Women are People, Too

Free Dominion ^ | November 6, 2007 12:46 AM | Connie Fournier

[backhoe]

This very concise, articulate ( not to mention, pointed ) article is by the co-sysop of our Canadian sister site.

Give it a read- you'll be glad you did.

[free_life]

Excellent

[goldstategop]

She's a webmistress for our Canadian sister site, Free Dominion. The truth of the matter is women in the Western World were liberated a century ago. The feminazis keep on re-fighting already settled battles instead of fighting for women's rights in parts of the world were they have none.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Interesting Times]

I met Connie and her husband at the activism training week the Free Republic Network hosted in Las Vegas a few years ago. They were great: well-informed, committed and razor sharp.

Incidentally, the keynote speaker there was Laura Ingraham, whose fees are undoubtedly beyond the reach of volunteer grassroots groups these days.

[Bob J]

Nice article Connie! (Hope she’s reading here!)

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking folks- the Meatworld interface ( garage door broke- no way out until it got fixed, dang it ) kept me away all day.

Connie speaks for a lot of women ( like my wife, Miss Emily ) and says things I'd like to have said.

The official "feminist movement" does not represent normal women- they are a bunch of angry malcontents.

[Gondring]

the Meatworld interface ( garage door broke- no way out until it got fixed, dang it ) kept me away all day

Welcome back to Cyberspace. :-)

[backhoe]

Welcome back to Cyberspace. :-)

Thanks- Lordy, what a circus getting a guy with a truck and tools out to the house- yesterday, they were "scheduling"-- I called at nine, they called back at five. Once the repairman showed up today at lunch, it was fast-- then I had to do all the stuff I couldn't get done yesterday or this morning. Aggh!

[Bob J]

It was quite an event, an encouraging successful first attempt at that sort of thing. If they continued maybe it wouldn’t have been only KOS to get presidential candidates to internet forum get togethers.

Looking back on the history of the FRN now, I’d say it was a fair trade, national activism network, annual conventions, projects like Winter Soldier, nationwide protests...in exchange for screaming obscenities at a couple of Code Pink hags every week.

[bray]

Patricia Ireland is fine with Mooselimb women being Chattle. Hey, Saddamn’s rape rooms never bothered her.

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops

[trisham]

Well done, Connie! I do hope you’re reading this.

[backhoe]

Appreciate your looking- I got the door fixed; now I’m trying to get The World’s Best Dog© to come back in the house...

[Mercat]

I remember two moments in time when I realized that the feminists do not speak for me. I’m 59 and a lawyer so given that context.... when I was still an undergraduate in the late sixties, I went to a meeting which was supposed to be about feminism and it was instead about doing ones own vaginal exam. I actually think it was about trying to get young women to show old saggy women their parts. I declined. The second time was in a Taco Bell parking lot at the beginning of the first Gulf War and my dear husband finally talked me into listening to Rush Limbaugh. I’ve never looked back. The only feminists I’ve even considered in my camp have been the Feminists for Life. So, these elitist weirdo rich b*tches (and trust me I know a lot of them professionally) do not speak for me either.

[conniew]

Thanks, everyone! This was my first guest column for noapologies.ca...I’m really glad you liked it! :-)

Some of the best times in my life have been when I’ve had the opportunity to meet FReepers like Interesting Times and BobJ.

If we can swing it, Mark and I really want to go to CPAC this year, so we hope to see some of you again.

[backhoe]

Thanks, everyone! This was my first guest column for noapologies.ca...I’m really glad you liked it! :-) Some of the best times in my life have been when I’ve had the opportunity to meet FReepers like Interesting Times and BobJ. If we can swing it, Mark and I really want to go to CPAC this year, so we hope to see some of you again.

Connie, what I call "the alleged better half"-- Miss Emily, the wife- liked it, too.

Years ago, when she was but a child in college, the local feminist organization's representative approached her with an offer of membership, stating, "you're just the kind of woman we want..."

And she was quite angered, retorting,

"What- you think I'm a Lesbian? You think I hate men? Babies, too?"

That's the kind of impression those angry gals in the "feminist" bunch made, years ago, to the average woman.

They don't speak for her, at all.

They have their own malcontented agenda to promote, and nothing else...

[backhoe]

I remember two moments in time when I realized that the feminists do not speak for me...

See reply #15 for my interpretation of my distaff side's take on this...

I was all for the feminist movement when it seemed to be about equal treatment, and equal pay for the same job- what fair and honest person wouldn't be? Nobody likes arbitrary discrimination.

Where they lost me was the realization that they didn't like men, marriage, or children very much-- things the average woman, or at least most of the women I know and care about, think are very fine, indeed.

That, and the air of perpetual anger and grievance lingering about them...

[trisham]

Nice to meet you. :) Thanks for stopping by!

[Doctor Raoul]

Looking back on the history of the FRN now, I’d say it was a fair trade, national activism network, annual conventions, projects like Winter Soldier, nationwide protests...in exchange for screaming obscenities at a couple of Code Pink hags every week.

That's right Bob, you're so impotent that a dozen people managed to stop the "World's Greatest Idea".

And the best thing about it, we didn't have to do a thing.

[sauropod]

Thanks for the article Connie!

[BufordP]

For the love of Pete! No one was listening. Now ya done did it. Disturbed the poo[j].