Keiko – Respectfully, I personally don’t want to “foster discussion” about whether it is ok to subjugate women, engage in misogyny, demean women, pay them less, threaten them with their personal physical, professional and spiritual rights and choices and all the other topics that women have been dealing with for thousands of years.

WHY ON EARTH are these issues STILL issues? What is it about people in general, men, other women, cultures, religions and political leanings that give them the right to continually force women into a subservient position?

It is time to “just say no” and make it stick. Enough is enough.

I would hope TNA will keep this as the forward thought within this organization and maintain the pressure in the place this practice is underscored the most: In the Media.

The fact that there is a need for TNA simply underscores just how far we have yet to go.

No one party can afford to ignore women’s voices. The entrenched misogyny in all political parties is a fact that needs to be addressed by strong female voices, irrespective of their party affiliation. The media misogynist frat-boys, with a tremendous assisst from the Obama campaign, and from Sen. Obama’s own camouflaged misogyny (“Obama Gives Finger to Hillary” mega-hit) pushed a smugly anorexic resume to the top of the interviews file! The systemic sexism of the media has blurred its vision to the point where women candidates are degraded, demoted, demeaned and diminished with the blessings of women whose vision has been blurred by Obamyopia. Unfortunately, this election offers no dilemmatic angst. The choice between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbo means that, once again, women’s voices are silenced by a deeply misogynist media and a “Democratic ” campaign that has consistently and dangerously refused to respect and acknowledge the historic candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton. Come November, the millions of cracks on the ceiling that obamyopics have tried to plaster over will be shattered in an unprecedented way. Periodically, then, Sen. Obama will feel down as result, and launch attacks against the women whom he thought he’d “win over easy”–knowing that he’ll just have to “get over it”!

also it is a fact that senator mcCain’s female staff are paid higher than Obama’s staff.

Now on hind sight, many of us realize that it was the wrong thing to do, but we thought we were doing the right thing in supporting of NOW since they are an organization of women. However, time has shown that NOW has not reciprocated.

I strongly believe that their lack of reciprocation and support for all women is one of the reasons we have not achieved that which we should have, could have and would have.

Moving on, I do not condemn NOW. I would like them to learn from past mistakes and I so welcome becoming a part of THE NEW AGENDA.

I drifted away from NOW over the years and have let NARAL know that they won’t be getting any further contributions from me due to their endorsement of Obama during a critical time in the primaries (when Hillary was embarrassing him by winning big states so the pressure mounted for her to drop out.)

I welcome The New Agenda.

Saralotta, the Palestinian women have a lot more problems than Israelis. Living with a mindset that practices gender apartheid, for one. Embracing a religion that teaches them if their sons martyr themselves they get glory in heaven…ie, children to rape for eternity. All religions’ ideas of heavens are dubious, but I side with the Dutch cartoonist who joked “Stop! Heaven’s running out of virgins!” The problems of Islamic women will continue as long as we pretend to “respect” a religion that treats them as chattel both on earth and in “heaven.”

But in the Whole Foods Nation is it heresy for me to say so, while it’s a-ok to pick Sarah Palin’s bones clear over her religious beliefs, which she has shown to keep separate from her governing.