It is time for every young girl and boy, every mother and father, every man and woman to yell STOP, you have gone too far with the vile intrusion on a young girl's most personal and monumental change of life, period. I tremble that a state would condone such madness. Even though I had been told what to expect, I remember how difficult it was for me to let my mother know "what was happening to me." She, of course, was reassuring and helpful in the technicalities required for this transition. I cannot imagine, at all, that I would have been willing to share such natural occurrences of life with busybody people who had no concern for me. Whose only objective was to put girls under the thumbs of masculine misogyny. Yi yi yi yi. What are we to do? Can life for girls and women be any more vile and despicable? And to think that maybe even some women in Florida are following in lock step with the cretons. Fathers and Mothers, please rise up. Protest this madness.
I don’t think Merrick Garland will ever prosecute Trump. I saw the repulsive Jim Jordan w/Chuck Todd today, dodging as usual. The McGonigal story weakens my faith in institutions further. MTG now has assignments on crucial committees. DeSantis seems to be getting away with whatever intrusive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant moves he pulls. He is Trump with a better education and sans women on the side.The murder of Tyre Nichols was beyond heinous... my heart is breaking this week. My first vote was in Nixon v. McGovern: I have no hope that I will see a female President in my lifetime. I just wish Sally Yates was AG.
Could almost go paragraph by paragraph with a Comment.
Wanting to know about girls periods! Who the hells business is that?
Jim Jordon and his committee that is going to be a real pain in the ass. 2 years of political propaganda. I see a lot of deep breathing and calming remedies in my future.. thank you in advance for keeping sane with writings.
Joyce....maybe you could devise some kind of Chickens Ground Hog Day. Put out a special treat and see how long it takes them to scratch around and eat it. You can invent your own outcome for winter.
I cannot express anything but extreme shock at the info on checking girls' periods. So horrendous. Another sign of the rise of the Christian Taliban.
Other films to recommend - though not fun like "Groundhog Day" - are "good night, and good luck," "Trumbo" w/ Bryan Cranston, and "All the Presidents Men". They are about speaking truth to power and standing up to tyranny. Great acting, true stories, huge lessons for us.
I honestly don't know if I can take anymore of this fascism Joyce. It feels worse than ever before. It's eating at my soul and mental health. I'm about to have my 52nd birthday and I don't see a bright future for me or anyone else who cares about democracy and equality. Everywhere I look in red states across America they are attempting to erase my entire LGBTQ community and overall really anyone who isn't a white cishet MAGA GOP voting Christian. When I read this story today, that was the final straw. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-school-nazis-telegram-dissident-saxon_n_63d596c4e4b01a43638e6a0a that broke me. We are backsliding in every way imaginable and those in positions of power won't do anything to stop it.
Groundhog Day. So glad that you mentioned that occasion. The other topics are too awful for me to linger on 'til daylight. For several years, I had a small party of fun-loving adults at my house that featured pin-the-shadow-on-the-groundhog. Thanks for jogging my memory. I need good memories nowadays. They kindle the embers of hope for us humankind.
To keep my mind clear: (1) any way to donate to a fund (you?) to get this wonderful book into the hands of EVERY child in Hoover, whose parents will allow it? I have been involved with an extremely poor "Black" school in a town a couple of hours from Charleston. The children there have cherished every book I've donated. I've focused on every book by a Black author and/or about Black children that I could find. There are dozens. (2) ASKING GIRLS ABOUT THEIR PERIODS??!!! I can't believe it!! Not in MY country! Not in the U.S.A.! Do they also want bloody tampons, so they can be sure the girls aren't lying? This horrifies and sickens me! (3) So we take yet another step toward "1984". "The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government". Those words chill me to the bone. As with everything done by the repuklicant party, it is pure projection (e.g., Bill Barr's actions) onto the Biden administration. How much damage will Gym & Co. be allowed to do? Hopefully, kev mack is so strung up by the radicals in his party -- suggesting a federal increase in the sales tax! -- that the whole thing will just collapse into a pile of nothing. Fingers crossed, anyway.
I was born in france a long time ago, the idea that a school could ask about my period is so ludicrous that you would nearly die of laughter there.
We had classes in geography and history starting six grade, which would continue till senior year. The idea that we could delete a section of history belonging to our country would be ludicrous as well.
I feel considering these two facts, plus the added one that a former president having fomented a coup may still be a candidate make watching these developments here as mind bending as possible 🤦♀️😂
Love the small action of reading protest. Going to share with my small Postcardia gang.
Also... ground hogs are all about the salad. It being minus 3 right now, it might be good to celebrate a collation of grasses, clover, alfalfa, and dandelions a bit later. (Not unlike the TG/Christmas meals my twin would take to the firefighter camp in August because they were seasonal workers! Which reminds me... celebration of any winter hols can be moved with abandon to any time of the year you want. I miss my twin.)
I just bought this book. I was an English teacher for 10 years. I could not take the parents anymore. Half the books I taught have now been banned. Kill A Mockingbird? Really?
I am very sensitive to what is happening in Florida. My granddaughters will be forced to submit to the Gov clearly abusing his power. How creepy that he would even enter a conversation with teen girls about their periods!
Sounds like someone is up to some, "Good Trouble"! Go for it!
It's difficult to come up with comparably irrelevant, yet intrusive! inqiuries for male atheletes, but perhaps asking, "How many times do you grab your crotch during a any single game?" and "Does it ever give you pleasure? " would be a place to start.
