's a difference between a man calling us "sweetie" or "honey" and a woman doing it. In the South, it's just a kindness. When men do it, it is most likely condescension.

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deathcap's avatar

I was about to say, being called "sweetie" by a waitress at a Waffle House in Georgia is pretty par for the course.

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Debra's avatar

Yeh, I don't think it's a good idea to piss off anyone who is bringing you food. Even if they called me granny!

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Patti's avatar

Well this is true!

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MayBella82's avatar

It is when they say Bless Your Heart… they are putting you down. Calling sweetie or honey is just an endearment or they forgot your name.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I'm so old that my Bless your heart is old too. They've also changed that definition. 😞 School culture makes the last generation out of step me and more. Another reason to homeschool.

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alongername's avatar

Nowadays......... best to call the waitress DUDE

unless its a gayguy. Then i use Sweetie

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

Nah. Chill

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Patti's avatar

I agree with this. I don’t like it done to me and I don’t do it to others. I find it more respectful to ask for their name. Use their name. I remember feeling this way as a small child. I noticed it in healthcare nurses calling patients honey, sweetie, sweetheart! Yuck! No. Use their name.

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AnnR's avatar

I disagree.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Clearly you don't know me. Very rude to assume that you do.

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AnnR's avatar

True, I don't know you. But I read your words, pondered them, and made an assumption on an aspect of your personality based on your statements. Perhaps I could have made my point and ended my comment at "Maybe they are just trying to be nice and make a connection?" But, I couldn't help myself, because aren't you doing the same thing when you assume that someone is being condescending and/or patronizing if they call you sweetie or honey? You are ascribing negative personality traits onto those people. I'm just doing the same thing to you.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

That is a cheap shot that’s not backed up by anything she said.

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AnnR's avatar

I disagree. I think it absolutely says something about her. As I replied to her, SHE makes negative assumptions about people who might call her sweetie or honey - she thinks they are rude and disrespectful. So, if she can make assumptions about people based on THEIR words, why can't I?

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Mark D.'s avatar

Calm down, sweetie πŸ˜‰

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Ruth H's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Ok, but what if no one gives a rats ass?

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Patti's avatar

Some don’t. I don’t throw a fit about it some exchange’s are seconds in your life. Move on. It’s like the pronouns πŸ˜‚

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Kiara Sands's avatar

I live in the south and most people sincerely say things like that without any thought to it like β€œthank you sweetie” or like hey honey will you grab me that napkin over there? I think it says more about you being offended by such trivialities than them.

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AnnR's avatar

I agree.

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deborah7isheaven's avatar

I appreciate waitresses and nursing techs, etc calling me honey and sweetie. These are personal terms without needing to remember your name among hundreds! I’m trying to employ it myself since remembering a name is taking me longer these days! It was an aha moment. Alas, I wasn’t raised in the south where’d it be natural, but I surely appreciate the sentiment.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Thank you for your comment. My father would turn over in his grave if he thought I was using some of the β€œgreetings” and language of today.

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Paige Green's avatar

I’d love to be called Miss. When I was in my early years of college, I worked at a drugstore. I got Ma’am-ed All.The.Time! Lol!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Your not fifty five yet, are your?

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Paige Green's avatar

Mentally, no 😁

Biologically, I’m 62, just barely.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

But they call us guys too. If we’re out to dinner and the waiter calls us guys my husband belligerently says β€˜she’s not a guy’ or asks β€˜does she look like a guy?’ The kid cringes in befuddlement, and I cringe but not so much anymore. I almost said it the other night when out with a girlfriend. That’s progress!

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Brian Dixon's avatar

The plural noun "guys" is well established as a gender-neutral term. I wouldn't necessarily have the nerve to say it to his face, but I think your husband should lighten up about that.

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Fiona Colombo's avatar

I'm in my late 30s and (maybe this is a PNW thing) have definitely called any group of people that I'm a part of "guys," regardless of their gender makeup since my teens. Heck, I called my group of girlfriends or sisters "guys!" It's definitely not a modern thing.

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Jake's avatar

Lighten up Francis....

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Yea, I get that but just because it’s become part of our lexicon doesn’t mean it’s always appropriate. Picture the 20 something calling the 60+ ladies out to lunch β€˜guys’. I think it’s kinda disrespectful. Ironic that those kids also criticize us for not using the correct pronouns.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Not kinda, but definitely disrespectful

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Only in course, crude society do you refer to women as β€œguy” if you take your logic to its end, we will be calling mixed groups β€œdick heads”

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MattieRoss's avatar

If you’re looking for something to be upset about, chances are good that you’ll find it.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

If you’re looking for some reason to accept disrespectful language and actions, you’ll usually find it.

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MayBella82's avatar

I bet you are fun at parties too.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

I’m usually not invited. Wonder why? Lol! Oh, well

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Karen Bandy's avatar

True

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

The other day I walked up to two people, one a trans pretending to be a women, and the other a straight man. I started my sentence with β€œhey guys”. The trans wasn’t offended. It’s just a conversational greeting, not literal. Your husband got a cringe because he humiliated the kid, training him that he can’t speak like a normal person in public.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Maybe he was secretly offended. So much so, he will be asking you out on a date.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

No need to make a personal attack. That’s the cheap shot. Of course you can make assumptions.. never implied you couldn’t. You are making a judgement on her that’s is unsupported. That’s all. Free speech rocks! So do you…

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Huh? Was this meant for someone else?

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Sorry. Lol Got lost…. Senior moment. My apologies

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Karen Bandy's avatar

πŸ˜† been there, like every other day or two!

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

That’s not progress. It’s just yankee rudeness.

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LadyLiberty's avatar

"Guy guys." My term for normal men.

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Robin Esau's avatar

Was thinking the same. Offend them, slap them, and then invite them back. Like that's going to work πŸ™„

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alongername's avatar

Well..... seems like a lot of "men" were affected by the onslaught of feminism. Which is kinda mainstream nowadays, NOT just a democrat thing.

Commercials on TV overwhelmingly feature "soft" men , fuzzy beards and weak, funny excuse me looks. As the strong female leader looks on disapprovingly .

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Ruth H's avatar

And who runs the media (commercials), the DNC propaganda tool, the Dem Party agenda and paid for by big Pharma. Today’s commercials get worse by the day along with all the shows filled with the same agenda. It’s as if 75% of the population is gay.

