Women for Fair Politics

[wlotus]

Women for Fair Politics has a new post up which some of you who have expressed your support may find encouraging. Here is a sample:

PLEASE KNOW that despite our diversity of views on how we will express our dismay over the way Hillary was treated, we all want the same thing--------to make sure that NO ONE ever has to go through what Hillary has been put through EVER AGAIN. Most of us feel that the Democrats need to be taught a lesson for their silence on the subject of sexism and the peril they will find themselves in for ignoring their most loyal base of voters. The good news is that there are so many of us. WE ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. We are in a unique position to carry out an important message.

[Our Big Tent, 5 June 2008]

I am very interested in seeing how this will all play out over the rest of the year.

On a different, but related note, a couple of people have asked me to filter my political posts. I will not do that, because these valuable posts would then not be accessible to the general public. (Besides, it is in poor taste to ask someone to change what/how they post in their own blog.) If you choose to continue reading my blog, you can create reading filters so that you will only see my blog when you choose to read it. You can learn how to do that in LiveJournal Support.

Comments

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe anyone has asked you to filter your political posts. They don't want to read them, but they want you to do the work of making sure they don't?

Fucking unbelievable. And laaaaazy. I've found that it's really easy to discern what a topic is going to be about within the first sentence or two, and even easier to PASS IT BY if it's not on your list of reading preferences. Doesn't strike me as a huge expectation to hold for intelligent people.

[verucas-chaos.livejournal.com]

Keep these posts coming. I like reading your posts when we spot on agree...I LOVE reading your posts that make me consider my own thinking. Sometimes it helps me to make a shift, sometimes it solidifies my own thinking. When I know I won't agree, I read anyway to keep myself open minded :-).

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

You have my full support.

[tuluum.livejournal.com]

agreed.

ugh.

[kuangning]

Post however and whatever you want; anyone who doesn't wish to see it can take steps to accomplish that.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

"I am a total stranger, so please be a dear and filter me from the things you care about."

The nerve...

[sharpchick.livejournal.com]

Filter your posts for someone else??

Well, all righty. . . the blog censors are alive and kicking huh?

They can just change the channel.

[ruthiebgr8.livejournal.com]

They need to grow up. Sorry. No nice way to say it.

Frankly, I don't want to live in a sanitized world. I do that too much at work. I enjoy different viewpoints. Perhaps that's why my best friend and I are friends. We have totally different political viewpoints but we respect each other enough to listen and appreciate the thought that the other has put into their choices.

Or I'm just too danged old.

[ciardhapagan.livejournal.com]

The unbelievable arrogance of someone telling you to filter your live journal. They don't want to read something they can do what you said and create their own filters.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, the Lazy Person of the year has been found.

I had someone once tell me that they had been disciplined at work because of the language on my blog, and while they wouldn't dream of telling me what to write, perhaps I could tone it down a little?

[rockbirthedme.livejournal.com]

Times three.

[newdaydawning.livejournal.com]

If I don't like, understand, or care, I know where my scroll button is. I may not always agree with what's being said in peoples' blogs, but I'll fight to the death for their right to say it.

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

Because obviously "don't read her blog while at work," is not an option, right?

[nimbrethil.livejournal.com]

For that matter, I remember when someone snidely told you that putting entries behind lj-cuts was so simple even a second grader could do it. Because obviously your entries are so long that he could cramp up his finger by scrolling so far down the page.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Evidently not.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that one. I think. There's been more than one.