I'll Call It Like I See It

by sheila morris

Category: sexism

  • for Men – I’ve got a secret for your eyes only

    for Men – I’ve got a secret for your eyes only


    Donald Trump is a 78-year-old man whose memory is much like mine because I’m also 78 years old and therein lies the first and only trait I share with the former president who is a convicted felon. I know for 100% certainty I shouldn’t be President of the United States. I can’t remember what I just had for breakfast this morning, and Donald Trump can’t remember slamming Detroit when he was in Detroit.

    And yet, guys, you overwhelmingly support him. I think I know why, and it’s not what you usually say when asked about your potential vote.

    “We need a strong leader” is code for women can’t be strong leaders.

    “Trump will make our borders more secure” is code for “illegal aliens” are taking our jobs.

    “Crime is out of control” is code for Harris is weak on criminals.

    And on and on.

    Psst. Here’s my theory for why men aren’t supporting Kamala Harris. Vice President Harris is a mixed-race woman, a female who doesn’t know her place.

    Think about it. Why else would men want to vote for an old man who struggles to know what day it is – much less can tell you what NATO stands for.

    That’s my secret, and I’m sticking with it. But I hope I’m wrong. Come on, man. Please. Think outside the Trump box.

  • women hang in there, no matter what – and now we VOTE

    women hang in there, no matter what – and now we VOTE


    We survive war and conquest; we survive colonization, acculturations,
    assimilation; we survive beating, rape, starvations, mutilation, sterilization,
    abandonment, neglect, death of our children, our loved ones, destruction of
    our land, our homes, our past, and our future. We survive, and we do more
    than just survive. We bond, we care, we fight, we teach, we nurse, we bear,
    we feed, we earn, we laugh, we love, we hang in there, no matter what.

    —— Paula Gunn Allen,

    The sacred hoop: recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions

    “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.”

    traditional Cheyenne saying

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    Photo by Vincent Tan on Pexels.com

    Speak up. Speak out. We’re not going back.

    VOTE

  • hey, girls, raise your hands if you feel better?

    hey, girls, raise your hands if you feel better?


    Jill Colvin of the Associated Press reported yesterday (September 25th.) on former president Trump’s remarks in Pennsylvania two days earlier.

    On Monday night, Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women, saying in battleground Pennsylvania that he will save them from fear and loneliness and they will no longer have to think about abortion.

    “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger. … You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today,” Trump said. “You will be protected, and I will be your protector.”

    Houston, we have a problem.

  • Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote on November 5th.

    Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote on November 5th.


    Time to resurrect my joy in limericks which reinforce a reminder of why I can’t write poetry. Sigh. The spirit is willing, but alas, the flesh is weak.

    Roe, Roe, Roe, the vote,

    and to the polls we’ll go.

    We won’t go back,

    we’ve made a pact

    that Dobbs we’ll overthrow.

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    Sing along with me all the way to November 5th.!

    Have a great Labor Day Weekend. Stay safe, and stay tuned.

  • mind your own damn business, says Governor Walz

    mind your own damn business, says Governor Walz


    Yesterday Governor Tim Walz became Vice President Kamala Harris’s personal choice to become her Veep in the 2024 campaign. Of course Pretty had vetted the governor before I even knew who he was. We both sat and watched their first campaign event together in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, the birthplace of America.

    When the topic is women’s reproductive rights, follow the yellow brick road repaired by a Wizard named Walz in his home state of Minnesota six months after the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court in June, 2022, that took away a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. Minnesota became the the first state to restore personal freedom of choice for women in January, 2023, an effort championed by its governor Tim Walz who understood from his own experience that personal health decisions must be personal.

    4-year-old granddaughter Ella watches at Aunt Coco’s house

    Daddy holds 2-year-old Molly while Uncle Seth watches with them

    both granddaughters will grow up with a woman President (hopefully!)

    I like Tim, or as I have decided to call him, Happy Tim. I also had a Civics teacher in junior high school who was a football coach, and I credit that course with sparking my interest in understanding the importance of separation of powers in our government. Coach K smiled a lot, too, but our football team wasn’t nearly as good as Coach Walz’s.

    Onward.

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    P.S. Thanks to Mama Caroline for pictures used here.