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Emumundo's avatar

It reminds me of a bumper sticker I used to see in South Florida”Come back to Miami- we weren’t shooting at YOU!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right??

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RunningLogic's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

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nancy roberts's avatar

Nard.... πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ Ya think!???

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Rob D's avatar

When I was growing up, I was taught that I should always open the door for a lady, pull out her chair for her, walk on the curb side while strolling, and many other chivalrous things that men were supposed to do for the "fairer sex". In around the 1980s I held the door open for a lady and she went in the other door (after looking at me with a face that said something like, "what's wrong with you? Do you think I can't open the door for myself?), then when in a group of lovely women one time I said something to the effect of, "I'm so happy to be surrounded by all of you lovely ladies". One of these women scowled while asking, "who are you calling a lady?" Needless to say, I don't go out of my way anymore. Nah. If women don't want to be worshiped by men than so-be-it. The only women I treat the way I was taught are the ones in my family, and the elderly women (who still remember when men were allowed to treat them with a bit of extra care). Ladies, if you want men... let us be men. Let us do what we were naturally created to do... to take care of you. If you constantly give of an air of "I don't need you" well, guess what? We will gladly comply and you can fend for yourselves. Sorry, it's just a fact.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I read a little blurb back in the day, maybe late 80s-early 90s, and I can't remember where, but it was telling, even then.

A man and a woman were approaching the door to an office building. The man opened the door for the young woman and motioned for her to enter ahead of him. The woman snapped, "Don't open the door for me because I am a lady!" The man smiled and gently said, "I did not open the door for you because you are a lady. I opened the door for you because I am a gentleman."

I always thought it was a great double zinger!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Debra's avatar

Right here is a great example of parental failure for that young woman.

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Eli's avatar

When a man opens a door for me I always smile and say "thank you sir." Those of us who appreciate your old fashioned manners are still out there. You might want to try again :)

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Lori's avatar

I do as well and add in thank you for not giving up on all women!

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alongername's avatar

Too late Lori ! hahaha ( just kidding)

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Me too! So appreciate it!

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Jake's avatar

Going into the Dollar Store this morning I got there before two women. One Latino and one Black. I opened the door and let them go ahead of me. Both said thank you sir. I'm an old white guy from Minnesota don't ya know.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Exactly!!

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JacquelineP's avatar

I do too - AND I also hold the door open for other people (men and women) when the occasion arises. I consider it courteous.

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Lori's avatar

Chivalry rocks! My father still after 50 years of marriage, stood up when my mom left the table and when she came back, he held her chair out for her. He opened her car door for her and showed her such tender courtesy. It was beautiful to behold.

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Mark D.'s avatar

❀️ I will sprint around the other side of the car to get my wife’s door

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Lori's avatar

You are a keeper and a good man/hubby!

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Mark D.'s avatar

Aw thanks, she deserves that and much more πŸ™

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Ruth H's avatar

I was showing my youngest grandson to open the door and hold it for girls and grandmothers. He definitely took it to heart and now opens the door for me.

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TW's avatar

We are trying to teach our young sons to be chivalrous. The oldest is 10, youngest is 6 and they frequently forget, but sometimes they'll remember spontaneously to stand when i enter the room. They've had debates over whether to stand when i go to the kitchen during dinner, since there's only a bar separating the two spaces. It's very sweet :)

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Lori's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. Good manners and chivalry never go out of style:}

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mary's avatar

My son does the same for me and other women. I taught him when he was young to treat his sister and women gently and with respect. He is married to a wonderful woman who adores him. I did one thing correctly.

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Lori's avatar

Yes you did but I am sure you have done other things correctly too. You were and are integral to your son's life's resume:}

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I personally love and notice those wonderful "old world" gestures.

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M2's avatar

You can open a door for me and call me lovely anytime.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I personally love it when a man opens the door for me and will give him a warm smile and heartfelt β€œthank you” for it!!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Me, too, also!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Jacquijacq's avatar

I don’t want to be treated equal to you ….

I want to be treated better than you!!! (Credit Blanch Devereaux)

πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‚

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CJ's avatar

🀣🀣🀣 That's perfect.

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dancingtime's avatar

Some thoughts: Not all women are ladies. I am selective when I use it.

By the 80s, we were still reeling from the 60/70s femlib movement. I was an adult then and I could talk your ear off concerning the damage that it has done. However, that said, in the late 60s I joined Navy when men did not want us there, we were seen as whores, and Navy wives thought that we were after their husbands. There was a real need for women to be able to pursue jobs for which they gad aptitude. But like all movements, it became hijacked by radicals.

Everyone has 24 hours a day. You can never have it all and do it all well...but you can kill yourself trying.

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

Intriguing comment. I've been considering this angle -- that the unmarried, unattached women -- no matter how progressive the company -- are viewed as a threat.

Truly the most effective society is one where people marry young, and stay married -- and that means both parties doing the work to keep it going.

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Guy White's avatar

A Biblical fact.

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MattieRoss's avatar

Opening a door for a woman is simply the man’s way of showing her honor and esteeming her more highly than himself. It is NOT a bad thing.

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alongername's avatar

I always open a car door for a woman .

Sometimes......even when we're still moving πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‚

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Mark D.'s avatar

That reminds me: I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa- not screaming and terror like the passengers in his car πŸ˜†

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MayBella82's avatar

Love this… there are a few who should be pushed out!!

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Debra's avatar

Just a few days ago a kind young man held the door for me and I said "Thank you kind sir!" We both smiled.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I always appreciate politeness, from men and women and I am quick to respond in kind.

Some people are just rude and breeze thru the open door, for example, and sometimes I will say β€˜you’re welcome’ just to be a snarky biotch, other times I just ignore their rudeness but I never stop.

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SB's avatar

Yea. I went out for drinks after work one day with colleagues. I don’t remember what was said but one of them when I was leaving said something like β€œbummer all the good looking people will be gone” or something. Everyone but me was a guy (I’m a software engineer). Another male colleague quickly jumped in to defend the commenter β€œdon’t be upset, he didn’t mean anything by it.” It was so sad. This was over a decade ago. I turned and thanked the commenter for a compliment then I told the other guy β€œyou know, I grew up in the south, my daddy was a tobacco farmer, I’ve been cat called by drive by vehicles since I was 16, I’m not easily offended.” Now, the VP who came to a group all hands and dropped f bombs and cursed like a sailor the whole meeting, yea that pissed me off.

