Women and guns

I never thought I was a rare breed – a woman who actually enjoys shooting and takes personal responsibility for her own safety by having a concealed carry permit and actually carrying a gun.  But apparently, according to this guy, I’m some kind of an anomaly.  While examining the allegedly paltry number of women who attend NRA conventions, this particular misogynistic tool somehow decided that:

1 – Shooting sports will never be popular with women until women start worrying more about their guns than about their lipstick.

2 – Women won’t take any rational steps to defend themselves with the most effective tools on the market, because they’re too worried about getting dirty, smelly and whether or not their pretty little gun and its accessories match their shoes.

3 – Women won’t find training with their firearm as important as looking sexy in their earplugs.

No, I’m not even kidding.  Apparently, this tool lost his penis (which also doubles as his brain) somewhere in the depths of his desk drawer, which is likely filled with paraphernalia meant to make him look more masculine… you know… deer urine spray, a Zippo lighter, a body building magazine, along with a dog-eared, sticky copy of Maxim, and a small comb for that cheesy mustache.

Gee, am I generalizing?

How’s it feel?

Women & Guns

I’ve never been someone who screams for attention.  I write this blog for me – not for anyone else.  I don’t take advertising dollars.  I don’t plop my links down at more popular blogs just to get some traffic.  If my friends decide to link to my blog, I’m grateful, but I don’t live for traffic.  I don’t care if people read or not.  That’s why I sometimes use language that is… well… somewhat salty.  If people like what I write, I am grateful.  If they don’t, so what?

But this is one time I will toot my own horn.  Recently, a writer named Genie Jennings interviewed me for an article in Women & Guns magazine.  She used a combination of interview questions and passages from the very first article that I ever had published – The Moment – to write a very nice story about me.  It’s very sweet, and she did a great job. 

I’m sort of humbled, because she makes me sound a lot better than I am.  Yes, I served in the Army, both on active duty and in the National Guard.  Yes, I’m a mom.  Yes, I’m a blogger and a writer. It doesn’t sound nearly as impressive as when Genie writes about me, but I thank her for her kindness.

How to quickly piss me off, pt. 2

You can tell David Codrea and I have known one another for a few years.  He really knows how to get my panties in a bunch.  Just mention women, religious zealots, abuse and defenselessness and my blood begins to boil.

The religious instruction on how male (and I use that term loosely) members of the Religion of Piss should beat their wives is straight out of the bowels of hell!

“One of the husband’s rights is to discipline his wife if she is
disobedient. What does the word ‘disobedience’ mean? Disobedience is to
leave the house without the husband’s permission, to refuse to obey the
husband in bed, to speak to the husband impolitely, or to do the
opposite of what he likes. All these are forms of disobedience.

[...]

“The first measure for reforming a disobedient wife is to admonish her.
The husband should talk to her gently, reminding her of God, and
reminding her that if she wants to enter Paradise, she must obey him.
He must tell her that by pleasing her husband, she pleases God, and
that his rights supersede the rights of her parents.”

[...]

“Okay, if admonishing doesn’t work, the next measure is
‘banishment.’ Some say that the wife should be banished from his bed,
while others say he should refrain from having sex with her, although I
do not agree with the latter view, because having sex is one of the
rights of the husband, so how can he discipline her by depriving
himself of sex?

“It’s enough if he refrains from smiling and
saying nice things to her, and instead, he gives her the cold shoulder,
but he has the right to have sex with her, even during banishment.”

[...]

“Okay, he’s tried admonishing, he’s tried banishment
but nothing. Her emotions are numb, and she says: Good riddance. So
what is the next measure? “…and beat them.” Beating. The Prophet
Muhammad said that the beatings should be light, and that one should
avoid the face, or the sensitive areas, which might lead to broken
bones, or might leave a mark that would spoil her beauty, whether on
her face or anywhere on her body. Beatings that draw blood, or break
bones, or leave a scar, a black mark on the skin, or any obvious mark,
which would make people know that she was harshly beaten this is
forbidden.

“How should the beatings go? Maybe a light slap on her
shoulder, or maybe a not-so-light pinch, or a kind of gentle shove. He
should make her feel that he wants to reform her, and let her know that
he is displeased with her. It is like saying: None of the measures that
work with sensitive people work with you. A word would be enough for
any wife with lofty morals, but with you, words do not help.

“Then
he attempts a new direction, appealing to her femininity and emotions,
by making her feel that he doesn’t want her or love her. When this
doesn’t work, he says to her: With you, I have reached a stage which is
only appropriate for inhumane people the stage of beating.

