Virginia Dems Have Their Panties in a Twist

by Kerry Dougherty

This is what triggers Virginia Democrats today:

There was an exchange at the Virginia Capitol between Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, who presides over the State Senate, and Sen. Danica Roem of Prince William County.

Roem identifies as a woman, although Roem was born a man. The politically correct crowd insists that failing to use feminine pronouns for someone like Roem is “misgendering.” A sin invented by the left.

Roem stormed out of the Senate chamber after Sears addressed her as “sir.” Several other senators with their panties in a twist followed. Eventually Sears apologized.

Sheesh.

Look, my main problem with the trans movement is when children are involved. And the trans movement is actively recruiting kids. It needs to stop.

Beyond that, children shouldn’t be chemically castrated, sterilized with hormone blockers or have their body parts carved up because they’re confused. And no child should be allowed to pretend to be a member of the opposite sex in school without the permission of their parents.

Biological males should be banned from playing sports with biological females and they need to be forbidden to enter traditional girls’ safe spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

That said, adults may do what they want. If a man wants to put on lipstick and wear a dress, fine.

What they cannot do is force the rest of us to play along.

Oh, and as a writer I don’t play the pronoun game.

When I write about “trans” adults I don’t use pronouns. I use their names or titles. It’s a workaround that doesn’t violate my beliefs that gender isn’t just something “assigned” at birth. It’s what we are. Forever.

Being a woman is a marvelous thing. We can conceive a baby, gestate it, give birth and feed that child.

No one else can do that.

When men prance around in woman-face they mock what it means to be a female. Being a woman isn’t just long hair, bosoms and lipstick. It’s so much more and men will never experience that, just as we women will never experience male puberty and all that goes with being a man.

Winsome Sears is loathed by the left. There is nothing they detest more than a conservative person of color. They were waiting to pounce on her for something and this week they had their moment.

One more thing.

No woman I know would throw a hissy fit if someone accidentally called her “sir.”

Is it possible the Democrats are so afraid of Winsome Sears — she’s a possible GOP candidate for governor — that they were secretly delighted that they found a little trigger this week?

Republished with permission from Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited.


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51 responses to “Virginia Dems Have Their Panties in a Twist”

  1. walter smith Avatar
    walter smith

    Understand the Left. Do not apologize. That makes you conform to their craziness.
    Not trying to be mean. Trying to help you understand the game the Left plays.
    Once they struggle session you and you give in, then they know they have you.
    It’s why they never attack their own, no matter how outrageous, and why if one of their own does apologize, he or she is kicked off the island as an ally who cannot be trusted.

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      I haven’t been paying attention. I don’t really care either way. If an adult wishes to be referred to in a certain way, it is polite to do so, but Roem just got to the Senate this year and it is possible Sears just slipped. Was that actually the first time she recognized that senator from the podium? Of course not. If you don’t want to use the female pronoun, just say, “for what purpose does the senator rise” or “yes senator” or “no senator.”

      I can go with panties in a twist. Tempest in a teapot is more polite, too. The large chip on that particular shoulder has been obvious for a long time. Put the shoe on another foot — had she referred to a male with “yes, maam,” would that person turn into drama queen and storm out?

      1. Not Today Avatar
        Not Today

        “– had she referred to a male with “yes, maam,” would that person turn into drama queen and storm out?”

        Yes – and would have marched straight over to the first Fox News microphone to rail about it for the next two months.

  2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
    James Wyatt Whitehead

    You can watch the video on the GA Senate streaming site. This entire episode is so overblown. Roem replaced Bob Marshall in Prince William. Storming out like that was the same kind of melodrama Marshall was famous for.

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      No, he would have made a motion to challenge the chair! Or censure the chair! And gotten one vote. 🙂 Hey, he was fun. He was elected on my watch and was always entertaining, and smarter than many gave him credit for. Nobody remembers the boring ones.