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MayBella82's avatar

When I was teaching my son to drive, I would have him open the passenger door for me (still does at 27). Also opening doors for others…. Ladies and elderly. A few years back, he called me when he was in college to tell me I was rights. A girl he had liked for a year, he had the opportunity to drive her home. He opened her door for her. When he asked her out, she said yes because he had manners. They are getting married next year now that he has his PHD. She is a lovely girl that I can’t wait to call my daughter. Manners matter.

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Peter's avatar

That was no lady

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I'm sorry that you laid down your sword to such sneering ignorance. The others may have just been too shocked to respond but you only heard the loudest b*. Who's the fool?

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Nicole Rivas weaver's avatar

Today's C&C was a refreshing read. I am glad to see the possibility of the return of the old fashioned home. ❀️ Many, many things would change for the better in this country. Masculinity and femininity work together synergystically and bring balance to the home and society. They complement one another. I could go on for volumes, but I'll leave it here.

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Tim R's avatar

I love walking through my neighborhood and seeing the young families playing ball or biking together. Husband, wife and kids all bringing love and value to each other in their own immutable ways.

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Nicole Rivas weaver's avatar

Amen! πŸ™πŸ»

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RunningLogic's avatar

There were some things that needed to be changed from the old model/ways but things went waaaaay too far πŸ˜• So much damage done, hopefully we’ll be able to start repairing it now πŸ™

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PapayaSF's avatar

That reminds me of another dating problem. One advantage of the old model is that it was a set of rules that everyone knew. Then ’60s-’70s feminism came along with new rules, but they never replaced all the old rules, even among feminists. So a man can’t really be sure what rules a woman expects, resulting in awkward situations. β€œIndependent feminists” can get miffed if men don’t offer to pay, or are turned off if the man is too deferential.

Add that to all the common female paradoxes (β€œI won’t tell you because you should already know,” β€œTalk about your feelings but don’t appear weak,” etc.) and no wonder guys throw up their hands and stop pursuing the Rachel Druckers of the world.

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Nicole Rivas weaver's avatar

Amen, Running Logic 🩷

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Temcol's avatar

The real benefit goes to the children! I work in an elementary school and daily see the results of good and limited parenting.

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alongername's avatar

It was also nice to bring up the "missionary position" in these matters .......

or...... has that changed ?? πŸ˜‚

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SaltSweet's avatar

It occurs to me that the Dems might see the President as a β€œKing” because they are so unfamiliar with what leadership, courage and masculinity looks like.

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Eli's avatar
Jun 21Edited

SaltSweet -- OMG -- nailed it!

Seriously -- this needs to become a meme.

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Second that.

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PapayaSF's avatar

Very true. They’ve pathologized all masculine energy as β€œtoxic,” β€œoppressive,” β€œauthoritarian,” and β€œfascist."

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Tamara Summers's avatar

πŸ’―

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M. Patrick McCrary's avatar

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6

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A.M.'s avatar

Too funny! Blindness is the problem. Their thinking is the problem. If Rachel went to Staten Island on a Friday night to a working class bar or Italian restaurant, she'd meet some men. She could likely, after a while, find a good man. But she wouldn't like him. What Rachel wants is a pet she can train but she's not in her 20s and that pet is going to become more elusive. Give it another 20 years and maybe she'll find an octogenarian merging into his twilight years who is ready to have Mama take care of it all.

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Lori's avatar

If you read any of her columns, even as a woman, you decide quickly you would not even want her as a friend or acquaintance.

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A.M.'s avatar

I actually quit my job as a magazine editor rather than read the NY Times. I feel that strongly about it. Haven't read the Times in 24 years.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

She probably wants nothing to do with the "bridge and tunnel crowd."

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Susan Seas's avatar

She probably tells herself It’s as easy to marry a rich man as a poor one πŸ™„

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Jeff S's avatar

It is, isn't it?

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Mitch's avatar

Hope that's not her plan, because in their 80's available women far outnumber available men.

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Double Mc's avatar

What's worse is that they eschewed having children in favor of their own independence, and that's going to leave them incredibly lonely and uncared-for in their old age, with no one to visit them in the nursing home. My father of seven children was blessed to have four living nearby. He had visitors every single day in the nursing home, sometimes more than one. It made a huge difference in his care by the staff. These poor women will be housed, but not cared for.

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Tamara Summers's avatar

It is sad, but on the upside, if they choose to stay child-free instead of choosing single motherhood β€” let us hope and pray πŸ™πŸ» β€” Rachel D. and her ilk won’t have the chance to raise another generation of miserable, self-loathing adults.

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MattieRoss's avatar

^literally this^

Thank you for pointing out the massive favor Drucker (and all the other AWFL’s, FTM) are doing for society by not procreating.

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RunningLogic's avatar

So many crow about being β€œchild free” and not having the burden and expense of children… yet they depend on OTHERS to have children so that there will be someone to take care of them when they need it. The person in the hospital or retirement home taking care of patients and residents is *someone’s* child that they chose to have and raise.

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SB's avatar

And don’t even get me started on how at 53, frankly, most men she finds are going to need some care in the not too distant future if she sticks around long enuf, but she’ll be angry she has to take care of him.

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shayne's avatar

I'm reminded of Benedict saying to Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing"....."God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face." LOL My favorite of Shakespeare's plays.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Including reminders to change his food stained shirt, his diaper, and whatever you do,: MEET him in your own vehicle. Allowing him to pick you up and DRIVE you to that restaurant can have consequences...

Oh, these Golden Years.

You oughta just SEE what's out there... Celibacy IS preferable. Honestly. Seriously. Especially at my age.

"Meglio sola che mal accompagnata."

Can't even sit through a lunch date without getting riled up. Best to just BLOCK HIS NUMBER in future because? He won't have gotten the hint. (Speaking from experience. Sadly.)

Just an old woman's POV. The "good ones" were got. Those "single after being long divorced" old ones? Throwbacks.

Thinking about funerals lately. As in: attending funerals of dearly departed wives whom I never actually knew. Checking obits. Maybe do a little quiet reconnaissance work...

(That used to be a joke between my sister and I when we were in

our forties. BTI. Before The Internet.)

I'll not win many friends nor influence many people with this comment and frankly: Not trying. πŸ˜‰)

Just my personal perspective,

after all that was said & commented upon in today's

post.

