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Posted on 11/21/2011 6:33:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Women may be the 51%, but the Occupy camps and General Assemblies look as gender-imbalanced as Congress.
"I'm called 'that white b*tch who gets everything she wants' at the GA's," says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit of a defiant posture. She's been at Occupy LA since the second week of the encampment. A now former-assistant director for indie films, Whitaker is good looking in a vaguely familiar, probably-an-actor kind of way. She looks like just the type who moves to Los Angeles every day to "follow their dreams," but she's sleeping in a tent at City Hall. She tells me she has figured out what she wants to do with her life: activism. This is it for her. She loves this stuff.
It's early November and helicopters are hovering over our heads as the Los Angeles Police Department arrests a guy who is thought to have attempted to light a woman's hair on fire at the camp. He was kicked out and has been causing problems ever since. Nearly 20 police officers are gathered at the corner of the park. This interrupts my conversation with Whitaker and delays her next interview with a YouTube channel called Inside Out News.
During the very first week of the Occupation in LA I noticed that the gender breakdown in its General Assembly (GA) and various committee meetings was roughly the same as the within the U.S. Congress. In other words, about one-fifth of those who were participating in the (small d) democratic part of this Occupy encampment were women. It was the same with the people who slept in the camp.
This is pretty consistent throughout the movement in general.
Thus far I've visited eight Occupations in the U.S. and Canada...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“Hey babe! How about some ‘progressive stacking’?”
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Looks pretty beaten up for a 21 year old.
>> Looks pretty beaten up for a 21 year old.
Either that picture isn’t of the 21-year-old, or else she isn’t 21. One or the other.
Then I take it you don’t have a trust fund, like the author almost certainly does?
“Upper U.S.” as some joker in my old office used to say...
Elise Whitaker
Surely she is not the blonde in that photo. That woman looks around 40.
It’s my experience that most women aren’t all that fond of camping out, especially if it does not involve an RV.
Of course, my sample is neither randomly selected nor statistically significant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qywUPkxlYpU
It’s the hard-knock life for us!
It’s the hard-knock life for us!
‘Steada treated,
We get tricked!
‘Steada kisses,
We get kicked!
It’s the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It’s the hard-knock row we how!
Cotton blankets,
‘Steada of wool!
Empty Bellies
‘Steada of full!
It’s the hard-knock life!
Don’t if feel like the wind is always howl’n?
Don’t it seem like there’s never any light!
Once a day, don’t you wanna throw the towel in?
It’s easier than puttin’ up a fight.
No one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy!
No one cares if you grow...of if you shrink!
No one dries when your eyes get wet an’ weepy!
From all the cryin’ you would think this place’s a sink!
Ohhhh!!!!!!!
Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!
Santa Claus we never see
Santa Claus, what’s that?
Who’s he?
No one cares for you a smidge
When you’re in an orphanage!
(Making a whistling sound and imitating Miss. Hannigan)
You’ll stay up till this dump shines
like the top of the Chrysler Building.
Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety Pin
Make her drink a mickey finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan
(whistle) Get to work!
(whistle) Strip them beds!
(whistle) I said get to work!
It’s the hard-knock life for us
It’s the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life!
Many of the useful idiot Occupukes are members of the elitist cult called Trustifarians.
"I'm called 'that white b*tch who gets everything she wants' at the GA's," says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit of a defiant posture.
No, you're just another LA narcissist who thinks they blend.
And hopes this will help your resume'.
And thinks nobody knows what you're really doing.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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