    2. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      No, he would have made a motion to challenge the chair! Or censure the chair! And gotten one vote. 🙂 Hey, he was fun. He was elected on my watch and was always entertaining, and smarter than many gave him credit for. Nobody remembers the boring ones.

    3. how_it_works Avatar
      how_it_works

      The area of Prince William near Manassas, to be clear.

      When she was a delegate, her district included Manassas Park.

      1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
        James Wyatt Whitehead

        Congratulations! You passed the misgender test. MP. Splains everything.

        1. how_it_works Avatar
          how_it_works

          The “Virginia Addendum” to the corporate sexual harassment training I took the other day says that “not using preferred pronouns” is sexual harasment.

          This year it will have been 7 years since I moved out of Manassas Park.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar

            Question is… was Winsome Sears trying to be nice nice or what?

          2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
            James Wyatt Whitehead

            Snake Plissken came to the rescue! It is really good for me to be out of the classroom. I struggled with the misgender test. Hard enough to keep track of 150 names per year.

          3. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I know a guy that just calls everyone whose name he doesn’t remember “sparky”.

          4. Not Today Avatar
            Not Today

            How’s employee retention?

          5. Not Today Avatar
            Not Today

            Which I’ve been saying here for several months. Repeatedly and intentionally calling people something other than their preferred name *is* harassment. It doesn’t matter if it’s honey, sweety, love, beefcake, rocketman or anything else. It’s not OK. Call people what they want to be called, PERIOD.

  3. William O'Keefe Avatar
    William O’Keefe

    The size of a person can be determined by the size of things that anger them. Much ado about nothing in my opinion.

  4. SO if a man can dress up like a woman and all should allow it… can a white now dress up in black face and all should also allow it? please explain the logic.

    or we can ‘follow the science’ — you either have an outie or an inie.

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

      Are you saying you have been pining to dress up in black face?

  5. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
    Dick Hall-Sizemore

    Upon watching the video of the Senate proceedings, it seems to me that Roem overreacted. Earle-Sears did not address Roem as “sir” while looking directly at her. Rather, it was an off-hand response while Earle-Sears was reaching for some documents. Roem shoulde have waited until the floor session was over, or during a recess, and talked to the Lt. Gov. about it.

    For her part, Earle-Sears did a little overreacting herself. Coming out the recess after finding out why Democratic Senators had walked out, she seized upon the chance to complain that she, too, had been treated with less dignity and respect she deserved. She apologized for her remark, saying that she had not intended to offend Roem and then proceeded to strongly lecture the Senators on the need to treat everyone with respect, pointing out that that sometimes they had acted like children.

    The proceedings can be found here:
    https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6664

    The exhanges begin at 1:36:15 and continue through 1:51:21, which includes a big gap when the Senate is “at ease”.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      You’re way too forgiving. She knew to whom she was speaking and was continuing to speak to her even as she turned away.

      1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
        James Wyatt Whitehead

        I think it was an honest mistake. Did you notice how fast Sears was rolling through the vote counts on endless bills to get as many done as possible?

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          We differ. On your side is work related distraction. On my side is party related predisposition.

          1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
            James Wyatt Whitehead

            We should thumb wrestle. I will play left handed since I have these weird extra long thumbs.

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            You too? My middle and ring fingers are the same length, and in my prime, I could two-finger type faster than the company secretary. Alas left won’t do, arthritic left thumb.

      2. Thomas Carter Avatar
        Thomas Carter

        If she wasn’t looking at him/her and heard a masculine voice….

      3. Thomas Carter Avatar
        Thomas Carter

        If she wasn’t looking at him/her and heard a masculine voice….

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          Do you ask all fat ladies, “When are you due?”

          1. Thomas Carter Avatar
            Thomas Carter

            If I am not looking at them, why would I?

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6664

            In the case you have Alzheimer’s, maybe.

            1:36:00 Winsome Sears LOOKED straight at Roem and spoke to her. What did she do, look away and forget in one second?