Cheers from West Canuckistan. (Elbows DOWN.)

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Double Mc's avatar

I have no clue what you are going on about.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Figures. πŸ˜‚

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Chriss Hammerschmidt's avatar

My single mom raised me to be very independent. Not because she was an AWFL, but because her father demeaned her as a child, she was raised by very, young parents. She hated men until the day she died, except for her grandchildren, she saw them having no flaws, which created deep rifts between us at times.

But I didn't go to the extreme, I had a failed relationship, one child, and a failed marriage, twins, but I didn't blame them. I blamed the fact that I never had a good father figure, someone who loved me unconditionally. I went looking for love and found lust.

It wasn't until I met my last husband, when I had learned to accept that I was still a good person and was doing the best I could in a world that taught me how to be myself. I forged my life with pain, loneliness, and at times emotional suffering, but these are things I inflicted on myself due to my choices, and when I found I made better choices, my life and other people in my life became themselves better people.

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SB's avatar

Yea I had a close relative whose husband cheated on her at least 3 times before she found out. Went thru an awful divorce and ended up a single parent barely able to support herself. Being almost 20 years older than me, she took it upon herself to teach me not to get married until I had already proven that I could support myself.

Fast forward many decades later and my husband got glioblastoma. He passed last December. I had 2 kids at home and no job when he was diagnosed. I had taken 5 years off to homeschool my kids. I went back to work but you better bet my kids are being told regularly to marry a woman who can support herself and him for my son and my daughter to be able to support herself and her family if necessary. That whole TradWife thing is cute and all but the reality is that many women don’t have that option and it has nothing to do with their choices.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I do think that one of the most important things to come out of the feminist movement was the ability for women to get a job even when married, and in positions other than teacher, nurse or secretary. As your experience illustrates, sometimes life throws you a curve ball and it’s good to be prepared with skills and a work history if that does happen.

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……'s avatar

I think of this too. Women in history were many times left to ruination and poverty if they lost their husbands. How is that upholding the dignity of women to give them no means to survive and destitution their only option with no man in the picture? There is a balance that needs to be had. I think our current culture where women can work part time or out of the home is fantastic for this.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree!! And I personally think that is one reason why prostitution has existed for so long. Women who didn’t have a man to support them had very few options and that was sometimes what they had to do to survive πŸ˜• I’m also glad women have more options today. The internet has actually been a huge boon imo since it can give workers a lot more flexibility.

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……'s avatar

Yes, I think that’s a fair point. What do they have left to sell but the use of their body? Especially if it meant food for their children. And then they are derided by society for being prostitutes…except for Jesus…

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SB's avatar

Agreed. I’m thankful for that aspect.

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Chriss Hammerschmidt's avatar

And yet, good for those that have found that type of fulfilling relationship for themselves. We are unique, and I think the point is we shouldn't thrust our view of the world on anyone else.

We each have to muddle through and make sense of it ourselves. I'm glad for them. I wanted a family like that, but didn't know how to get there because it was never modeled for me. These women have found self-confidence that I never had. They can be themselves.

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Granite's avatar

I suppose that you could bite the bullet and argue that it is better instead to use the extended family or church for this kind of support. Or that this kind of systemic risk is less bad than the alternative.

I am also unsure whether a society that has to artificially restrict the opportunities available to women or a large portion of its members deserves to survive: if people are not voluntarily sacrificing and doing their part, why should it exist?

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Chriss - thanks for sharing, well said. I'm glad for you.

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Jeff S's avatar

Good for you. Congratulations. Enjoy.

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John Galt?'s avatar

My Father served in the military in post-WW2 Europe. He met and married my Mother, and together they created their first son shortly thereafter. Dad ushered my Mother to the US to give birth to my oldest brother. She was 18. By the time she was 28, she bore six more children. The longest gap between births was when she miscarried between my older brother and I. I have a picture of her at 29, arms crossed, victorious and defiant. In her apron. Women today have no idea what they're missing, choosing education and career over motherhood, or at least postponing it until they can wedge it into their schedule. They bought the Marxist lie.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I did, but there was more to it than that lie. We saw a big change daily in the news and music and fashion and the first summer of love, the hippie part.

I didn’t have a good role model in a mother who was young and narcissistic and my husband had a deadbeat father. It was a perfect storm for our decision to not have kids. My husband was adamant, me not as, and he won.

I was weak. But we are still together. I guess it worked pretty well.

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John Galt?'s avatar

Life has a way of extending grace to us later on.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

Not all men are like your father. My maternal grandfather was probably like your father, and my mother mistakenly thought all men were like him. My mother and many others of her generation chose marriage and motherhood over pursuing her education. Five children later, my father wanted something new. Self-determination and all having the same constitutional protections and opportunities, which is essentially what feminism is in its basic form, are not Marxist ideas. There's a backlash that tends to lump all females into a hive mind, as in "She makes women look bad" when a woman does something stupid. I'm a woman and not responsible for what other women, or men for that matter, say and do. The Trad wives have chosen their paths in life. That is feminism. Feminism is also the fact that if the Trad wife needs to help support her family financially for any reason, she will have options.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Just finally watched the Heritage Foundation panel with Tiffany Justice yesterday afternoon, man when she talked about her middle schooler and the masks it gave me bad flashbacks πŸ˜•πŸ˜ž The mingled sense of fury, sadness and powerlessness I felt at that time!! πŸ˜‘πŸ˜• We really can NEVER let this happen again, and I still want to see some people pay for the suffering their decisions caused to so many people, especially the kids!! I really hope this Reckoning will come, praying you’re right, Jeff!!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Current masking triggers some sort of PTSD in me.

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Melissa S's avatar

While I think that the PTSD term or diagnosis is way overused these days, the Covid years - whether one was a true Covidian believer who lived in constant fear of getting it or was on the other side constantly maligned and accused of being dangerous, wanting to kill grandma, and threatened to lose their job if they didn't comply with the totally senseless, anti-science, and authoritarian mandates - have left all of us with an assault on our physical bodies and mental and emotional health. It wasn't just a one time experience. It was years of assault. Seeing someone alone, driving their car while masked or walking into a medical office with employees masked can set me off. And not in a good way!

