velma

The Chats are a solid punk band for sure.

Bob Vylan

Amyl and the Sniffers

Lambrini Girls

Viagra Boys

Mannequin Pussy

Alice Longyu Gao

Die Spitz

Cowboy Hunters

Mudrat

Soft Play

Sleater-Kinney

Teen Mortgage

Kneecap

Screaming Females

Bikini Kill

Destroy Boys

IDLES

The Streets

VIAL

Propaghandi

Deap Vally

Bad Cop Bad Cop

Fair, I'm showing my age by feeling like it's new. It's the newest iteration that I've heard adopted in the mainstream as a slur against women.

Karen is the new "bitch".

but neither is she.

For having an illness?

Are these people living in an alternate reality where Trump is working class?

That's pretty much what happened. They believed he would work for the working class, something the Dems haven't done in decades.

We all know they were lied to and they shouldn't have believed it. But what are the Dems going to do now? Continue to not work for their vote?

The worst part is thinking of how many women did the same thing for their husbands through history. There’s even a common saying that is seen as empowering, but I hate it with a passion: “Behind every great man is a great woman.”

Well yeah, that's why it's so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they're already in power, they're not going anywhere.

I think about Helen every so often when the topic comes up. It's sad to think that her talent was wasted on propping up a husband that never loved her the same way she loved him.

I think you're getting tripped up on the definition of working class that the article uses while missing the main message here. Yes, it is clunky to use "working class" as a way to denote uneducated voters/drawing the line between working class and not, I agree with you there.

Most people identify as working class, correct. Do you think that the Dems have been successful or have successfully pivoted in order to gain their votes?

With the excuse of helping make ends meet, Helen turned to writing for the Walt Disney Company, adapting movies into picture books and Little Golden Books. She kept her work separate from her husband’s, adopting the nom de plume H. Marion Palmer, a plausibly masculine name. Later she settled on writing under her maiden name, Helen Palmer. Given the chance to write her own books under the cover of financial necessity, she poured herself into it, publishing at least ten books in six years.6 Helen’s books were considered “successful but more or less conventional.”7

In 1948, Helen and Ted won Academy Awards for writing a documentary about pre-war Japan, but with her husband back at the drawing board, Helen gave up her own work. As E. J. Kahn Jr. explained in The New Yorker in 1960:

“Mrs. Geisel stopped writing books of her own fifteen years ago, so she could concentrate on helping her husband with his. This she does in part by keeping a vigilant critical eye on his output, in part by giving him the reassurance and praise for which he, like many another writer, has an insatiable need, and in part by shielding him from distractions.” One Suess biographer added, Ted “did not know how to make coffee, cook, or manage a checkbook.”8

As Ted approached fifty, his career finally started to take off. He earned three Caldecott honors in quick succession.9 That’s when Helen’s health failed for the first time. In 1954, she suffered sudden and near-total paralysis, affecting even her breathing. She spent months in an iron lung, viewing the world through a small glass window. Ted was frantic and doted on his wife during her long recovery. She was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disorder, Guillian-Barré syndrome, although the paralysis could have been a complication of her childhood bout with polio.

Helen recovered but lived in constant pain thereafter. It also seems that the illness caused a fracture in the Geisels’ marriage, which gradually grew wider.

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Dr. Seuss’s many biographers give passing mention to Helen’s Beginner Books, but none of them stop to consider them as serious creative efforts by a woman in her sixties. Helen, past retirement age and never 100% well, was running one of the most successful publishing ventures in the country. She was under no obligation to write books in addition to her heavy workload, she just wanted to.

Helen’s last book, Why I Built the Boogle House, was published in 1964. This story involved constructing and photographing ever larger homes for animals, from a turtle to a horse. The book came out about the time that Ted decided he couldn’t work with Phyllis Cerf anymore. Phyllis’s husband, caught between his wife and his bestselling author, chose Dr. Seuss and fired Phyllis from Beginner Books.

Decades later, after Ted died, Phyllis explained her view of the events. “It wasn’t really Ted… It was his maleness of not wanting to be bossed by all women. He had an agent [Phyllis Jackson], he had a partner [Phyllis Cerf], he had a wife—you know, he was surrounded by women telling him what to do. And he really was the genius—none of us were. But I think that we all guided him to where he needed to go.”11

As her publishing responsibilities increased, Helen stopped writing and her health worsened. She may have been going blind.14 By 1967, her paralysis began to return.15 One of the editors at Random House assigned to Dr. Seuss described Ted and Helen’s relationship and the atmosphere in the Geisel household: “They had so much in common, but they were driving each other crazy… Helen wasn’t well, and she probably depressed Ted. She had been very, very good for him, but I could not say she was good from him at that time.”16

Ted apparently agreed with that assessment. Audrey and Grey Dimond were perhaps the Geisels’ closest friends in La Jolla, yet Mr. Geisel and Mrs. Dimond started an affair. In 1965, Ted dedicated Fox in Sox to Audrey. As a recent biographer put it, “Audrey soon replaced his relationship with Helen as his primary emotional attachment.”17

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On Saturday, October 21, 1967, the Geisels attended a dinner party. At the end of the evening, one of the hosts hugged Helen, and she told him, “You don’t know how I needed that.” The next night, a month shy of her fortieth wedding anniversary, Helen went to her bedroom—the Geisels slept apart—and swallowed an overdose of sodium pentobarbital capsules, which had been dispensed to her in 1,000-pill bottles.