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=6664

            In the case you have Alzheimer’s, maybe.

            1:36:00 Winsome Sears LOOKED straight at Roem and spoke to her. What did she do, look away and forget in one second?

          4. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            That’s DIFFERENT than the version being proffered here in the bog and by others responding. If she actually DID look and then DID say sir, it’s not an “accident”.

  6. Once upon a time in the ancient history of our land (the 1970s or so), it was common parlance to address women either as Mrs. (if they were married) or Miss. Feminists declared that nomenclature to be sexist, and they insisted upon Ms. The difference between then and now is that people didn’t fly into rages and denounce offenders as misogynist bigots when they failed to comply. It took time — maybe a couple of decades — but Americans gradually accepted the practice of using Ms.

    Had feminists adopted the trans strategy of politicizing and denouncing those who refuse to comply with their cultural diktats, I suspect the outcome would have been very different. Today, many Americans rebel against the idea of someone dictating politically motivated changes in grammar. Throwing temper tantrums only strengthens their resolve to resist, all the more so now that we live in a culture in which he who gets the most pissed off wins.

    It is not inconceivable that Americans would gradually come to accept the use of pronouns to reflect gender self-identity, if only because most of us want to be polite and solicitous to others. But there’s a strong streak of saying f—- you to anyone who tries to coerce us.

    So, good for Winsome-Sears.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Nowadays, we have Crocodile Trump to tell us what’s what…
      Start at 1:10

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKOsytp0F0

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Nowadays, we have Crocodile Trump to tell us what’s what…
      Start at 1:10

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKOsytp0F0

    3. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Nowadays, we have Crocodile Trump to tell us what’s what…
      Start at 1:10

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKOsytp0F0

    4. Randy Huffman Avatar
      Randy Huffman

      She did apologize – here

      ” I apologize, I apologize, I apologize,” Sears said during a session of the Virginia Senate. “And I would hope, I would hope, that everyone would understand there is no intent to offend, but that we will also give each other the ability to forgive each other.”

      https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4491470-virginia-lieutenant-governor-apologizes-after-misgendering-state-senator/

      This reaction is way over the top and the majority of Virginian’s can see right through it.

    5. Eric the half a troll Avatar
      Eric the half a troll

      She could have just said “Senator”. Sorry but Winsome-Sears showed the world that she does not understand common decency nor how to be polite to others. Are you sure you want to applaud such actions?

  7. James Kiser Avatar
    James Kiser

    It is a man and nothing and nothing can change that. The rest is hollywood special effects.

  8. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    So, Sears is a disrespectful person. What else ya got?

  9. Wahoo'74 Avatar

    Kerry, problem is you’re using logic based on facts. The Left doesn’t. They operate via feelings justified by political dogma.

  10. Thomas Dixon Avatar
    Thomas Dixon

    I’m waiting for the unicorn to show up although I don’t know what pronouns are required.

  11. The best pronoun by which to address people is y’all.

    It is gender neutral, and while it is technically plural, it is not uncommon for it to be used in singular form.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      And the is plural, “all y’all”

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      And the is plural, “all y’all”

      1. An excellent example of its versatility.

    3. how_it_works Avatar
      how_it_works

      It’s “you guys” where I came from. Although you might think it’s not gender neutral, it is in fact gender neutral, used the same exact way “y’all” is.

      1. LarrytheG Avatar

        yep – use it all the time with guys and gals… as well as y’all…

        I wonder if Winsome Sears talks that way?

        1. DJRippert Avatar

          In Jamaican Creole, y’all would be Unnu.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar

            is that what she uses when she addresses the guys and gals in the GA?

          2. WayneS Avatar

            Probably not, but I think it would be cool if she did.

      2. Paul Sweet Avatar

        It should be illegal to say “you guys” (or “youse guys”) anywhere south of New Jersey!

    4. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      In Front Royal, VA the preferred pronoun is Yee and Haw.

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