Gamestop is trying to brand themselves as “girl friendly”. They’re doing this by helping women set up Wii parties, encouraging women to play a specific game.
Uh-oh.
This can’t end well, can it? What sort of pink, frilly barely functional game do you think they picked? Madden. I kid you not– John Madden football.
I’m not positive I understand the logic behind this exact choice, but who cares! Madden is fun, there’s a Wii in damned near every house, and bravo for not giving into gender stereotyping. Any Birdies wanna play?
“For young ladies, we have a ministry called Vessels of Honor. It’s about life skills for young women. We try to be more proactive than reactive, so we do counseling to prevent teen pregnancy, and even if you do become a teen parent ,you can still succeed. We have a youth service every second Friday of each month.”
Oh no he didn’t. He did NOT just say that. He did NOT just use a word which has been used to belittle and oppress women for centuries in the name of religion. I’m sorry, Mr. Pastor, you have lost all credibility. I am more than just a Vessel. I, too, can apply for jobs and do more than push out babies.
And besides that, the term “vessel” used to describe a woman’s role in reproduction is damaging and misleading. Now we have science that tells us that women do MORE than just carry the child of a man. We actually CONTRIBUTE to the entire process. Half of that child’s genes are from the mother. I understand the desire to live in the dark ages (well, sort of), but this sort of language is really not appropriate.
You’ll notice the lack of any career-based programs for young women. This is even more appalling because it is important, if not necessary in our society right now to have women in the workforce, both individually and for the economy as a whole, but I suppose he wants us in our place.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that crazy religious people are sexist and destructive, but I always am.
She had a tough job with this speech. On the one wrist, she had to acknowledge that her supporters had done a magnificent job. Then she had to explain why Obama will make a fantastic president.
“The way to continue our fight now – to accomplish the goals for which we stand – is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States. ”
The way she said it, with such obvious passion and sincerity in her voice, she means it.
“I understand that we all know this has been a tough fight. The Democratic Party is a family, and it’s now time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish, and the country we love. ”
Absolutely, 100% the right thing to say. The Party isn’t the “Hillary Clinton Show”, it is about a certain set of ideals– ideals which both Hillary and Barack share. Obama has the standard, let’s line up behind his charge.
And, as a final swing, she reminds all voters how good they had it when we last had a Democratic president:
“We made tremendous progress during the 90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy, and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world. Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years if we had a Democratic president. Think about the lost opportunities of these past seven years – on the environment and the economy, on health care and civil rights, on education, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Imagine how far we could’ve come, how much we could’ve achieved if we had just had a Democrat in the White House.”
I’ll leave it off there. Hillary: you did good. And if– gods forbid!– things don’t work out for Barack, I’ll gleefully pull the lever for you in 2012…
