Newsmakers in La Jolla ponder wishes for 2011
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The Top Quotes of The Year
1. “We are the 99 percent.” — slogan of Occupy movement.
2. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” — U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, speaking in Andover, Mass., in August.
3. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” — Billionaire Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed on Aug. 15.
4. “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” — Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman in an Aug. 18 tweet.
5. “Oops.” — Presidential candidate Rick Perry after unsuccessfully attempting to remember the third federal agency he would eliminate during a Nov. 9 debate.
6. “When they ask me, ‘Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?’ I’m going to say, ‘You know, I don’t know. Do you know?’” — Then-presidential candidate Herman Cain in an interview by Christian Broadcasting Network on Oct. 7.
7. “I am on a drug. It’s called ‘Charlie Sheen.’ It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” — Actor Charlie Sheen in a February interview with ABC News.
8. “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ last words on Oct. 5, as reported by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy.
9. “I can’t say with certitude.” — Then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner on June 1 when he was asked whether a lewd photograph was in fact him.
10. “Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.” — Lawyer Gloria Allred on Nov. 7 discussing Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment of her client.
Anonymity Erased.
nytimes.comBoth fascinating, and disturbing. But the ‘educated’ woman? Hilarious.
Y! Newsmakers: Melinda Gates
news.yahoo.comJust returned from NY where I had the privilege to do a shoot w/ Melinda Gates. In this clip, Melinda Gates talks about how she and her family spend family time together.
Can You Run IBM AND Have Kids? Perhaps If You Have a Wife.
So much going on in the world, you may not have noticed that the mighty I.B.M., a singular icon of big men taking care of big business, is now run by a lovely lady named Virginia.
Virginia Rometty (above) officially accepted the top job in January, and the reason I know this is, in part, because Tiger Woods may be headed for the Masters golf tournament again.
I’ve played golf only a handful of times, but I know that the Masters is held in Augusta, Georgia on a course that has never, ever admitted women members. The Masters is independent from the rules of the PGA, but they pretend to respect them: Women can play the Augusta course, but they’re denied that ooky-looking Members Only green jacket that CBS News called ”a status symbol in business and golf.”
The Masters admitted its first black member in 1990. Women, not so much.
Rometty v. Masters wouldn’t be SUCH a big deal if only I.B.M. wasn’t a longtime sponsor of the Masters tournament, set for mere weeks from now. And, if only the Masters didn’t have a tradition of offering a membership to every I.B.M. C.E.O.!
Will I.B.M. pull its sponsorship (not because of Ms. Rometty per se, but because it’s the right danged thing to do?) OR, will the Masters use this easy PR opportunity and change its archaic, close-minded rules?
If you’ve guessed that Ginni Rometty is a NotMom, you’re right. I’d have cheered her on in an imaginary fist bump anyway, but now, well, you know. She’s the 29th woman to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The NY Times reports that 18 of them have children, tracking significantly below the 87% of married U.S. women who have children. No surprise there.
She may not have children, but Ms. Rometty does have a husband of 32 years. Like many corporate wives, he has his own less-demanding career. As the world moves forward, we’re going to need more men like him who are secure in their status and masculinity.
When asked what men can do to help advance women as leaders, a Harvard Business School professor answered, “The laundry.”
(Photo Credit: NY Times/Graham Carlow)
Knit a Uterus for Your Elected Rep & Maybe He'll Leave Yours Alone
The United States Congress, a bevy of state Legislatures and the Republican slate of potential candidates, men all, have been stunningly obsessed with a small part of the American landscape: Ladyparts.
Efforts to limit contraceptive materials or information and invasive delaying tactics in hopes of denying a legal health procedure make me feel trapped on the set of Mad Men. Surely the men who claim my boss has the right to deny my insurance-covered IUD would love it if all gynecologists were men who gave husbands any medical update before his wife, the patient.
Of course, many, many NotMoms have {gasp} used birth control and would like future generations of women to have the opportunity to make the same choice. We’re always told to speak up to our elected officials and voice our opinions. On the Net, it’s easier than ever to send an email to your Congressperson or State Rep.
But, if you’re crafty, I give you the campaign to Knit a Uterus for Congress!
The website? Government-Free VJJ.com. (And yes, that IS a knitted vulva with clitoris 4th from left.)
The patterns are free, but they do ask that you let them know which elected officials will receive your handiwork. Instructions for crochet are available, too.
I’m hoping the pattern isn’t too difficult, because I have several folks to mail one to…plus one for myself to keep. I think I’ll name mine Ursula.
“It's a question that James Kelly and his girlfriend, Amy Wright, never thought they'd have to entertain. But one instant message changed everything. Amy, a 20-year-old brunette at the University of California at Irvine, was on her laptop when she got an IM from a random guy nicknamed mistahxxxrightme, asking her for webcam sex. Out of the blue, like that. Amy told the guy off, but he IM'd again, saying he knew all about her, and to prove it he started describing her dorm room, the color of her walls, the pattern on her sheets, the pictures on her walls. "You have a pink vibrator," he said. It was like Amy'd slipped into a stalker movie. Then he sent her an image file. Amy watched in horror as the picture materialized on the screen: a shot of her in that very room, naked on the bed, having webcam sex with James.”
—The Hacker is WatchingIn 2012, Women Still Die After Delivering the Wrong Baby, Or No Baby.
Last month about this time, I tripped over this heartbreaking headline from India: “Childless Woman Hangs Self”.
Only recently did I find another “headline tells the tale” about a different but related horror that occurred at just about the same time, in Afghanistan: “Afghan Woman Killed: She Failed to Have Son.”
Ooh! There it is again: A wave of pain for that woman. For the world she lives in. For the world I live in. An empathetic ache in the chest, a tightening that squints the eyes and makes my eyebrows look like this:
In this instance (because surely there are others), soon after a young Afghan woman delivered her third daughter, her husband and his mother strangled and buried her.
Deep in the NY Times story is this tearjerker: “There were signs of torture that led to suspicions [she] had been killed.”
Say a prayer. Support organizations like Women For Women or Global Fund for Women. Stay awake and give a damn.