It is time for every young girl and boy, every mother and father, every man and woman to yell STOP, you have gone too far with the vile intrusion on a young girl's most personal and monumental change of life, period. I tremble that a state would condone such madness. Even though I had been told what to expect, I remember how difficult it was for me to let my mother know "what was happening to me." She, of course, was reassuring and helpful in the technicalities required for this transition. I cannot imagine, at all, that I would have been willing to share such natural occurrences of life with busybody people who had no concern for me. Whose only objective was to put girls under the thumbs of masculine misogyny. Yi yi yi yi. What are we to do? Can life for girls and women be any more vile and despicable? And to think that maybe even some women in Florida are following in lock step with the cretons. Fathers and Mothers, please rise up. Protest this madness.
I commented earlier that Hoover has the most diverse student body in the state. This move is so obviously racist and uncalled for that it sicken me🤢
I love the idea of passing out copies of a banned book in the place where it is banned.
I don’t think Merrick Garland will ever prosecute Trump. I saw the repulsive Jim Jordan w/Chuck Todd today, dodging as usual. The McGonigal story weakens my faith in institutions further. MTG now has assignments on crucial committees. DeSantis seems to be getting away with whatever intrusive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant moves he pulls. He is Trump with a better education and sans women on the side.The murder of Tyre Nichols was beyond heinous... my heart is breaking this week. My first vote was in Nixon v. McGovern: I have no hope that I will see a female President in my lifetime. I just wish Sally Yates was AG.
Could almost go paragraph by paragraph with a Comment.
Wanting to know about girls periods! Who the hells business is that?
Jim Jordon and his committee that is going to be a real pain in the ass. 2 years of political propaganda. I see a lot of deep breathing and calming remedies in my future.. thank you in advance for keeping sane with writings.
Joyce....maybe you could devise some kind of Chickens Ground Hog Day. Put out a special treat and see how long it takes them to scratch around and eat it. You can invent your own outcome for winter.
I cannot express anything but extreme shock at the info on checking girls' periods. So horrendous. Another sign of the rise of the Christian Taliban.
Clearly, for Groundhog Day, you must eat something that repeats on you! 🤣
Other films to recommend - though not fun like "Groundhog Day" - are "good night, and good luck," "Trumbo" w/ Bryan Cranston, and "All the Presidents Men". They are about speaking truth to power and standing up to tyranny. Great acting, true stories, huge lessons for us.
I honestly don't know if I can take anymore of this fascism Joyce. It feels worse than ever before. It's eating at my soul and mental health. I'm about to have my 52nd birthday and I don't see a bright future for me or anyone else who cares about democracy and equality. Everywhere I look in red states across America they are attempting to erase my entire LGBTQ community and overall really anyone who isn't a white cishet MAGA GOP voting Christian. When I read this story today, that was the final straw. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-school-nazis-telegram-dissident-saxon_n_63d596c4e4b01a43638e6a0a that broke me. We are backsliding in every way imaginable and those in positions of power won't do anything to stop it.
Groundhog Day. So glad that you mentioned that occasion. The other topics are too awful for me to linger on 'til daylight. For several years, I had a small party of fun-loving adults at my house that featured pin-the-shadow-on-the-groundhog. Thanks for jogging my memory. I need good memories nowadays. They kindle the embers of hope for us humankind.
To keep my mind clear: (1) any way to donate to a fund (you?) to get this wonderful book into the hands of EVERY child in Hoover, whose parents will allow it? I have been involved with an extremely poor "Black" school in a town a couple of hours from Charleston. The children there have cherished every book I've donated. I've focused on every book by a Black author and/or about Black children that I could find. There are dozens. (2) ASKING GIRLS ABOUT THEIR PERIODS??!!! I can't believe it!! Not in MY country! Not in the U.S.A.! Do they also want bloody tampons, so they can be sure the girls aren't lying? This horrifies and sickens me! (3) So we take yet another step toward "1984". "The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government". Those words chill me to the bone. As with everything done by the repuklicant party, it is pure projection (e.g., Bill Barr's actions) onto the Biden administration. How much damage will Gym & Co. be allowed to do? Hopefully, kev mack is so strung up by the radicals in his party -- suggesting a federal increase in the sales tax! -- that the whole thing will just collapse into a pile of nothing. Fingers crossed, anyway.
Thank you Joyce, as ever.
I was born in france a long time ago, the idea that a school could ask about my period is so ludicrous that you would nearly die of laughter there.
We had classes in geography and history starting six grade, which would continue till senior year. The idea that we could delete a section of history belonging to our country would be ludicrous as well.
I feel considering these two facts, plus the added one that a former president having fomented a coup may still be a candidate make watching these developments here as mind bending as possible 🤦♀️😂
I hope the chickens are fine .
Love the small action of reading protest. Going to share with my small Postcardia gang.
Also... ground hogs are all about the salad. It being minus 3 right now, it might be good to celebrate a collation of grasses, clover, alfalfa, and dandelions a bit later. (Not unlike the TG/Christmas meals my twin would take to the firefighter camp in August because they were seasonal workers! Which reminds me... celebration of any winter hols can be moved with abandon to any time of the year you want. I miss my twin.)
I just bought this book. I was an English teacher for 10 years. I could not take the parents anymore. Half the books I taught have now been banned. Kill A Mockingbird? Really?
I am very sensitive to what is happening in Florida. My granddaughters will be forced to submit to the Gov clearly abusing his power. How creepy that he would even enter a conversation with teen girls about their periods!
Sounds like someone is up to some, "Good Trouble"! Go for it!
It's difficult to come up with comparably irrelevant, yet intrusive! inqiuries for male atheletes, but perhaps asking, "How many times do you grab your crotch during a any single game?" and "Does it ever give you pleasure? " would be a place to start.