Helen’s suicide note began, “Dear Ted, What has happened to us?” She was depressed, feeling as if she were “in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape.” From every side she heard, “failure, failure, failure.”19

To me it looks like Ted had broached the idea of divorce. “I am too old,” Helen wrote, “and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you.” Suicide, she concluded, would allow Ted to say that Helen “was overworked and overwrought.” He shouldn’t worry. “Your reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed.” Helen ended her note by asking Ted to “sometimes think of the fun we had all thru the years.”20

A few months after Helen’s death, Ted sent a letter to one of the friends he and Helen met at Oxford University in 1925. He wanted to “put it out, flat on the line, without any comment or begging for understanding.” Ted wrote that he and Audrey would marry as soon as possible. She was moving to Nevada, where divorces could be obtained more quickly in 1968 than in California.

Ted then came nearer than he or Audrey did at any other time to admitting their relationship began long before Helen died. Ted wrote, “This is an inevitable, inescapable conclusion to five years of four people’s frustration.”21 Audrey later claimed that the relationship started nine months before Helen’s suicide, during a whale watching trip. “Along came this big old heave of a wave,” she said, “and I was absolutely, honestly, inadvertently thrown at Ted… He caught me and we looked at each other and the awareness was mutual.”22

To another friend, Ted offered an explanation that seemed plucked from one of Dr. Seuss’s gag cartoons from the 1930s, “My best friend is being divorced and I’m going to Reno to comfort his wife.”23

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fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

There are very few roadblocks for rapists as it is.

That the Dems have lost ground with people who view themselves as working class is the real story here.

It's like you're not reading the article or comprehending my replies. Of course I think that the college educated baristas probably view themselves as working class. Do you think the Dems strategy have been effective at earning that baristas vote regardless of their college-educated background?

The article, which I pulled out for the excerpt, even acknowledges that the definition of working class has shifted:

Definitions of what makes a working-class voter differ depending on who you ask.

The past couple of years have been particularly challenging for working-class women in the economy. They returned to work in high numbers after the pandemic, benefiting from a climate in which businesses were offering better benefits, more flexibility and higher pay, which allowed them to move into good jobs. But those improvements were short-lived.
“We’re seeing a pretty stunning reversal of that that is impacting the real working-class jobs that are sort of manual labor, low-wage, low-education requirement jobs predominantly held by women,” said Kate Bahn, the chief economist and senior vice president of research at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a think tank focused on gender and economic equity.
The evidence is in the gender pay gap: After years of shrinking, the gap actually widened over the past two years for the first time since the 1960s.
Working class women are facing a labor market far more unstable than in the last election cycle, and they’re looking for candidates who understand that, voters told The 19th.

That are trying to normalize pedophilia.

At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.
That’s according to U.S. child protective services records.
The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.

FBI crime data shows that 51% of reported rape is perpetrated against people ages 0-19.
That’s approximately 61,754 young rape victims every year, including our most vulnerable children, adolescents navigating middle and high school, and young adults just beginning to move through the world with more independence.

It's really not a small cabal of the ultrawealthy though.

They aren't running ads for CSAM because no one pays for it.

pushing this to normalize pedophilla.

They don't really need to manufacture how normalized pedophilia is in our society. They're simply capitalizing on it.

That definition doesn't exclude the demographic the article is talking about. Those voters who must work to support themselves and their family still include a huge number of women. That the Dems have lost ground with people who view themselves as working class is the real story here. They can still cater to those that are more educated, and they should try to reach more than just working class, but that doesn't win them elections anymore.

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Where is the current wave of Punk music?

Where is the current wave of Punk music?

Colorado will still mail out all ballots, despite Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump’s order

Colorado will still mail out all ballots, despite Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump’s order

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Dr. Seuss had moments of clarity in his pretty fucked up life

Everyone wants to win working-class voters. But have they realized many are women?

Dr. Seuss had moments of clarity in his pretty fucked up life

Dr. Seuss had moments of clarity in his pretty fucked up life

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Dr. Seuss had moments of clarity in his pretty fucked up life

Everyone wants to win working-class voters. But have they realized many are women?

Dr. Seuss had moments of clarity in his pretty fucked up life

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Everyone wants to win working-class voters. But have they realized many are women?

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Everyone wants to win working-class voters. But have they realized many are women?

Everyone wants to win working-class voters. But have they realized many are women?

What is something about you that surprises people when they first find out?

New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence

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A Call for Help: 60 Cats Rescued from a Boat (Over 190 in shelter!!)

TIL Ancient Roman farm women made wine, oil and profits. Historians dismissed them as 'housekeepers'

Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex

Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

TIL about Elvira Notari, Italy's First Female Director and Erased by Fascism