W stands for Women?
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.

How stupid must you be to actually believe that sign that you’re carrying? Oh my God… what is wrong with you? That’s would be the equivalent of the Red Cross changing their sign to the skull and crossbone or the swastika. Well, that’s not a good analogy, but you know what I mean.

So in the last couple of days watching the RNC (BTW, PBS still has the best coverage. So screw you and your cable channels), I kept seeing this red sign with black lettering mixed among the crowds.

I found out later that the big black W on the red sign was for a campaign that was launched a few years ago to target the female vote. Here is the link.

Quickly scanning the site, an informed individual can quickly pick up that there is a theme here. The site first uses fear to capture your attention ("the stakes in the next election are high: the safety and security of our families and homeland..."), then they target the women's "domain" of children (..the health and education of our children...). One thing that is blantly missing? Actually talking about WOMEN! There's nothing in here about women's rights or anything pertaining to the woman herself. There are however, lots about the traditional "duties" of women and how he will help in those areas.

Why the fuck does this even belong here? "President Bush is expanding the armies of compassion, putting government on the side of faith based and community groups... " Isn't that a big ass No-No? To put government on the side of faith based groups? Isn't that what the people we're fighting doing? Are we to become like them in order to defeat them? And when we do defeat them, won't we just take their place cause we're theortically the same way?

Please read this article from a reporter with the the village voice who was at the RNC interviewing the women who were holding up these signs. It’s quite informative at getting what these ladies are thinking.

Realize that yes, W does have affection for women, and that he knows exactly where they belong. The place of women is to behind the men. To support and serve what the men tells them as his faith has preached for so long. This is what the W stands for. To those women that ‘knows their role’, he is quite the gentleman. After all, that’s his role.

The following is from someone else’s blog. I think it does a better job of explaining this than I do. I’m sorry, but I can’t remember where I got it. If it’s yours, let me know and I’ll properly quote you.

So, according to the link, George W. has the nerve to start a campaign in which he claims the "W" in his name stands for "Women."I can see how that would be true - if he means it stands for the Women he's let die in Africa because he wouldn't turn over the United Nations Population Fund's $34 million to prevent Women dying of AIDS and fistula and in childbirth and due to illegal and unsanitary abortions. It might stand for those Women.

It might stand for the millions of American Women he's betrayed, by rolling reproductive rights back to the 14th century, restricting access to abortion and emergency contraception, telling Women that abortion causes breast cancer, which the American Cancer Society's Data proves is an outright lie.

How about the young Women, who he has decided are too young to take a pill to prevent pregnancy - but are apparently old enough to be mothers. Or the ones subjected to his "abstinence only" sex education, whose teachers aren't allowed to tell them anything about birth control except its failure rate.

Oh yeah, the "W" stands for those Women.