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Elizabeth Stillson
Seattle, WA
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Elizabeth commented on the petition |It's the rampant misogyny that makes Rachel Maddow the ONLY watchable show on your network. And that simply isn't enough for me to pay for cable to watch your crappy shows.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |First- let's talk sexism
Who is most likely to head poor families? Women. Who is Greg worried about in his article? Poor fat girls. You cannot talk about poverty and obesity without talking about women, and when you act like a condescending fauxgressive trying to teach poor women and girls how to eat right, you're being a sexist.
Also Greg- when the first sentence of your reply is a classic sexist silencing technique of "silly girl, you don't mean what you think you mean" you're being a sexist.
And thanks for completely not addressing the offensive picture. That just makes it easier for meto not give you the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is not, and hasn't ever been, that we poor moms don't know how to eat right. We're American women, any American female over the age of 15 knows how to read lables and count calories. What we really don't need is one more layer of regulation in our already difficult lives from dudes in blue suits deciding exactly what we can or cannot put in our grocery baskets every week.
What we need is more resources, less shaming. And while Greg may have similiar ideas to mine, his come with a giant pile of classim (poor ignorant people need help choosing fruits instead of twinkies) and a desire to make the lives of poor people harder in exchange for the luxury of having enough food in their bellies.
Pardon me, for being an uppity poor mom and calling you out on your classism, fat-shaming and sexism. I thought this was Change.org, not status-quo-shame.org.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |
OMFG- could you be anymore offensive? How's the view from your virtuous foodie, fat shaming high horse?
1st- the picture- using headless fatties used to illustrate the obesity crisis is demeaning to the people you act like you are trying to help.
Second- what poor people really need is less ability to get enough food by restriciting what they can buy? FYI- WIC Already does that. Food stamps are an emergency level diet to begin with. Which means that the allotments are designed to make people buy the cheapest, highest calorie foods in order to get enough calories to survive.
In order for me to feed my kid and I a virtuous foodie diet of organic fruits and veg- I would have to spend over $600 a month to get enough calories to live on. We don't have that kind of money, and food stamps at the most are half of that.
Perhaps you might want to come off your high horse and wallow in the poverty muck for a minute and get yourself an education on what it's really like to feed a family when your below the poverty line.
And since you're so big on figuring out solutions- here's an easy one. End all ag subsidies and put the money into increasing the food stamp program so that 1) It's no longer emergency level rations and 2) takes into account the actual cost of getting enough calories everyday AND eating fresh fruits and veg and whole grains.
And none of that involves shaming poor people (specifically poor women- I'm not in the mood to unpackyour sexism for you) and instead might actually do some good.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |I hate the virtuous foodies, and I say this as both a poor person and a foodie.
First, I find the whole slow food movement regressive. Women, who still do a majority of the day to day cooking, are supposed to feel bad because they don't have an extra 20 hours a week to spend shopping for and cooking meals that meat the virtuous standards of who-gives-a-rats...
2nd -if on a poverty budget you could eat enough calories in just organic produce & meat and minimally processed foods and still have time to work two jobs and take care of the children, then we would. But it's not a possibility.
So the virtuous foodies just hve one more impossible standard to hold the us poor people to. And I think it kinda blows.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |Happy birthday to you!
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Elizabeth commented on the article |My mom and dad met at a commune in San Fran started by a trust fund brat who wanted everyone to "experience hunger" by living on nothing but soybeans and rice or some such rot.
My mom, who grew up dirt poor in Detriot said "as long as you know there is cash in your pocket- you don't know hunger. You're just play acting". So she and my dad left and got hambugers.
So forgive me if I'm not impressed by the condesencion of the upper class. I feel like it's a game they play so they don't have to really redistribure wealth.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |
Thanks for the link luvkins.
In talking about poverty I like to point out the Martin Luther King was assasinated when he started talking about poverty.
(And just to be bitchy- talking about "lifting people out of poverty" is condesending and classist. We don't need a lift. We need the boots off our necks. )
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