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RunningLogic's avatar

I almost used that term but decided against it because I don’t want to disrespect all of the veterans and victims of abuse or crimes with PTSD. However, I did get teary-eyed and let out a few involuntary sobs because her experience so closely mirrored mineβ€”with the exception of the son saying he didn’t want to live anymore if he had to wear a mask 😒😞 mine was maybe too young to articulate that or maybe it was his personality, he got more angry about it than anything else. Still I felt those same emotions that she’d felt and was expressing. I will never forget that as long as I live.

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Denise Hudak's avatar

I have a friend whose son developed very unsightly eye tumors from being forced to wear masks and his ophthalmologist told him to never ever put a mask on again! I feel like the high school that forced him to wear them should be sued! If it were my son, we

would have gone after the school administration for damages.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Hmmm, it pisses me off and makes me laugh!

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PapayaSF's avatar

A few weeks ago I was taking a constitutional walk in my neighborhood and two people wearing masks crossed the street to avoid getting too close to unmasked me.

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Jake's avatar

Democrats are gonna democrat... You're better off being avoided....

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RunningLogic's avatar

Also same. Lots of simultaneous reactions and feelings about that πŸ€ͺ

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PamelaZelie's avatar

You are not alone.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Same πŸ˜•

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GreyCat's avatar

Same here…I want to pull those masks off their faces, and say, β€œJUST STOP IT! You’re STILL ruining it for the rest of us!”

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alongername's avatar

The WHOLE plandemic brought so much into the spotlight . The evil of the ruling class. The obedience of the populations . And sadly, how large the horrible "just following orders" crowd really was .

Freedom lovers who would not play along were really treated like shit .

And........... the insanity STILL continues !

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PapayaSF's avatar

One ironic result: Randi Weingarten and the teachers unions got the school closures and β€œremote learning” they wanted, which resulted in parents at home seeing the woke nonsense their kids were actually being taught, which gave school choice and homeschooling their biggest-ever boosts. Oops!

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RunningLogic's avatar

I love that this whole thing backfired on them in that way 😁

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

...and it turned me into a super anti-vaxxer.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Same.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

For years now I have noticed that when women (or feminized men like Walz or Newsom)become prominent in a profession or an institution, the profession and the institution are weakened to the point that collapse looks inevitable: the ministry, higher education (both faculty and administration), public school administration (the post of superintendent in particular), medicine, elective office (especially in the executive branches of local, state, and federal governments), police work, the military, fiction writing (see this article: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-vanishing-white-male-writer/), and even local Chambers of Commerce. Someone left a comment on a Substack a while back that I want to echo: When I learn that a pilot on an airplane is a woman, my confidence in her ability drops. There, I’ve said it. Good to get all this off my chest.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I want an old guy named Steve who is ex-military in the cockpit.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

You can have Steve but sometimes a woman can help him find the airport… it happens. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

If they are in the car. lol

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

Or a plane… we were in thunderstorms near Tokyo and the captain wanted a vector away from the airport, closer to a cell. I told him the airport was on our right, showed him the ADF needle and VOR. He didn’t believe me - threatening me that it would be my job if I was wrong. Never said a word when we landed ten minutes later… he was disoriented. Seriously Mary Ann, women can do what men can.

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JudyAnne Hutchison's avatar

Become a good woman or a good man and you will have a wonderful life...

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JudyAnne Hutchison's avatar

Thanks Kathy...Women Fly...

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Thanks, Captain!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

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Exactly! I’ve flown with β€œSteve β€œ and am always grateful for his strength and abilities in facing the challenges of being several miles above the earth, something I’m still not certain is even possible! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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RunningLogic's avatar

Like Sully!! 🀩

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Only if unjabbed.

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Stacy's avatar

That’s my Dad! How I adore him!

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Stacy's avatar

He wasn’t in the literal cockpit, but he is still our patriarch! And he made sure the literal pilots had their avionics and armaments available to them. 😁

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MayBella82's avatar

I am disappointed that you, a Veteran, would bash female military pilots. Most of the females flying for the airlines were female military pilots who all flown operational and some in combat. I don’t know what you did in the military but I flew H-46 off of Navy ship where I rescued people, trained Navy SEALS and EOD, ensure those in the Navy ships got their mail from home along with a host of other things.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

The male and female military pilots who've flown me (I was EOD) were all excellent. You may have been one! I remember one I flew with on Vieques. Isn't it ironic that so many are willing to openly bash women who step outside the box and use their God-given skills and abilities. I wouldn't let any one of these female misogynists anywhere near my children. Kim

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MayBella82's avatar

I was on the Mount Baker.. we had a EOD det onboard … flew them a lot. You know important trust is between them and the pilots.

These women remind me of the spouses of the guys who were average but their wives wanted to wear their rank.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

Especially when doing SPIE near transmission lines!

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shayne's avatar

You win the internet today... LedMAO

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MayBella82's avatar

I’d take a military pilot over a civilian one any day… and a military female pilot over a male one. I’ve gone through flight school and deployed on Navy ships. The women hands down have been the calm ones and had the skill set. Guys are not challenged like the women are in flight school. It takes a certain type of woman to even make it to flight school. I am still very good friends with ones from then… one of the ones I deployed with is the 3 star in charge of the Navy Reserve, I have 4 friends who have been flying 25 years commercially (American, Delta, UPS, and FEDEX). All of them are Captains. I could go on with more who have accomplished much in their careers… and all but one have families and kids. Really good kids that all but one is in college or have graduated… with my son being the most educated one with his PHD. So, you can have Steve… I’ll take the one who will get me safely to my destination.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I agree with all, but I will add even though the males don't have to prove themselves over and over and over again, many are just as good as their female counterparts.

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MayBella82's avatar

Yes, they are many great male pilots… the fact that we have to say male or female is sad in this day and age. Flying is unforgiving…either you are good or you go one way or another. They do NOT make you an aircraft Commander.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I taught under 4 women academic deans at the college level. All were incompetent at heading up academic affairs: they engaged in backbiting, grade changing, supporting student complaints about β€œhard” professors, and were always much too empathetic about student emotions which only encouraged more student misbehavior. And then DEI showed up. Need I say more?

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dancingtime's avatar

I have worked with women like that...life in the office became a soap opera of unhinged emotions...petty...back biting..but not professional.

