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April 30, 2011
--I'm tired of being accused of things that aren't true. I'm tired of having men attack me when I haven't hit on them, especially when those men then demonstrate their interest in me, and THEN those same men go back to abusing me when I tell them I'm not interested.
--Last night I was walking and a group of boys were playing basketball along the sidewalk and in the driveway of a house on the street. They saw me and as I passed by them on the sidewalk, one of them said "There goes a juicy one." I said nothing and kept walking. Either the same one who had made the initial comment or another said "She likes the juicy ones that come out of my butt." I kept walking, still saying nothing. They laughed as I walked away and yelled "Juicy, juicy!" after me, even though I was several yards away by then.
I turned around and went back. I asked if there was a mother around; they said "no." I knocked on the door of the house--no answer. I went around to the back to knock; as I went, some of the kids yelled "You can't do that! It's trespassing." It was a large driveway, and I saw that it was the kind of house that often has the main entrance in the back, off the driveway. I knocked on the back door; no answer.
I walked back out onto the sidewalk and told the kids not to yell the kinds of things that they'd been yelling at me, not to me or to anybody else. They yelled at me and told me their mothers weren't around, that I was trespassing and similar things. I started to walk away; they yelled something at me along the lines of how it wasn't my business to try to tell their mothers anything and I said something like "The f--- it isn't" back to them. I shouldn't have sworn at them, but it had been a long day. There were about a half-dozen of them; I would say the youngest was maybe 10, and the oldest was maybe 14.
As I walked away, I saw a man come out of the front door of a house across the street from where the kids were. I asked him if any of the kids were his. He said that one of them was. I told him what had happened and then I walked away again.
Within a minute I heard all of the boys laughing and yelling "Juicy one!! Juicy one!!" I was again several yards away by then. I went back; the man was in his truck with the windows closed. The truck was running and the boys were gathered in that driveway. The boys yelled again at me "You're trespassing!" I went to the front door of the house and knocked; no answer, as the kids again told me that I was trespassing and I told them "No, I'm just knocking on the door."
There was no answer at the door. I went back onto the sidewalk, and looked at the laughing, yelling kids. I said "Tell your dad that if this happens again I will call the police."
The kids yelled at me, "We were just laughing!" and I yelled back "TELL him that if it happens again I will call the police!"
They kept yelling at me as I walked away; I turned back and said "I can call the police now if you want."
That made them stop laughing, and I didn't hear as much yelling as I walked away for the final time.
When I walked back along that street after having completed the errand I'd first gone out to do, the street was empty.
I will say this again: I am not humiliated by the behavior of those boys.
These are my questions:
--What if, next time, it's not a group of young adolescent boys but a group of older adolescent boys? Even the group of boys from last night could have hurt me; they outnumbered me by a lot. What if, next time, it's not a group of teenagers at all, but a group of grown men? Plenty of adults have hassled me in person over the past year; what happens if some of them decide to form a group one night and "end the problem?"
--Is this how the President wants to encourage people to raise their children to behave? Is what happened last night an example of the vision that President Obama and his supporters in this situation have for the United States? It was obvious that the father encouraged the children to do what they did. Maybe the father even hopes that I'll mention the incident on my blog, and that from my doing so, he'll be applauded by the Times Argus, other newspapers and media, local and national businesses, local, national and world leaders, and various celebrities.
Is there somebody who still really thinks that what's happening isn't bullying, or that there's some justification for it? Is there somebody who still doesn't find it sickening, disturbing and all around a bad idea?
Here's another question: what if I can't count on the police to help me if that kind of thing happens again? Police departments in several towns in Chittenden County during the summer and fall of 2010 showed their support for the degradation of women, with me being the focus of harassment in particular. Several police officers appeared in community newspapers, surrounded by pedophilic references. It was the same with all of the harassment symbolism; police departments were involved and made their support for it known.
With the young teenagers last night, I threatened to call the police, and the threat worked. What if the threat was something that I couldn't follow through on? What if it becomes a threat that no woman can follow through on? What if, as a result of the push for pedophilia and degradation of women, the police stop investigating and prosecuting crimes against women and children? That would be a big, first step toward crime against women and children being legally redefined as not being crime at all.
If what I went through yesterday isn't the goal of the Obama administration for all women, then what IS the goal of that administration's behavior on these issues? Would the administration care to explain, now, what its goal is?
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--The front page of the "D" section of the Burlington Free Press for today has two articles on its front page. The first 3/4 of the page is taken up with an article called:
"GARDEN STYLES: WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING CHANGES IN YOUR LANDSCAPING, FOLLOW INDUSTRY TRENDS TO GET THE LATEST LOOKS"
Here are the captions for the pictures:
"The rooftop Garden Pavilion at Fletcher Allen Health Care, designed by H. Keith Wagner Partnership, a Burlington landscape architecture firm, is the recipient of a 2010 Vermont Public Space Award. The design incorporates edible landscape plants, raised vegetable beds, a shed that collects rainwater, soaker hoses, and an open space where cooking workshops and demonstrations are planned."
"Echinacea "Tomato Soup" is an eye-popping red and one of many new hybrids of native coneflower available.
"Volunteer Allison Jones plants climbing beans on a cedar trellis in the Children's Garden located within the rooftop Garden Pavilion. The small area will feature a Three Sisters garden with corn, beans and squash this summer."
Right next to the caption about the "Children's Garden," one of the smaller captions along the side says "Grow to eat." The caption above that one says "Build a bed."
I could go on about the other captions, but I think the idea is clear.
The article continues on page 2D, with a picture and a caption that says "The specially designed shed at Fletcher Allen Health Care's rooftop Garden Pavilion has an inverted metal roof to collect rainwater."
