Throughout history paternal hegemony has denied women the glory due to them as pioneers and trailblazers. At Florida Cracker every month is Women's History Month, and today I want to honor the daring and heretofore unacknowledged woman who blazed a trail later trod upon so famously by many men.
Before Robert Altman, before Eddie Vedder, before Alec Baldwin, a woman's voice rang loud and clear with the threat to leave the country if a candidate she didn't like were elected president. The despised candidate was John F. Kennedy, and that voice, uncompromising, unwavering, belonged to Margaret Sanger. For some reason she later changed her mind about leaving, but in that too she pioneered, blazing the backtrack that so many others have followed.
Pause for a moment as my ovarian follicles do the wave in honor of the standard-bearer who lead the way in celebrities who threaten to leave the country if a guy they don't like gets elected, a true Shero of Herstory, Margaret Sanger.
Posted by floridacracker at November 24, 2006 02:45 AMthat's nothing...
I silently threaten to re-integrate myself back into a planaria everytime Sharon Stone makes a pledge..
and with that I am calling in slick. Go Gators...DIE
FSU !!! DIE !!!!
"Ovarian follicles?" Jesus.
My vas deferens salutes you. No, not like THAT. Oh, nevermind.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at November 24, 2006 04:17 PMGlad you enjoyed the imagery.
Posted by: Donnah at November 24, 2006 04:23 PMI *was* starting to get into it..till he peter'd out..whatever
Posted by: csason at November 24, 2006 05:51 PMI know a couple who claimed they would move to Canada if Bush was re-elected. They never did. I wanted to offer them some money to help with moving expenses if they would actually move, but my wife told me that would be rude. I'm not sure what her point was.
Posted by: pwyll at November 24, 2006 06:29 PMOh, I also second, "Go Gators ... ...DIE
FSU !!! DIE !!!!"
Margret was commited all righty...just not totally.
Alec and all his Hollyweird friends followed right in her footsteps too, say one thing, do another.
I heard a lot of talk about taking up collections for tickets, too bad there was no follow through on that either.
Being the black sheep of the family and a diehard Gators fan since '63 I to say unto the criminol's:
"Ya'll are GATORBAIT this year!", kinda been that way a lot lately. ;p
My Florida relatives are somewhat touchy about the game so I'm not saying anything while they visit for Thanksgiving this year.
If anyone learns of a celebrity making a similar statement earlier than Sanger, let me know. As far as I know, she blazed this particular petulant trail.
Posted by: Donnah at November 25, 2006 01:05 AMDonnah, an much earlier incident occurred wrt this type of behavior when a Republican president was up for election. But the people I'm referring to actually left the United States. The group was a bit larger but their names are recognizable to this day. Here's the short list and the date they left the United States:
* South Carolina (December 20, 1860),
* Mississippi (January 9, 1861),
* Florida (January 10, 1861),
* Alabama (January 11, 1861),
* Georgia (January 19, 1861),
* Louisiana (January 26, 1861),
* Texas (February 1, 1861).
These guys, they called themselves the Confederacy, were truthers too just like our modern variety. Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, said that the “cornerstone” of the new government "rest[ed] upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
Pretty sick stuff. Spewing hatred and bile seems to be a long standing tradition in the truther movement.
Posted by: Scott R at November 26, 2006 10:02 AMHeh. Nice try. Only Stephens wasn't a celebrity, was against secession, and the objection wasn't with the president but with the Congress.
Vice-presidents say the darnedest things, don't they?
It's the most written-about war in American history, and a tad more complex than you're letting on.
It's a darn shame about Margaret and her belief in eugenics and forced sterilization for the "inferior."
Love your pics, btw. The pup especially.
Posted by: Donnah at November 26, 2006 10:50 AM