Bacon Bits: Snitchers and Whingers

The only good snitch is a woke snitch.

 The Loudoun County School Board has introduced a “Bias Reporting” form as part of its “Detailed Action Plan to Combat Systemic Racism,” reports the Washington Times. “The specific reason behind this action step is to utilize it as a means to amplify and elevate student voice,” a schools spokesman told the Times. A 2019 “systemic equity assessment” had revealed that some students “felt marginalized or had experienced bias.” A Loudoun County parents group, Fight for Schools, termed “Orwellian” a system where students and parents can anonymously report other students for “bias.”

Whinging about women’s rights. Mary Sue Terry, the first woman elected as Attorney General in Virginia, is still stumping for women’s rights — and she sounds as if little has changed in a hundred years. “A 100 years ago a man could beat his wife with impunity, women weren’t allowed to own property, they couldn’t vote, it was ingrained in them at a sub-conscious level to feel like they were not powerful,” Terry told a Martinsville-area gathering Sunday, reports the Martinsville Bulletin.

Balderdash. Women have been able to own property in the U.S. since the 18th century, and in an unrestricted way since 1900. In my history of the Massey family, I recounted how Wilmoth Massey, who owned a farm adjacent (or very nearby) the Terry family farm in Patrick County inherited the property after her husband’s death around the turn of the 20th century. As for the right to vote, women’s suffrage was enacted in 1920– 101 years ago. Do I really need to recite all the ways — mental illness, suicides, over-medication, dropout rates, college attendance, life expectancy, the denigration of dads as dolts, legal rights for children — in which men get the short end of the stick? Can you imagine all the blubbering we would hear if the disparities were reversed?


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27 responses to “Bacon Bits: Snitchers and Whingers”

  1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    More Conservative white male victimhood on display, JAB…

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Democracy Thieves in Sunlight.

  2. tmtfairfax Avatar
    tmtfairfax

    One of my 5th great grandfathers owned property along the Susquehanna River in the Colony of Pennsylvania. He sided with the English during the American Revolution and died of small pox. My 5th great grandmother inherited the property and operated it with her children.

    As explained earlier, the state government of Pennsylvania confiscated the property as posthumous punishment for “treason.” The English government gave the widow some land in the remote Gaspe area of what is now Quebec. MST is wrong to the extent she argues women could not own real estate in what is now the United States. And I don’t suspect that, small pox not claimed my grandfather’s life, the confiscation of the property would have been the same.

  3. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Oh my Gawd! Coverture in Va Law in 2019?? Coverture is the “wife as chattel” principle….

    http://library.law.virginia.edu/ajm-blog/2019/08/22/your-legal-rights-as-a-woman-a-handbook-for-virginians/

    “The second place is section 55-38, a statute that states the wife’s right of entry into land cannot be barred by judgments during or after her husband’s lifetime.[5] Ironically, the word “coverture” appears in statutes that recognize women as legal persons independent of their husbands. In fact, these sections are scheduled to be repealed in October 2019 and replaced by revised sections that continue to use the word “coverture.” This means that the word “coverture” has been a part of Virginia law since the colony’s founding over 400 years ago and still is to this day.[6] To me at least as a scholar, the appearance of “coverture” in the state code raises the question of whether it was ever really abolished, or if it was simply reformed and remains part of our legal framework. Even though dower and coverture might seem like antiquated legal tools that we rightly dismissed long ago in the name of equity, they recently informed, and in the case of coverture may still inform, the way women are treated under the law in Virginia. These legal relics are one of the reasons why women would still find a handbook like this one useful today.”

    1. Scott McPhail Avatar
      Scott McPhail

      Coverture is in no sense the “‘wife as chattel’ principle”
      Blackstone wept.

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        Oh well, just can’t trust lawyers…

        https://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120f02/america/marriage/

        “Under the doctrine of coverture, a woman was legally considered the chattel of her husband, his possession.”

        1. Scott McPhail Avatar
          Scott McPhail

          I’m sorry but that “source” is not a “lawyer”. It a webpage from a History 102 course taught at George Mason University. A course by the way in which the only required text is Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States.

  4. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
    Dick Hall-Sizemore

    I am not sure what point Mary Sue Terry was trying to make, but the discrimination against women has been manifest throughout the twentieth century. Some examples:

    1. Marriage bar–often, it was the practice not to hire married women or to let women go after they married. (This practice was relaxed considerably during World War II.) Source is one of your favorites, Jim, the National Bureau of Economic Research.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar

    2. Unequal pay. It was common to pay women less than men for the same position. Lily Ledbetter brought suit against the Goodyear company after she discovered that her male colleagues in the same supervisory position were being paid much more than she was. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against her because of a statute of limitations issue. The first bill that President Obama signed provided more flexibility for women to bring suit for unequal pay.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/us/politics/30ledbetter-web.html
    3. Sexual violence. I once heard a prominent member of the Virginia House of Delegates, who was a lawyer, say, that he tells his clients who are having a marital dispute, “a husband cannot rape his wife.”

    1. tmtfairfax Avatar
      tmtfairfax

      I think everyone would agree that there has been both de jure and de facto discrimination against women in the United States. But women have owned real estate, which is is property.

