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What are you doing this weekend?
Me llamo Rico. Que tú quieres??
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What are you doing this weekend?
Me llamo Rico. Que tú quieres??
Filed under: General | 46 Comments »
Spare me the “she’s an anti-choice conservative” bullshit. So is Obama.
Sarah said more in defense of women than NOW did.
From Transcript (unofficial):
Here’s the problem, Matt – the double standard that has been applied here. One, let’s talk politically, the double standard. First, remember in the campaign, Barack Obama said the family’s off-limits – you don’t talk about my family. And the candidate who must be obeyed – everybody adhered to that and left his family. They haven’t done that on the other side of the ticket, and it has continued to this day. So that’s a political double standard. But here again, the double standard when it comes to acceptance of a celebrity being able to get way with a disparaging comment that does erode a young girl’s self-esteem and does contribute to some of the problems that we have in society.
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He doesn’t have to apologize to me.
I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to that–kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like that it’s okay to talk about young girls in that way. Where it’s kind of okay and accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape. It’s not cool. It’s not funny.
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