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  • permalinkHow Revenant is NOW to American Women...

    Desan

    Posted on: Sat, Oct 17 2009 10:02 PM

     Okay we had the new president of NOW some out and chaste a couple men for behaving badly David Lettermen and ah oh I think Jon Gosslin (I had to Google that one) but they must be bad dudes. Besides not being disabled NOW has placed all fault upon then men. Why is that I mean Dave cold not have done what he did with a female staff member because as males we know a woman says no even if your married it means NO so more or less the women did what they did by choice and they all got caught and now all the fault rests squarely upon the men. How equal of rights is that as a woman you can always blame the man after all to me it just does not figure. Then again I’m disabled as a man it is assumed that since my legs do not work nothing else in my male being is able to say father a child (okay I only had 3 sons) and lots of blanks but what fun it was.
    So the question is N.O.W correct in assuming the position that the female had no say or have they become an old world view ? Equal rights encompass a wide range of people not only women and I’ve really yet to see disabled women’s rights even addressed.
    Maybe I’m just a man behaving badly but now days I do know I have choices as well as I know women do pretty much equal so are these two men toxic I think not people made choices and went with it and someone  old school tried to exploit it simply because they are men. Hog wash as a gimpy old man any woman that is around me is there because of choice and to try and continue this division of men against women is nonsense and promotes division and not a common ground.
    So women how important is NOW position with you as a disabled female? Just wanna know after all I am a man and an old one at that LOL.

    (Old Gas Enhanced Disclaimer this posting is not directly related to any Disaboom member or its Staff, Moderators or their Relatives. It is just a personal response to a subject get over it.
  • permalinkRe: How Revenant is NOW to American...

    BeautifulDisaster

    Posted on: Sun, Oct 18 2009 6:37 AM

    I believe in the case of cheeting that blaim always rest suarely on the shoulders of the cheater.. be it male or female. I have a HUGE issue with cheaters, maybe more then any other pet peeve. Did their mistresses have a choice? Sure they did. I have an insanely gorgous model/fitness trainer/massage therapist/english hottie who has made it clear he'd like to be my friend with benefits.. more benefits less friend.. and sadly I have had to turn him down because he has a girlfriend. A girlfriend he's planning on ending things with supposedly but a girlfriend nonetheless. Now a woman with less self control would have reasoned "he's gonna end it anyway, it's only a matter of time" and lost herself in his steamy green eyes but isn't that how most affairs begin? with people reasoning to themselves all the ways it's not wrong and hurtful? I would never knowingly overstep that bounds and this fella has outright asked me why do I care if some woman I don't know gets hurt.

     

    Lets all stop and think about that question for a min. Why care if your actions would cause someone you don't know to get hurt? Where would society be if there weren't people in this world that didn't care about all those unknown faces? Where would we be if we put our own self gratification before all those unknown faces? Wars that maintain freedom would have never taken place. Laws like our ADA, which strive for equality, would have never passed. Woman's very right to vote came of other women caring about the unknown faces of there sisters! So yes the blaim rests squarely on the shoulders of the cheaters.. but my question is: woman out there what has happened to us that we've stopped caring about each other?

     

    I see woman my age selling themselves at parties like pieces of meat. And woman who never open their mouths to disagree with a male because they don't want ot be a "bitch". I see women who plaster on a smile and blow rainbows out their ass constantly never talking about anything of substance or daring to have an opinion because thats not what turns the male head. I see women who put up with cheating bastards in their life because they provide. I see these things and all i can think of is the woman sufferage leaders.. we've gone backwards not forwards. Some woman say that we fought for the right to be free sexual beings.. but are we? Ladies when we shave every blessed thing and curl and flatten hair and squeeze our bodies into uncomfortable clothes and make out with each other (when we're most certainly hetero) for attention, is that sexual freedom? When we' re too busy perfecting our lap dance instead of perfecting our relationships is that sexual freedom?It embaresses me as a woman and pisses me off because now suddenly when i refuse to flash a stranger my tits, and when i disagree without compromise with a man,  when i'm more concerned about building a relationship then seducing.. i'm no fun.. i'mmmm a bitch.  

    NOW is a joke. Feminism is a joke because we've made it that way. Mixed messages ladies and I say this as a female that gives in and shaves every blessed thing and worries and fusses bout her hair but I have moments of clarity when the fog of beauty standards lifts.. when I look at myself in the mirror and wonder what the hell I'm doing. Before we can focus on subgroups "disabled" "nondisabled" women's rights let's remember the basics!

     

    "Perfect only in her imperfection"
  • permalinkRe: How Revenant is NOW to American...

    squabwithfibro

    Posted on: Mon, Oct 19 2009 10:17 AM

     Well put Beautiful.  I had the unfortunate experience of sitting in the mall Friday night waiting for my son and this young couple were making out so intensely they left body fluids on the sofa they were sitting on.  Gross.....neither appeared to have any common sense nor any self respect.  They were on the couch next to a chair where I was already sitting when they came over to the couch and began their make out "session".  One vendor told them to stop since the cops were coming .....and they would be thrown out of the mall.  They ignored him.  When they "finished"(relative term...I was trying to ignore them)...they got up and left and before I could stop myself, I said, "good bye slut!"  Her mouth flew open.....like total disbelief.  I'm an old lady and I really didn't appreciate their conduct so close to my proximity.  I surprised myself.  I've never done anything like that before or ever called anyone a slut.  I guess I felt they deserved it by subjecting everyone around them to what should be private.  Oh.....their over active hormones!  lol  The security guard (who happened to be a high school friend of my son) came along after the couple had left.  I reported it to them and vented about my indignation.....and suggested someone clean the couch.....with a sanitary wipe perhaps?  ick

     

    In my opinion, David Letterman is a worthless piece of flesh.  He is a hypocrite and I hope he has to go off the air.  I haven't watched his show in the past unless there was a guest on I wanted to see.....while begrudging having to put up with his stupid mouth .....and don't intend to in the future.  That being said, I agree his "partner" in his misconduct appears to have been a willing partner.  Stupid choices should bring consequences. (I imagine she is uncomfortable around the water cooler these days.)   We all have choices to make every day.  The choices made reflect one's true character.  Letterman has only been caught with his pants down......and I feel made his public apology, not out or any sense of true remorse, but he was forced to much as a small child is told by their mother.....to "say you're sorry"......when they really aren't sorry at all, but are only saying it to get out of the situation of being "caught".......just my opinion..... stick me with a fork.....I'm done! 

    squabwithfibro
  • permalinkRe: How Revenant is NOW to American...

    Niky

    Posted on: Mon, Oct 19 2009 11:08 AM

     NOW is a group of bra burning man hating, carpet munching lesbians and I have never supported them, nor will I. They've never been relavant to me.

    Someone should tell others that disabled people are perfectly capable of having normal lives.