“Beating
is one of the punishments of religious law. What kind of people are
beaten? Virgin adulterers, both men and women, are beaten as a means of
discipline. Who else is beaten? A person who committed an offense and
was sentenced by the judge to beatings. Who else is beaten? Someone who
committed a crime. By beating his wife, the husband is saying: You’ve
committed a grave sin that merits beatings.”

Oh, yeah.  They’re peaceful and tolerant, alright.  They indoctrinate young girls into a life of subservience – a life that makes them little more than cattle in the eyes of their so-called “men.”  They teach them their lives are worth shit, that they’re to obey and prostrate themselves at the feet of the worthless swine they call husbands.  They teach them that they’re worth nothing, and therefore not worthy of the act of self defense.

Meanwhile the men are taught that their wives are nothing more than property… that hurting and harming them is not only acceptable, but required under the twisted principles of their demented death cult!

Trust me when I tell you David is correct.  Any twisted “cleric” who would advise any man of mine to attempt to discipline me in this manner would be force fed his own testicles in a Cobb salad.  The Glock would be reserved for any man who would take this gasbag’s advice on how to treat women.

The rusty fork would be reserved for the giver of said advice.

Zealots abound

I hate zealots.  Religious nuts or any other extremists make my skin crawl.  It’s one thing to have a relationship with whatever deity you happen to worship. It’s quite another to actively work to impose that relationship on others, whether by government force or via good old fashioned bullying.  I thought that’s the kind of twisted zealotry we were fighting against when we took on the Taliban and the fundamentalist Islamist swine who killed thousands of our citizens. 

I’m not thrilled with nimrods who use religious dogma to perpetuate hatred and infringe upon others’ rights.  It oogs me out to see fundamentalist fruitcakes try to ban books they find objectionable, ban television shows that don’t toe the religious line or try to force others to conform to their standards of dress or behavior. 

And this just makes me angry.  Jewish people are supposed to be our allies against Islamist crazies.  Since when do they start acting like them?  Frankly, twisted shit like this is what makes organized religion so unpalatable to me.

In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law
sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a
campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. They hurl stones
at women for such “sins” as wearing a red blouse, and attack stores
selling devices that can access the Internet.

In recent weeks,
self-styled “modesty patrols” have been accused of breaking into the
apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her for allegedly consorting
with men. They have torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing
devout Jews would use them to download pornography.

“These
breaches of purity and modesty endanger our community,” said
38-year-old Elchanan Blau, defending the bearded, black-robed zealots.
“If it takes fire to get them to stop, then so be it.”

And what, exactly, makes these zealots any different from their twisted Taliban counterparts?  How can we justify allying ourselves with demented animals who think that their faith entitles them to abuse others?  They throw rocks, attack women with pepper spray, spit on them, vandalize businesses that sell MP4 players and pay thugs to beat and threaten women for acts of brazenness such as wearing a red blouse or walking down a street with a man!

Can honor killings be far behind?

More retarded nitwittery from the old and irrelevant

What the hell IS it about this political season that has brought out everything crusty, old and inconsequential?  First it was Roseanne Barr, bloviating about Brangelina’s insignificant support for McCain.  Then, it was Lindsay Blohan, attempting to revive her dubious pertinence and remind everyone that, YES!, she’s still, in fact, a lesbian, and therefore Sarah Palin is evil.  This dumb twit did everything but feast on her girlfriend’s vagina on national television to remind us that she’s still gay and still around.  Like, who cares?  Really.

But now, the casket has creaked open, the dust has emanated in puffs from the powdery netherregions of hell (read: Barbra Streisand’s living room), and Babs has crawled out to contribute her oh-so-critical views about the elections for all to hear.

Streisand has been outspoken in criticizing John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

“This
calculated, cynical ploy to pull away a small percentage of Hillary’s
women voters from Barack Obama will not work,” Streisand wrote on her
Web page. “We are not that stupid!”

Um… in Babs’ case, I beg to differ.  This bitch has been laid by so many Hollywood manwores, I’m surprised you can’t drive a Volkswagen bus through her used-up snatch.  And she has the mental capacity of a teaspoon.  Talk about the kind of endorsement Obambi SHOULDN’T want! 

So just how stupid ARE the women Babs refers to?  Are these the same women who claimed that we have a responsibility to vote for Hillary Clinton because of her plumbing?  Well, in that case, Sarah Palin should be voted in at once!

Thanks, Babs, for clearing that up!