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Kathy's avatar

In fairness, I think it depends upon the quality of the woman at the top. I use an all female veterinary practice, not because they’re female, but because they are good. The woman (vet) who owns it is kind and respectful to the other employees. It runs like a beautiful tight ship. For years it had never even occurred to me that I had not seen one male working there either as a vet or a tech or a person at the desk. It was just a pleasant place to do business with. And then, on the other side of the coin, I have been in hair salons, where the cattiness was off the charts!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Every veterinarian in our area is a woman and can’t hold a candle to the men who used to practice. Any time I see women dominating a field, it’s never been a good sign. You’re lucky to have found vets you can trust.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

That’s precisely what we had under those 4 women.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I have also worked with men like that. I have also worked with good men and women. With your clear misogyny, I would not choose to work with you.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Despising what DEI and 4th wave feminism has done to ruin higher education, does not make me a misogynist. And yes, there are awful men who wield power and shouldn’t, but they do it in a different way. They don’t do whisper campaigns, gossip, backbiting, or stop speaking to people who disagree with them.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

You have clearly never worked with men, or you've kept yourself in blissful ignorance. I've worked for great men and great women. I've also worked for manipulative and backbiting men and women. The nasty men were much sneakier about it while the nasty women were very obvious, and I easily went around them. I've never had any trouble with men at the top of their field, but some men further down the pecking order will spend their time trying to undermine me.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Let’s try this again. DEI came to higher education much earlier than it did other institutions, just as critical theory was being taught in college classrooms. I worked for and was a student in classes taught by exceptionally competent women before DEI and 4th wave feminism. When my college adopted DEI hiring practices for both faculty and administration, that’s when the incompetence showed up. When you limit the pool of those you hire to immutable characteristics instead of hiring on the basis of excellence and merit, standards are lowered. This is not hard to comprehend.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I'm game. I am very familiar with the problems that happen when the pool of applicants is limited to specific immutable characteristics. In one case, we get the majority selected to be good at their profession, but we also get some strap hangers who are mediocre. This used to be the case with white males and this is what happens when the pool is not open to all. The script has been somewhat flipped, and I detest it just as much as I did the script of the 60's, 70's and 80's. But what you describe isn't DEI for women. You are describing DEI for ideology. Even if I had the "right degree" for the job, I guarantee this old feminist could not get hired by these lunatics. I'm completely devoid of band wagoning onto whatever The Thing of the year is. The Old Guard didn't like me, and the New Guard doesn't like me, which indicates I'm right.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Here is a quote from the Substack written by β€œTechno Fog” (which makes my point for me about what selecting for immutable traits does to aid in the lowering of standards): β€œIf you recall, Justice Jackson was selected as part of Biden’s fulfillment of a campaign promise: to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. While Jackson checked that box, there were always doubts on the left about her intellectual rigor and her ability to persuade.” In limiting his search Biden, by definition, eliminated a lot of other people who would have been better prepared for SCOTUS. It was Jackson, I believe, who said she doesn’t know what a woman is because she’s not a biologist.

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Starsky's avatar

My father was an airline pilot. He always told me how impressive the lady pilots he flew with were. β€œBest pilots I’ve ever flown with.” However, he retired in the 1990s. Not sure he would feel the same today after the DEI years.

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PapayaSF's avatar

In those days any woman who made it past the bias was probably darn good. It was merit, not filling quota numbers. DEI can only get you more women pilots, but not better ones.

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MayBella82's avatar

Exactly… everybody knew your name, how you scored on your flight and if you burped during your flight. There was no room for mistakes.

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Granite's avatar

I suppose it could get you better ones, but only by creating and expanding a pipeline.

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Jacquijacq's avatar

I totally agree! We flew recently w two women in the cockpit. First time in my life I was afraid to

Fly. Can’t help it. I know how I don’t stay calm in an Emergency but my hubby is cooler the worse it gets. I’m afraid that translates by sex and I want a calm man at the helm!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Three years ago our elderly dog had some kind of spasm; he couldn’t breathe and was flopping around in an awful panic. I panicked too, screamed for my husband who calmly took Oliver’s face and blew deeply into his nose 7 or 8 times. Oliver survived. Just remembering it now, my heart is pounding.

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Kathy's avatar

I agree with most things you said here, but I think medicine was created by and ruined by men long before women got in the picture. Not to mention the fact that the early herbalists and midwives tended to get burned at the stake sometimes for being β€œwitches.”

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Medicine is a train wreck, I suspect because it’s now a bureaucracy that has little interest in patients. Doctors have been captured by Pharma.

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JudyAnne Hutchison's avatar

Always follow the money...

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Lori's avatar

I feel the same way although feel a bit guilty saying it as many women are brilliant but there, I said it too. Thanks for your post Mary Ann.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I didn’t use to feel that way because women used to have to work even harder to get accepted to these jobs so you could expect them to be very competent. Now with all of the DEI initiatives over the past years, though, I’d wonder πŸ˜•

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

As a retired airline captain I have to agree about DEI. I hate it. But I’m saddened by this thread and the fear of flying and lack of trust/confidence in women. I know so many competent women… doctors, veterinarians, and pilots. The same goes for men doctors, vets, and pilots. Oh, BTW I was civilian trained, and I know civilian pilots and military pilots who I wouldn’t fly with as well as Vice versa. Come on people, we can do better than this.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I definitely think DEI is to blame for a lot of that though πŸ˜• I would not go as far as some here and say I immediately feel less safe with a woman pilot. But with DEI I always have to wonder now if standards were lowered to skew the statistics πŸ˜• I think it’s terrible because it’s done more harm to women and minorities than good πŸ˜• I hate generalizations and DEI and the like push us to think of people as groups and categories and not individuals, which I think is a shame, very detrimental.

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JudyAnne Hutchison's avatar

Thanks again Kathy...some REAL uncommon sense...if we continue to allow ourselves to be divided by anything...the unelected, psychopathic, moron parasites win...

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Lori's avatar

Ditto.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I had a few misgivings before posting this because I know there are brilliant women, but like anyone brilliant, they simply can’t be in numbers that we are told are in positions of authority right now.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

That reminded me of working as a mechanic when I was a young adult, and I was a very good mechanic working for Sears. God made me with very good mechanical inclinations, and I don't fight God. My immediate supervisor was also an excellent mechanic, but the 2 males I worked with were terrible and always did a mediocre job. A woman pulled her car in and made it very clear she would only let one of my 2 male co-workers touch her car. I was happy to stand aside and let her have them. Meanwhile, on another day, I got to work on the car of P.A. Denklar, a US Navy jet pilot at the time. She later retired as a Delta captain and she can be my captain any time. I just finished designing and building almost a mile of road where there had been a 10ft wide, eroded sand trail for 45 years, during which decades the men bickered, and the county did absolutely nothing. This hasn't been a blockade to a 35-year marriage and 3 children, with a grandchild on the way.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

That had to have been before DEI!

