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9 months ago
in Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women on The New Mexico Independent
Trip:
Thanks for your reply. As for "someone named Scot" you seem to imply with "someone named" that it is somehow wrong to be named "Scot" and/or I am hiding behind this quite obviously made up name. Well, being named "Scot" might be a terrible burden to carry, but I guess my folks felt I could handle it when they named me that. My parents having the last name Key, that would make my name "Scot Key". I would therefore be "someone named Scot Key". As awful as that may be, rest assured I am not "someone named Scot" but merely...Scot.
And speaking of my folks, my mom is Church of Christ, one of my sisters is an evangelical and I can play the "my relatives are more evangelical than your relatives" game if that's what you want. Whether these relatives of mine are "good, solid people" might be up for debate, but anyone, evangelical or otherwise, who needs the Palin candidacy to finally come around to thinking women should be able to do anything outside the home is a socio-political Neanderthal, imho.
My relatives who may feel this way included. Trust me, we don't talk politics much when I go back home for a visit. In fact, my mother's only question in this regard on my last trip home was "Is it true that Obama is a Muslim?" I only wish this were not a true story.
Thanks for your reply. As for "someone named Scot" you seem to imply with "someone named" that it is somehow wrong to be named "Scot" and/or I am hiding behind this quite obviously made up name. Well, being named "Scot" might be a terrible burden to carry, but I guess my folks felt I could handle it when they named me that. My parents having the last name Key, that would make my name "Scot Key". I would therefore be "someone named Scot Key". As awful as that may be, rest assured I am not "someone named Scot" but merely...Scot.
And speaking of my folks, my mom is Church of Christ, one of my sisters is an evangelical and I can play the "my relatives are more evangelical than your relatives" game if that's what you want. Whether these relatives of mine are "good, solid people" might be up for debate, but anyone, evangelical or otherwise, who needs the Palin candidacy to finally come around to thinking women should be able to do anything outside the home is a socio-political Neanderthal, imho.
My relatives who may feel this way included. Trust me, we don't talk politics much when I go back home for a visit. In fact, my mother's only question in this regard on my last trip home was "Is it true that Obama is a Muslim?" I only wish this were not a true story.
9 months ago
in Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women on The New Mexico Independent
Let me work on the headline of this column....
Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women held by sexist religious fundamentalists
better...still not perfect, let's try again
Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women by those stuck in the 17th Century
hmmmm...I'm gonna keep working on it. By the way I see website for evangelicals posit a number of 100 million, but a more objective report via the Council on Foreign Relations website says:
"Their adherents are estimated to range from 40 million to 75 million, a widely varying figure because of the lack of institutional identity, such as that which exists in mainline Protestant denominations or in the Roman Catholic Church."
http://www.cfr.org/publication/11341/
P.S.: Mr. Haussaman's column begins "Contrary to what many on the left are saying, the Sarah Palin pick has the potential to positively and dramatically shift attitudes toward women in this country." It seems to me this is one convoluted sentence. Is the author saying that "the left" is wrong because it already embraces gender equality and doesn't have their minds stuck in some antiquated mindset that was discarded by "the left" decades, if not centuries ago? Is that a bad thing to have discarded this mindset? Is it wrong for "the left" to point out that Palin is for gender issues what G.W. Bush has been for "edumucation"? Wouldn't another, better way, to start this column be: "What the left doesn't understand is that there are still a buttload of Neanderthals in this country, and they are actually hung up on the ancient question of whether women should just churn butter and churn out babies."?
Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women held by sexist religious fundamentalists
better...still not perfect, let's try again
Palin pick helps change attitudes toward women by those stuck in the 17th Century
hmmmm...I'm gonna keep working on it. By the way I see website for evangelicals posit a number of 100 million, but a more objective report via the Council on Foreign Relations website says:
"Their adherents are estimated to range from 40 million to 75 million, a widely varying figure because of the lack of institutional identity, such as that which exists in mainline Protestant denominations or in the Roman Catholic Church."
http://www.cfr.org/publication/11341/
P.S.: Mr. Haussaman's column begins "Contrary to what many on the left are saying, the Sarah Palin pick has the potential to positively and dramatically shift attitudes toward women in this country." It seems to me this is one convoluted sentence. Is the author saying that "the left" is wrong because it already embraces gender equality and doesn't have their minds stuck in some antiquated mindset that was discarded by "the left" decades, if not centuries ago? Is that a bad thing to have discarded this mindset? Is it wrong for "the left" to point out that Palin is for gender issues what G.W. Bush has been for "edumucation"? Wouldn't another, better way, to start this column be: "What the left doesn't understand is that there are still a buttload of Neanderthals in this country, and they are actually hung up on the ancient question of whether women should just churn butter and churn out babies."?
1 year ago
in Bernalillo County Commission race: Conflict or coincidence? on The New Mexico Independent
Thanks for the story. We down here in the SV could use all the Valley news we can get. No real opinion on the right/wrong here, but a couple of suggestions:
Art de la Cruz does have a website (to replace the pdf CC list you have):
http://artdelacruz.com/index.php
The Cordova picture is a bit large, at least on my Firefox, the pixels stretched quite a bit.
More South Valley news please! Thanks...and I'm already feeling bad about my "suggestions".
scot
Art de la Cruz does have a website (to replace the pdf CC list you have):
http://artdelacruz.com/index.php
The Cordova picture is a bit large, at least on my Firefox, the pixels stretched quite a bit.
More South Valley news please! Thanks...and I'm already feeling bad about my "suggestions".
scot
1 year ago
in Bernalillo County Commission race: Conflict or coincidence? on The New Mexico Independent
Thanks for the story. We down here in the SV could use all the Valley news we can get. No real opinion on the right/wrong here, but a couple of suggestions:
Art de la Cruz does have a website (to replace the pdf CC list you have):
http://artdelacruz.com/index.php
The Cordova picture is a bit large, at least on my Firefox, the pixels stretched quite a bit.
More South Valley news please! Thanks...and I'm already feeling bad about my "suggestions".
scot
Art de la Cruz does have a website (to replace the pdf CC list you have):
http://artdelacruz.com/index.php
The Cordova picture is a bit large, at least on my Firefox, the pixels stretched quite a bit.
More South Valley news please! Thanks...and I'm already feeling bad about my "suggestions".
scot
