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singe
2007-04-12 12:10 am UTC (link)

As usual, it's the series of "YOU ROCK!" comments that are making me ill.

"The vote. Your franchise. Do you have the ability to secure credit under your own name? Can you, if you wish, apply to be a firefighter or police officer? Do you have a legal identity that is not attached to your husband or father? Are you judged on merit, rather than gender, at your place of work? In short, do you enjoy all the rights and privileges of a US citizen regardless of your gender?"

She said "Yeah," to that? That proves he's lying.

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	seiberwing 2007-04-12 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, what the hell. And Connecticut seems to be involved, but I am not sure why. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-04-12 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Why do I have the soundtrack to 'White Christmas' running through my head? Oh, wait, that's Vermont... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2007-04-12 01:02 am UTC (link)
	White Christmas? Why that? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-04-12 01:09 am UTC (link)
	Regional similarities to Vermont? Them what are of Irish descent talking about sunburning easily? The fact that it's snowing pretty damn heavily here in Minnesota? I don't know, man! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snacky 2007-04-12 01:11 am UTC (link)
	Aw, I guessed wrong. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-04-12 01:15 am UTC (link)
	Sings: "God help the mister who comes between me and my sister..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snacky 2007-04-12 01:27 am UTC (link)
	"And God help the sister who comes between me and my maaaaaaaaaaaaan!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2007-04-12 01:11 am UTC (link)
	I'm guessing because she was thinking the song "White Christmas" came from the movie "Christmas in Connectiuct", but then realized it was from the movie which is set in Vermont. Just guessing, though! It may be because she likes the song so much! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2007-04-12 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	Perhaps because Connecticut was the site of a few "sundown towns"? (These were towns where it was kind of an unofficial law that if you were black or Jewish there after dark, you'd be picked up by the police for trespassing because you sure as hell didn't live there.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2007-04-12 04:23 pm UTC (link)
	That makes mild sense. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	queencallipygos 2007-04-12 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	I've read a little further in the comment thread in here, though; it actaully seems like the implication is more "people from Connecticut are people of privilege and don't know what real hardship is." At which point I wanted to ask them where all the money my "privileged" ass is supposed to have is being kept, because I SURE as hell haven't seen it yet....(grumble) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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