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BeadleBlog's avatar

There has always been some promotion of incompetence over competence. Before DEI, it was often incompetent men over competent women. I would love to see DEI vaporized, but it seems you just want to go back to the other extreme rather than just promoting merit.

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MayBella82's avatar

As a Navy female pilot, I will take a β€œLucy” over a β€œSteve” every time. I know the difference in the training. No one knows the guys names and they slide by compared to the females who every single person knows each female that is in training. There is nothing that slides by when you are a female pilot. No mistake that is not talked about.

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MayBella82's avatar

BTW, you will not find DEI in aviation. Flying is not for the weak mind.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

Well maybe more DEI than we could have imagined πŸ˜”

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MayBella82's avatar

Sorry Kathy, you are the first non-military female pilot I have met. I will say that my best friend who flies for American only has great things to say about the females she has had the opportunity to fly with. Her comments are always positive about the military ones too. She has some interesting comments about a few of the men who were not military trained. There is about 10 of us who went through flight school that go on vacation together now that our kids are grown. It is interesting to hear the airline pilots compare experiences… we have American, Delta, UPS, FedEx and one who trains foreign students. I injured my back and got out of flying after 10 years.

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MayBella82's avatar

Yes, when the military hasn’t done their job and let women go to the next phase of flying because of pressure from Congress, women have died. I know of one who went into the back end of a carrier and another who ejected into the ground killing both herself and the instructor pilot. DEI doesn’t get you far in an environment that is unforgiving.

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Granite's avatar

Fair enough. When the price of incompetence is frequently death, chumps get weeded out. Especially if the instructor is in the same plane as the student. I can see DEI, etc only mattering on the margins in the naval aviation community.

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MayBella82's avatar

They don’t last … but it is not just the DEI. I’ve seen it with Academy grads given the benefit of doubt and it is the same. Flying doesn’t care about sex, race or how smart… common sense and being coordinated make better pilots.

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MayBella82's avatar

She is a commercial pilot… I said a female military pilot. I don’t trust any commercially train pilot whether a male or female. It is easy to tell them apart especially when landing.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

Seriously? How? Because they β€œstick” the landing hard with a tail hook? Navy pilots in a crosswind? Then there’s that icy runway in Anchorage, max gross weight where you want it solid! The lack of knowledge on this thread is weird… how did people become experts on everything they haven’t done?

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MayBella82's avatar

Did you miss the part where I said I was a Navy H-46 pilot? You think it is easy to land on a Navy Aircraft Carrier? Or an Ammo ship where you have 2 feet clearance for your main mounts before you go over the side of the ship on a ship that is pitching and rolling? You must be Wonderwoman because those of us who have flown in that type weather have been to funerals of those who didn’t land the landing.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

No MayBella - I disagree with your commercially trained pilot comment… seriously? We all have our strong points - airports don’t go up and down! But carriers face into the wind.

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MayBella82's avatar

What is your background? Ever fly at sea? We all have flown over land and landed at airports.

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MayBella82's avatar

And the carrier is still going up and down! I don’t know if you have been on a carrier in the Atlantic but the Atlantic Ocean is not flat. I’ve been in seas up to 35 feet… granted, we were not flying and everyone was strapped in. But we fly in bad weather. My best friend and her co-pilot got vertigo in an E-2… could not get out of it. She landed the plane with a bad case of vertigo and both her and her co-pilot were in medical for 3 days. If they had not landed on the flight deck, their next option was ditching the plane and sending the helo to pick them up out of the water. I don’t know one pilot who not rather land on a runway when there is a problem than having the ocean as your option.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

You’re not listening to me. I am not not not minimizing your skills. Period. I am saying we all have different ones and the idea that a navy pilot is better than a marine pilot is better than an army pilot is better than a commercial pilot is all BS.

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MayBella82's avatar

I forgot to mention… this is an ad.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I'm dumbfounded by the misogyny among the females and the blase character attacks of females. I'll bet these same females believe children should be under the care of the "backbiting," hysterical and nasty creatures they describe. I would not have let one of these women near my (3) children when they were young. They should definitely be out of the house and only around adults who can fight back.

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MayBella82's avatar

I am too. None of my friends think like this... and you don't either. I wonder if it is because we worked in a non-traditional job for women... we worked hard and earned the respect of men.

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MayBella82's avatar

Also, I think they have not control over their emotions... two of them was talking about being useless in an emergency. I've been around enough men to know that some of them are horrible in an emergency too. Being calm in an emergemcy has to do with compartimizing and not what sex you are. n

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PapayaSF's avatar

Years ago the Daily Mail had a wonderful piece by a UK woman who started an all-female TV production company. She had all the feminist hopes you’d expect, but the company became a toxic brew of rivalries, grudges, and backbiting. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1168182/Catfights-handbags-tears-toilets-When-producer-launched-women-TV-company-thought-shed-kissed-goodbye-conflict-.html

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Jake's avatar

Sounds like a typical office with too many women to me.

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Pairodocs's avatar

I wrote about that exact phenomenon and called it "gynocratic technoauthoritarianism":

https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-real-men-gone-c3b

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Your piece, I remember, struck a never with me; so much so that I bookmarked it because it matches so much of what I had been thinking about for a long while. I remember thinking that maybe when women are put in charge in large numbers and when men desert those positions, that it was the women’s role to destroy what they had been put in charge of. Mind you, over the years I have met a few women who were leaders and who spoke like grownups with actual grownup female voices. But have you noticed that fourth wave feminist women sound like 8th graders girls? (Vocal fry, ending sentences as though they are questions?)

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Pairodocs's avatar

I am a woman--so I'm inclined to believe that women are capable of great things. It's just that "women" (on average) have certain character traits (and instincts) that don't lend themselves well to leadership roles. There are clearly exceptions to this generalization, and there are clearly also men who make terrible leaders. It's just that, statistically, the more women you get running things, the worse things get. More emotional reasoning. More toxic empathy. Etc. I don't think the solution is to eliminate women from leadership roles. I think the solution is to stick to strict meritocracy. Some women will still rise to the top because they're awesome. But promoting them on the basis of "equity" has been a disaster.

