Why I Am In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young (huge barf alert!)

The Feminist Wire ^ | 3/20/14 | Stephanie Gilmore

[Impala64ssa]

According to that radical feminist organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, domestic terrorism is intended “to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.” Okay, so I really do not believe that the FBI is a radical feminist organization. But when I consider what happened at University of California-Santa Barbara last week when the antichoice, antiwoman group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust brought their graphic signage and deliberate misinformation about abortion, equating it to Holocaust, I believe that this group is engaged in the practices of intimidation and coercion. So did Mireille Miller-Young, professor of Feminist Studies at UCSB – and she said as much in response to the presence of this group at her workplace. Miller-Young disagreed with their message and their presence, and Joan and Thrin Short, people from this organization, followed Miller-Young and two unidentified students (unclear if they are Miller-Young’s students, but they are students at UCSB). According to their own video, which they uploaded, Joan Short videotaped Miller-Young without her consent. She and her sister harassed Miller-Young as she and the two students crossed a plaza and entered a building. The Short sisters followed her all the way into an elevator, where they sought to impede her ability to go to her office. Miller-Young repeatedly told these people to leave her alone and let her get onto the elevator, but they kept harassing her and refusing to let her enter the elevator and get away from them.

[Chode]

yup, pretty much

[moovova]

Exactly.

And, then today, we get news the Brits are burning the bodies of aborted babies...TO POWER THEIR HEAT SYSTEM!

I’m just sick.

[Chode]

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Of course you are, Stephanie - you have to be in solidarity with her because y’all report to the same boss.

[Impala64ssa]

Despite her noble (/s/) intentions. the commenter exhibits tunnel vision.
And along these same lines, should the classic oldies "STAND by Me", "I'm WALKIN'", "WALKING to New Orleans", not to mention all those great dance craze songs, The Twist, Mashed Potato Time, Mickey's Monkey(possible racist connotation here, also?). Maybe these should be retitled and the lyrics modified so we don't "offend" the "differently abled"?