  5. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
    James Wyatt Whitehead

    It is important to note the Loudoun County school system is REQUIRED to implement the Bias Reporting System. This mandate comes from the Office of Civil Rights and signed by AG Mark Herring. No vote on this. No parental input. No hearing. Edict from on high by our wise useful Silver Knight Mr. Herring. You can find it here bottom of page 4 and top of page 5.
    https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/domain/12/2020-2021_files/RESOLUTION_AGREEMENT_In%20Re_LCPS_2021-02-18_Fully_Endorsed.pdf

    1. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
      Dick Hall-Sizemore

      I’m confused. The policy that you pointed to on pages 4 and 5 of the linked document is the process that has been in place for years for students and parents to report on discrimination, including harassment. According to the linked document, that policy and form was last revised in 2013, which means that it has been in place since before 2013. As part of this agreement, the school system is revising and updating the policy and form. So, if this general policy and form for reporting discrimination has been in force for at least ten years, why all the ruckus now?

      1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
        James Wyatt Whitehead
        1. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
          Dick Hall-Sizemore

          I must be dense. I don’t see where anything is “laid out”. Those last two sentences only say that drafts are being revised.
          As for the second linked document, I had already looked at that and couldn’t find anything. Thanks for pointing out the passage on page 18 that I missed. I realize that it can be abused, but I see nothing inherently wrong in giving minority students an opportunity to relate incidents of harassment, discrimination, etc. If the “reports” are anonymous, I doubt they could be used in any disciplinary action, but they provide a way for school administrators to find out what is going on in their schools, without the students having to publicly go to the “principal’s office”.

          You used to teach in Loudoun. Haven’t these forms to report on discrimination been in place for many years before now?

          1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
            James Wyatt Whitehead

            Just spoke with a former colleague who is on paid adminstrative leave over a false flag racial incident. I told him he needs to lawyer up. The principal and the Loudoun Education Association will not be there for him. What is happening in Loudoun is a modern day version of HUAC.

          2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
            James Wyatt Whitehead

            I found a bit more today Mr. Dick from the Virginia Star. It seems the LCPS Action Plan incorporated Share, Speak Up, Speak Out Bias Reporting form. The action plan was part of AG Herring’s review and eventual approval. I know one teacher who is on paid leave right now because of this form. Outstanding educator. One of the best. He thinks he was reported for giving a student a poor grade in the 3rd quarter.
            Dangerous recipe for false flags.
            https://thevirginiastar.com/2021/05/27/new-method-allows-loudoun-county-students-to-make-false-hate-reports-parents-warn/

  6. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Oh boy!! A new word, “whinge”, and I know exactly on whom to use it!

    Aye, but if memory serves at some point in Virginia law, probably colonial, a wife was chattel. Although mooted, in the just the last century, if a man took a job that required moving the household and his wife refused to move, he could sue for divorce under the grounds of abandonment, but she could not. The husband was the defacto head of the household.

    Here it is: https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Women’s_Legal_Rights_in_Wythe’s_Time

    You go George Wythe

    But WAIT! Here for you UVa boys… a handbook written in 1977 by women at UVa Law School … based on a 1972 course offering by women faculty under the guidance of two male faculty members. 1972? Really, men had to be in charge? In 1972? Is there a Critical Sex Theory under which you UVa boys could be “re-educated”?
    http://library.law.virginia.edu/ajm-blog/2019/08/22/your-legal-rights-as-a-woman-a-handbook-for-virginians/

    1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      Indeed, colonial women of Virginia were under the coverture of their husbands. Married women virtually had no rights. However, due to high mortality rates amongst the men in Jamestown, women as widows were the most free women in North America. Widows could assume control of her deceased husband’s property, retain control of that property when she remarried, had legal status in a court of law, could engage in contracts, arrange business deals, and could arrange wills. Single adult women also had some of these rights.

      Virginia’s first woman at Jamestown, Temperance Flowerdew, was married 4 times and amassed a fortune thru inheritance.

      Colonial Virginia did indeed have a “plantation elite”, but the mother colony also had a small “widowocracy” that wielded significant economic power.

      Martha Dandridge inherited all of the wealth of her husband Daniel Park Custis. Custis was one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. But when George Washington swept the middle aged widow off of her feet, he had no say whatsoever over the Custis estate. That was controlled only by Martha. The father of our country had to make his own money to spend.

      1. WayneS Avatar

        Maybe that explains the high mortality rates amongst the men in Jamestown…

  7. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    “Do I really need to recite all the ways — …, life expectancy,… — in which men get the short end of the stick?”

    Men die first in marriages because we choose to.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Women take better care of themselves so they’re to blame for that…..

  8. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    You can tell this is a Republican blog. Comments that contain or reference facts in opposition to Conservative opinions receive “down” votes.

    1. Matt Adams Avatar
      Matt Adams

      Your comments are devoid of facts and are merely the ramblings of a supercilious liar.

  9. Loudoun students and parents should use the system and report ANY/ALL transgressions of the wokanistas! Everyday, all day, all the time. Bury the admin in paperwork!!!!

    1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      They have the resources in place to deal with this. Every middle school and high school has a Dean of Equity and an extensive support bureacracy at the school board office. Teachers are going to have to read pre made lessons scripts to the letter with no comments that deviate from the script. The Fatherland is watching. Oh yeah. Don’t forget that everyone passes this year in Loudoun. Direct orders from the super. No kidding.

  10. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    McAuliffe is using a campaign logo that just says “Terry” and looks much like I recall from hers in 1993. Need to go look that up. I think he is trying to pretend he too is a woman running for Guv…..

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