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MayBella82's avatar

I am saying that military trained pilot is better than a commercial pilot. A commercial pilot will never fly in the weather that a military pilot will. I do believe that any pilot that has flown out at sea is a better pilot than one that has only landed on land. Having done both many times, landing on land is easier every single time compared to landing on a ship no matter what bed of the water it is. I have flown jets, single engine planes and helicopters. Most of my time is in H-46 at sea during the winter and spring.

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β€œBut this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets; having a hope in God, for which these men are waiting, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a conscience without fault both before God and before men.” β€” Paul, before Governor Felix, Acts 24:14-16 LSB

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Stacy's avatar

Good morning, y’all!! Ah, C&C. Where men are men and the women know why.

We on the Right have our problems, but we don’t have to ask silly questions like where you big dorks (with all due affection) have gone. We have other silly questions to ask, but not that one.

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RunningLogic's avatar

β€œC&C. Where men are men and the women know why”

New t-shirt idea?? πŸ˜†πŸ˜

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Jeff S's avatar

Nah, new idea for underwear.

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Lori's avatar

Jeff, does that mean you are tired of the Calvin Klein logo on the underwear??

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RunningLogic's avatar

That always makes me think of β€œBack to the Future” πŸ˜†

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Jeff S's avatar

Marty McFly!

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Jeff S's avatar

Who wears underwear?

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Lori's avatar

LOL, so you go commando like Kramer on Seinfeld!!

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Jeff S's avatar

Not even. I'm conservative. Briefs or gym shorts, when solo or working on OnlyFans...

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Lori's avatar

Yes but your boys may wish you were liberal in this case, lol! Either way, your comments crack me up, keep them rolling!

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Jeff S's avatar

My boys? Good one. Haha. Left myself open for that.

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Lori's avatar

Yes you did but it harkens back to what Kramer said on that same Seinfeld episode!

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Jeff S's avatar

I have never watched that show, nor many others. Not even in reruns. Because after work I have always run or played basketball or tennis or lifted weights. Then, I read until I fall asleep and dream about fighting battles, winning wars, and breaking hearts. Egads!

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RunningLogic's avatar

πŸ€£πŸ˜†

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Stacy's avatar

πŸ˜†

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Stacy's avatar

I like the way you think! πŸ€” πŸ’­

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Lori's avatar

I agree Stacy. Men (with some exceptions) are magnificent specimens of creation and they deserve better than fanatic liberal women like Drucker who take their balls and strap them to herself. Not a good look there. These women are so daft not to be able to figure out how they have turned off men and sent them running in the opposite direction.

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Stacy's avatar

It’s so illustrative that the party of inclusion, diversity, and tolerance won’t get their heads around the fact that the fundamental differences between this group and that are exactly what makes life between the groups so special. If they stopped whining about how nothing has changed and it’s all their fault, they wouldn’t have to break the rules to stay in power.

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SM's avatar

β€œWho take their balls and strap them to themselves β€œ πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Women and men like Trump, despite his eccentricities and crassness, because he’s a MAN. He’s not just a man, he’s an extremely strong, resilient, calculated and ambitious man. He dominates everything. Those traits attract men and women, whether they like it or not. You can disagree with his approach, his political jargon or his mean tweets, but his manhood makes no apologies. I want that over feminized beta males ANY DAY. Men are designed to be bold leaders!

There are too many confused men out there. When they find their true identities and embrace their strength and manhood, women will flock to them. Families will be rebuilt, society will have order, children won’t be groomed or trafficked (because real men aren’t attracted to CHILDREN.) The next generation of men have a big feminism problem to fix, but I believe it will happen!

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Granite's avatar

I still think he is incompetent at international diplomacy and hires too many syncophants.

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Stacy's avatar

Questions like β€œwhere has our backbone gone?” and, β€œwhy can’t we seem to shake Lindsay Graham?” Those silly questions.

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🌱NardπŸ™'s avatar

Perzactly.

If you REALLY want to follow the SCIENCE, human survival depends on the following gender roles:

Men: Provide, Protect

Women: Feed, F*ck (sorry to be crude, but it’s just easier to remember that way…and honestly, more rhythmic).

The AWFLS have created a world which ensures their demise. Long live the tradwives and the REAL men!

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Lori's avatar

I posted on FB 10 years ago that I was not into womens lib-the audience of women came after my jugular saying I live in the Dark Ages and am useless in society. Hah-the jokes on them now!!!

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Stacy's avatar

I joked with my husband that the only thing that could tempt me enough to set foot in NYC would be to appear on his arm in such a restaurant as a flex on females like this Drucker dingbat.

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Jeff S's avatar

Drucker was lying. She can't afford to dine out at a restaurant in NYC.

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Stacy's avatar

🎯 🎯 🎯

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Stacy's avatar

No apologies necessary. You nailed it (😏). It’s life’s driving force and once we reunite that act with love, a few feminists will finally see the power we’ve had all along and that maybe the damsel in distress isn’t such a weakling if she’s worth fighting for. Entitled princesses like Drucker have locked themselves up in their own towers, don’t know it, and don’t know why nobody wants to come for them.

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DM's avatar

I am capable of more than feeding and fucking.

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🌱NardπŸ™'s avatar

Aren’t we all…and men are capable of more than provision and protection. But when you boil it down to the primal, what is absolutely necessary for survival of the species, that is what you get. At least according to evolutionary biologists.

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Kimberly's avatar

I have noticed lately that the only people having children are those on the Right! The left is literally allowing themselves to die off.

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Jeff S's avatar

Music to my smears.

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Julie's avatar

Love this article and the truths underlying Rachel’s ridiculous narrative! The facts stand on their own. Thank you again and again and again for your brilliant synopsis of what is actually going on in the DNC.

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Lori's avatar

If you read her articles, you realize what a sad and unloved person she is.

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Mark Ritter's avatar

I loved this one! I am married 47 years. It’s weird but I was thinking about this very topic and prayed about it this morning. Marriage between men and women is a picture of God Himself. Genesis says God made man in His own image β€œmale & female”. They are different but one when they join. β€œOne strong a protector of the family and the other the nurturer of the family. Men need women and women need men. The qualities of each are complimentary and of equal value. One without the other is lonely unless there is a strong connection with God Himself.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Well said!!

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