I bitch therefore I am.

I am always bitching about the state of the State. So I decided to do something about it beyond posting his sign in my yard:

Dear MT Fem,
Thank you for signing up to volunteer with my campaign for U.S. Senate. Grassroots volunteers like you will help us bring strong leadership and change to Washington D.C. Please tell your friends about our website. A strong volunteer base will make a big difference and guide us to victory in 2006.We'll be in touch as the campaign progresses with more opportunities to help out.

Sincerely,
Jon Tester

A Seperate Reality Dems vrs. Republicans

I realized how seperate my reality is from a gentleman driving a white 4 door sedan in Belgrade today. His bumper sticker read, "Annoy a Liberal, work, succeed, be happy." I thought, Well hell that is exactly what I think... maybe we are not so different after all ? On thinking on it a bit longer I realized the seperation in our reality was this; that from a Liberal point of veiw a opposing bumper sticker might read, "Annoy a Conservative, work, succeed, be happy without hurting the environment, women, people who do not believe exactly as you do, gays, the underpriveleged etc."

The Fem

I was asked today why I choose the title, "Montana Fem" and it gave me a lot of pleasure to describe what that means to me.
My mother one of 7 girls in a family of 11 was definitely a Feminist while not knowing it. She had 4 daughters herself and instilled a great degree of pride in us at being female. Throughout the course of my life there are many incidences that sustain me in my belief that I was a Feminist before I knew it.
Now, as I get into a more mellow mindset in my 30's, I find myself more comfortable then ever being a female in this world. I have passed those awkward teen years when standing up for myself as a woman would have been a social ill and my twenties when I was too busy trying to figure out who I wanted to be to notice that I was perfectly fine the way I was.
In my late 20's I took an Eco Feminism class and I learned that being a woman did not mean being anti male. I love males and always had a hard time with that concept. In fact my first real conversation with a hard core feminist was with a man name Rob. My mind expanded, I understood why I did not feed on anger towards men but still felt strongly that being a woman meant having a harder row to hoe. Some of my Feminist friends do not understand me when I say that I have excepted that, to my bosses who are male, I am less in the work place than my male counterparts. I try to explain that I am secure that I work hard and that I earn all of the respect that is given me, not because I am a male but because as a woman I have had to earn it.
I work in a male dominated industry, Guitar Manufacturing, and I am not afraid to say that I use that to help me succeed. I don't mean I have slept my way anywhere I just mean that the men that I work with are used to dealing with other men and to deal with a woman, especially a woman who knows her stuff, is somewhat refreshing and impressive to them.
Lets face it, there are differences in the sexes. I am not in the mindset that we are exactly equal in every way, but we are equal as humans and should treat each other as such.

Robert F. Kennedy

I recieved a letter from Robert F Kennedy Jr. today and he had some things to tell me about the environment. First off I would like to say how excited I was to get anything from a Kennedy, except Maria Shriver, that would suck.
Robert mentioned in this letter that, "45 of the American States post warnings about mercury contamination in lakes and streams." Will we be soon to follow? What is to be gained by the Republican mind set that it is more important to make a buck than be able to have your water mercury free? What are we as Montanan's willing to do to make sure that we are not 46?

Today I blog.

So I decided to join the world of blogs. Is that right? Do I say blogs? When I comment on my friends site I always tell him, "I blogged you.", and he nods agreeably but I have no idea if that means anything to him. I await the knowledge and experience that will answer these questions. Today I blog.