The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Riddle: I do 69% of the work. I earn 10% of the income. I own 1% of the stuff. Who am I?

    By jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 2:34pm |

     Oh, come on!   This is easy.  I am a woman.  Well, women, plural.

    Treat yourself to an hour *listening to the very delightful Kavita Ramdas, formerly President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, now visiting as a scholar at Stanford.

    Hint: When women get free, we all get free.

    By the way, if the calculus in the riddle doesn't raise outrage in your gorge, you are an irredeemable asshole.

     

    *audio is up.  Also, corrected spelling of the nice lady's name--my original betrays my hippie antecedants; I was thinking of Dick Alpert...

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    I'll check it out later when it is up. Thanks for the link!


    by emerson on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 2:40pm

    Audio is now up.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 4:40pm

    I am a woman.

    OMFG!  Ramona is a "precog"  Ramona!  Let's ditch this place, we have an appointment in Las Vegas...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:01pm

    Huh???


    by Ramona on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:23pm

    How soon we forget: Ramona (opensnark) "I always thought jollyroger was a girl" (closesnark) clearly you were foreshadowing this post-and I just thought you were making a juvenile crack...

    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:40pm

    Jolly, did you take that personally?  My goodness.  It was a takeoff on another post by Wolfie.  I said the same thing to him when he was going off on a really funny (ie: not serious) macho chest thumping.  As far as I know, he didn't take issue.  Lame joke.  Sorry.

    But I still don't get the connection.  Not that it matters.


    by Ramona on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:46pm

    don't get the connection.

     

    No worries--you provoked Lisb to out herself vouching for me, albeit I recognized it as a formulaic, not meant as veridical, reference.  I was just teasing about the open/close snark.

    My updated comment is provoked by reading my post to myself "I am a woman".

    Thus, Ramona, precognitively "sees" jollyroger posting two weeks in the future where he posts "I am a woman", this informing her post, "I always thought, etc."  Hence, I feign a greedy impulse, let's put this talent to use...

    (So I watched too much Twilight Zone, ok?)


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 6:01pm

    Jolly, your back and forth with LisB was fun to read.  Didn't mean to "provoke" anything.  (You two were pretty provocative all by yourselves!)

    I actually get it now.  All is well.


    by Ramona on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 6:04pm

    pretty provocative all by yourselves!)

     

    Wait for the video....


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 6:10pm

    Wait...I thought you destroyed that tape.

     


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 7:20pm

    It's the one we're gonna make this weekend...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 7:47pm

    Oh, that one!  Wink


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:00pm

    So does this mean you found the silk scarves and ping pong paddle?  I was just about to give up hope...


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:04pm

    ping pong paddle

    Yeah, but it's the kind with the rubber criss-cross pattern--you said no marks, so I'm gonna buy the sandpaper kind tomorrow.


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:11pm

    Sandpaper?  Are you trying to imply my bottom isn't smooth enough for you??  Hmmph.


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:18pm

    Well, you can't peel the rubber cross hatch off easily, whereas the sandpaper comes off with water...(how, you may ask, do I know that..).


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:21pm

    We run a respectable joint here, ya know.


    by Donal on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:28pm

    You do? 


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:31pm

    Says so right on the ping pong balls ...


    by Donal on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:35pm

    Sealed  You said "balls". 


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:41pm

    LOL!


    by Ramona on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:53pm

    Want to hear something scary Ramona? I actually knew what he / she was talking about.

    Anyway, I think he is joking.

    Now, I am going to go listen to this audio.


    by emerson on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:49pm

    Me, too.


    by Ramona on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 6:02pm

    Me three, now that I'm finally home from the office where I did 100% of the work and only earned about 10% of my former income, after taking out the money I owe in rent for the property I own 0% of.


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 7:25pm

    What a great attitude Ramdas has, eh?  While listening to the audio, I suddenly found myself remembering all the things that Hillary Clinton did as First Lady and then as Senator in NY.  It made me realize how little credit I used to give her, when she obviously has done a lot for women's (and children's) rights. 

    Good post, Rog.  I, as a woman (and knowing that you are not one, heh heh heh) thank you for it.


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 8:15pm

    Well, the numbers really shocked me, and I'm widely regarded as beyond shocking. I had sort of absorbed the old "women make 60 cents on the dollar for the same job, and now we've inched up to 72 cents, or something..." but shit!

     

     When you talk about 69% of the labor, we've gone way past "how do we split the household chores fairly", ya feel me?

     Arriving from there to the 10% income, and I'm feeling really bad...only to get to the 1% number and, "oh wow."


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:34pm

    You forgot: I hold up half the sky.

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    Re: When women get free, we all get free.

    One of my favorite related stories, an example that it's not always as impossible as they say.

    Of course, in that case,you could argue they needed a tsunami to get things moving. Smile


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:11pm

    they needed a tsunami

    Yeah, that about figures...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:37pm

    Parenthetically, it's useful to ruminate on the persistence of the patriarchy even in Hindu and Buddhist cultures, where the pernicious influence of Yahweh is not a factor.  And don't let's even start with Confucianism (foot-binding, yechh!)

     

    Let's face it ladies, you scare the living shit out of men.  Well, the prospect of your *unrestrained sexuality does, anyway.

     

    *which I find really odd, because unrestrained sexuality is a good thing... isn't it?


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:47pm

    unrestrained sexuality is a good thing... isn't it?

     

    I've always thought so.  And we have the videos to prove it.

    Wait....we have to exclude the one with the silk scarves in it, of course.  Nothing unrestrained in that one, except you.  Tongue out

     


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:55pm

    silk scarves are one thing, handcuffs are entirely another.

    Let's just say that if you've ever been in handcuffs *for real, they lose their allure as an erotic accessory...

     

    *Of course, these days with the zip ties and all, a cop probably wouldn't even know how to work an old fashioned pair of cuffs...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 10:04pm

    No, no cuffs.  I like to wear silver bracelets but they don't require any keys. 


    by LisB on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 10:34pm