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Hey Wally — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:59:40 +0000

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Thankee Mam, will do.

David Seaton — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:35:38 +0000

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Thankee Mam, will do.

The wife's artwork is

LisB — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:52:40 +0000

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The wife's artwork is amazing, David. Please tell her so, from Lis. Thanks.

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David Seaton — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:26:02 +0000

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wws — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:16:00 +0000

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David:

How I admire your consistency. Refusing to acknowledge, much less address, the substantive point raised -- i.e., your unrepentant willingness to serve up flagrant factual innaccuracy in favor of florid hyperbole in your blogs. Am I surprised? Sadly, no. Nonetheless, because you are a self-proclaimed "professional" journalist, I (as a former journalist) find it curious and saddening that journalistic integrity (as people our age were taught it) is apparently not a concern in Seaton blog world; there, you boast, "what matters is only the number of 'hits' and 'links' that may be generated."

Which is presumably why, rather than engaging in a serious discussion about journalistic standards, you instead offer three blatant provocations to feminist sensibilities:

1) you inaccurately, though slyly assert that the "only" alternative to calling your spouse "the wife" was to call her "my old lady;"

2) you resort, once again, to feminist baiting in derogatory gender/sexual terms; last go-round your response to my calling you a "blog hogger" was to refer to me as a man; this time, you issue an invitation (to someone you refer to as a man?) to "osculate your fundament" ....

3) more importantly, you inaccurately generalize and denigrate "middle class women" as people more concerned with PC terminology than women interested in effecting real change....

In other words, as Stardust so succinctly observed, you just keep digging.

Odd, isn't it? That the man who entirely scorns and rejects the notion of being "PC" is the same man who then immediately turns around to lecture middle class women on what they may consider "correct" issues in which to become involved to call themselves feminists. Ha!

Apparently, David, the support of middle class women on such issues as, say: scholarships/grants for women, political candidates aware of feminist concerns, legislation that affects both physical and mental health issues for women, etc. are not issues important enough to be on the list of endeavors worthy of a woman's time; rather, in Seaton world, apparently only issues that involve childcare are worthy of a woman's time .... leading one to surmise, David, that women themselves, as individuals, are as unimportant in Seaton land 2010 as they have been in ages past; their only viable function is, apparently, still the traditional one of devoting their lives to the well-being of children.

However, even by your arbitrary and limited standards for correct feminist action, maybe -- just maybe -- as a woman who, when she had resources, personally funded a battered womens' shelter, staffed it, and provided a warehouse for donated furniture/household goods to give women and their children of all ethnicities some sense of dignity in starting over from scratch ..... hmmm, maybe I am someone who qualifies, even by your standards, as a middle class woman who may call herself a feminist.

As I am a woman who is now fully qualified to call you an equal opportunity sexist. For I find it too hilarious that you offered the same person you recently called a man the opportunity to "osculate your fundament." Noooh thank you... but as every good southern woman would say: "thank you so much for asking." LOL.

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David Seaton — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:10:12 +0000

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Ah, Dave, mi amigo; I love it

we are stardust — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:12:58 +0000

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Ah, Dave, mi amigo; I love it when you just dig yourself in deeper while 'not apologizing'. It's awful damned entertaining. Thanks. LOL!

Or shoot them where they

cmaukonen — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:27:42 +0000

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Or shoot them where they stand. Sieg Heil.....

LOL, the business about

David Seaton — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:09:32 +0000

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LOL, the business about "THE" wife is stylistic. In my first draft it was "my" wife (BTW, is the possessive "MY" less machista than the definite article "THE"?), but I saw that in the following paragraph that when we went to the second big demonstration I referred to my darling as "my" wife, so I went back to jazz up the first reference to this talented and adorable creature. I like the way "the wife and I" got on a bus and went to "storm the Winter Palace" rolled off the tongue, there is something so prosaic about it. The other alternative would have been to refer to my baby as "my old lady" and believe me if I ever referred to her as an "old" anything she would have my liver for lunch.

Understand that I am not apologizing. I think "politically correct" is so idiotic as to be beyond contempt and I refuse to be called on it. Anyone who insists in doing so is welcome to osculate my fundament. The English language is much too juicy to be corseted by nonsense like that.

IMHO true feminism would be to fight for free child care centers for working single mothers and not worry so much about the language used. I see a lot of middle class ladies worried about this terminology stuff and not worrying nearly enough about what happens to their sisters below the poverty line. Being "left" is about class, not about sex. PC is petit bourgeois.

It would be interesting to

Beetlejuice — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:17:49 +0000

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It would be interesting to see the look on tea-bagger faces when they take a townhall hissy fit to the streets and are confronted by armed troops ready to kick their butts and haul them off to a makeshift detention center.