By Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster
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| Bloodworth-Thomason from Fellowship of the Mind |
Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason has a lot to learn about being free and in community with
others. Standing up for the truth is
required of us as human beings. It does
not matter who it is, the truth needs to be told, both to affirm those who suffer
harm and to remind those who violate the rights of others of their error. ‘Doing the right thing,’ means all of the
time, every time, not when it is convenient or emotionally easy.
To put it plainly,
she believes she can enjoy a relationship with a sexual predator and cut this
off from any judgement of herself when her ‘friend’ violates the personal
autonomy of someone else. This is
absurd, wishful thinking which expresses an ugly truth about Ms. Bloodworth and
uncounted others.
What about the many
victims Bill Clinton has left in his wake?
What about the campaigns of destruction waged by Hillary Clinton on these
victims of Bill’s sexual addiction?
On John and Ken Show
in Los Angeles, a radio talk show, their phone line, “The Moist Line,” for
people to leave messages for what scum bag needs to be thrown into the
proverbial dumpster this week, only two names were mentioned several times by
many women. One was Harvey Weinstein and
the other was, “What about Bill Clinton?”
We have not forgotten.
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| Bill and Harvey from The gateway Pundit, Harv chuckling |
For you to not
counsel Bill Clinton on this matter as your attorney uncle would, is to turn the
hashtag, “#MeToo,” into “PoundMeToo,” probably not what you intended, but you
are in the arena with a word processor and TV cameras.
Not being believed,
being discounted, dismissed, causes trauma which sends ripples of pain down the
entire life of an individual. Each of
us is responsible for our own lives and can be judged when we give the
semblance of honor to those whose own actions are at variance with these values
when we choose to ignore this human responsibility.
Linda, you are, as
you refused to admit, a hypocrite.
Freedom from sexual
harassment is not just for women in Hollywood, it is for all of us, women and
men all of our lives. Freedom goes way
beyond respect for our bodies. Our freedom includes our choices, how we live,
love and work as long as we do no harm to others.
The freedom which
increased the recognized autonomy for women, minorities, yes, and for men, to
choose their own paths in life, have been expensive. That cost has been borne by women and men,
many now dead, who put their lives on hold to stand up for the rights of those
who could not speak for themselves or who were ignored for the reasons which a
few weeks ago remained unspoken by those in the Entertainment Industry.
This could not have
happened without the collusion of thousands of individuals. It is easy to understand why so many women
and men remained silent, but those reasons do not excuse them or mitigate their
continued suffering.
One tiny step has
been taken, despite the overt nature of the sexual predators, male and female,
operating within the Entertainment Industry. But we remain in a world where the Equal
Rights Amendment is still unratified, despite the fact most believe this has
long since happened.
Linda, you have
enabled a sexual predator and then attempted to evade accountability, kicking
his victims to the curb. You admitted
this openly when you said, “I
will be the first to admit that clearly delineated moral choices can still be
painfully complex where friendship is involved. One of the best friends I will
ever have and a man I love dearly, former President Bill Clinton, has certainly
taxed my feminist conscience, but always without diminishing my affection. I
even helped write his apology to the nation for his own sexual misconduct, was
sitting next to him when he delivered it, and believe to this day it was based
on something that was none of our business. And yes, some may call it
hypocritical, but I confess to having had no problem warning at least three
top-level Democratic operatives against allowing Harvey Weinstein to host
political fundraisers. A warning that evidently (and to the glee of Fox News)
fell on deaf ears.”
There is a road out
of your hypocrisy. Read on. We need a lot more than the ratification of
the ERA, as important as that is. Hear
this, there is no space in our world for protecting predators in any arena.
Explaining you were
sympathetic when it cost you nothing should make you cringe. I’m sure Ashley Judd, Rose
McGowan and others in your industry are relieved. They can more on, heal, know they are
safe. But there are others who are not
safe, not one bit.
You recounted your personal experiences in the Entertainment
Industry. It is the same in every part
of our world where an elite, usually male, but not always, can dictate terms
which include demanding favors, sexual or other, from those beneath them. The relative power of the individual makes it
easy to ignore obligations or make demands on those who work for them or are
themselves in politics.
Every part of the political arena, corporate life, the military,
and more are subject to the same abuses. Your silence within your own industry is
mirrored in the still unresolved acts of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Much of my life was spent in GOP and Libertarian politics. It was exactly the same. As a condition of employment Ed Crane of CATO
required women who worked there to have sex with him. Crane was never a proponent of freedom but
enjoyed a half-million dollars a year for manicuring issues for his employers,
the Kochs. I exposed this but no on in
that arena cared much. There is, despite
that, a difference between being a Libertine and a Libertarian.
You don’t like Donald Trump so denouncing him is easy. Trump admitted his failing openly and apologized
to his victim. But Bill apologized to those he had not
directly victimized only after being impeached.
So where is the lesson learned? Gossip has it his behavior has not
changed. How about if we ask his Secret Service Agents? They likely know.
Corporate Officers
are also known to behave in the same way.
Ideology does not matter but power does.
Linda,
you were whining when you wrote, “As for the small screen, I myself was the creator of a man-loving,
feminist show called Designing
Women. We were arguably one
of the most progressive, loudmouthed, female series ever — unapologetically,
week after week, we showcased issues involving the objectification of women,
violence against women and sexual harassment. Out of 163 episodes, we received
one Emmy … for hairdressing. (It might be worth noting that Television Academy
voters were 80 percent male.)”
I happen to have a partner who had some comments on your
Poplar Bluff Mule memories, which play so large in Designing Women. Your characterization for your ‘designing
women,’ were your parents, descendants of the Bloodworth boys on Lester
Street. One of the boys went into law in
Poplar Bluff.
The Bloodworth boys learned about girl power from those
Brake Girls who lived across Lester Street.
The Bloodworth Boys lost a fist-fight to the four Brake girls after
bullying the recently fatherless sisters on the subject of racism. Their mother had run for Butler County Clerk
in an alliance between the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the then
Negro population, which took on the Klu Klux Klan, who bought the election with
free drinks with the quid pro quo they would vote for the Klan candidate
against the widow. Jesse Lee
Collins-Brake lost, but broke the back politically of the Klan in the Boot Heel
ever after. The young Bloodworth boys
were gloating over this loss and took it as a license to bully the girls. The Brake girls whipped their asses with
their KerPow, continuing to swim with their black friends in the Black and
Current Rivers.
Everyone, Brake and Bloodworth went home with black
eyes.
To their credit, the Bloodworth boys learned their lesson
and, thereafter, fought for desegregation and positive race relations the rest
of their lives. However, they did not
seem to communicate to you the full source of the conflict; to not bully
girls. Now, you know and we can move
on. To exonerate yourself you need to
advocate to Bill, as his ghost writer, that beyond admission of guilt, sorrow,
and apology, he needs to tell the truth about his bullying and quid pro quos
for sex and make restitution. One way he
and Hillary can do this is to reroute the $250.000 given to them by Harvey
Weinstein and instead create the Harvey Weinstein “Endowment” and add their own
millions, not as hush money, but as true restitution. Since Bill and Hillary now control $900M,
this coming after poverty when their campaign fund was down to $50,000 in March
1992, could make a dent in the ladies’ problems.
Bill and Hillary ignored all the wisdom and solutions
offered them in favor of power and money, only pretending to care about solving
so many problems.
The lives led by the Bloodworth Boys and Those Brake Girls from
Poplar Bluff could solve many of the problems Americans face today. Go back and ask your families, and some
Mules. If they don’t know, you can come
ask me.
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