The second article on the front page is called "Bring on burgers in the name of world peace." It's written by a woman who moved her family to Vietnam for a year. She's writing about the times when she lets her children have American food and experiences as a break from their new, continuous experience of a Vietnamese lifestyle. Here are some excerpts from the article; in the first excerpt, she is supposedly quoting herself and her children.
"'Look! Doritos! Macaroni and cheese! Fresh milk! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Mom, I saw a guy with Pop Tarts in his cart! Remember those?"
"After an exhausting day of first-world pleasure seeking, we returned to our hotel for another luxury we have not enjoyed since leaving Vermont; a bubble bath."
(She goes on about the difference between bathing in Vermont and bathing in Vietnam for a while. Then, farther along in the article, she says this:)
"My hope is that eventually this cultural education will come full circle. My kids have learned to appreciate everything they have at home. I hope that they will one day be thankful for all they have experienced in Vietnam. It might not happen right away, but I hope that eventually they will pine for icy mango shakes, lemon juice, coconut candy and a never-ending supply of fresh squid. Perhaps, as we head into another dreary Vermont winter, they will recall fondly the warmth of their winter on the beach in Vietnam."
Next to the article by her, there's a section about "Mortgage rates," with a list of banks. Above that there's a Calendar section listing various activities, including "Getting Started in Fly Casting." There's probably more in that Calendar that I wouldn't like, but there's ALWAYS too much going on at any one time, even in one newspaper, for me to write about online.
The other article on page 2D is a home improvement article entitled "Rethink overhead heat registers." It mentions a couple of subjects; the second subject in the article is introduced in bold print as "Spring water problem."
Copyright L. Kochman April 30, 2011 @ 2:56 p.m.
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April 30, 2011
--I'm tired of being accused of things that aren't true. I'm tired of having men attack me when I haven't hit on them, especially when those men then demonstrate their interest in me, and THEN those same men go back to abusing me when I tell them I'm not interested.
--Last night I was walking and a group of boys were playing basketball along the sidewalk and in the driveway of a house on the street. They saw me and as I passed by them on the sidewalk, one of them said "There goes a juicy one." I said nothing and kept walking. Either the same one who had made the initial comment or another said "She likes the juicy ones that come out of my butt." I kept walking, still saying nothing. They laughed as I walked away and yelled "Juicy, juicy!" after me, even though I was several yards away by then.
I turned around and went back. I asked if there was a mother around; they said "no." I knocked on the door of the house--no answer. I went around to the back to knock; as I went, some of the kids yelled "You can't do that! It's trespassing." It was a large driveway, and I saw that it was the kind of house that often has the main entrance in the back, off the driveway. I knocked on the back door; no answer.
I walked back out onto the sidewalk and told the kids not to yell the kinds of things that they'd been yelling at me, not to me or to anybody else. They yelled at me and told me their mothers weren't around, that I was trespassing and similar things. I started to walk away; they yelled something at me along the lines of how it wasn't my business to try to tell their mothers anything and I said something like "The f--- it isn't" back to them. I shouldn't have sworn at them, but it had been a long day. There were about a half-dozen of them; I would say the youngest was maybe 10, and the oldest was maybe 14.
As I walked away, I saw a man come out of the front door of a house across the street from where the kids were. I asked him if any of the kids were his. He said that one of them was. I told him what had happened and then I walked away again.
Within a minute I heard all of the boys laughing and yelling "Juicy one!! Juicy one!!" I was again several yards away by then. I went back; the man was in his truck with the windows closed. The truck was running and the boys were gathered in that driveway. The boys yelled again at me "You're trespassing!" I went to the front door of the house and knocked; no answer, as the kids again told me that I was trespassing and I told them "No, I'm just knocking on the door."
There was no answer at the door. I went back onto the sidewalk, and looked at the laughing, yelling kids. I said "Tell your dad that if this happens again I will call the police."
The kids yelled at me, "We were just laughing!" and I yelled back "TELL him that if it happens again I will call the police!"
They kept yelling at me as I walked away; I turned back and said "I can call the police now if you want."
That made them stop laughing, and I didn't hear as much yelling as I walked away for the final time.
When I walked back along that street after having completed the errand I'd first gone out to do, the street was empty.
I will say this again: I am not humiliated by the behavior of those boys.
These are my questions:
--What if, next time, it's not a group of young adolescent boys but a group of older adolescent boys? Even the group of boys from last night could have hurt me; they outnumbered me by a lot. What if, next time, it's not a group of teenagers at all, but a group of grown men? Plenty of adults have hassled me in person over the past year; what happens if some of them decide to form a group one night and "end the problem?"
--Is this how the President wants to encourage people to raise their children to behave? Is what happened last night an example of the vision that President Obama and his supporters in this situation have for the United States? It was obvious that the father encouraged the children to do what they did. Maybe the father even hopes that I'll mention the incident on my blog, and that from my doing so, he'll be applauded by the Times Argus, other newspapers and media, local and national businesses, local, national and world leaders, and various celebrities.
Is there somebody who still really thinks that what's happening isn't bullying, or that there's some justification for it? Is there somebody who still doesn't find it sickening, disturbing and all around a bad idea?
Here's another question: what if I can't count on the police to help me if that kind of thing happens again? Police departments in several towns in Chittenden County during the summer and fall of 2010 showed their support for the degradation of women, with me being the focus of harassment in particular. Several police officers appeared in community newspapers, surrounded by pedophilic references. It was the same with all of the harassment symbolism; police departments were involved and made their support for it known.
With the young teenagers last night, I threatened to call the police, and the threat worked. What if the threat was something that I couldn't follow through on? What if it becomes a threat that no woman can follow through on? What if, as a result of the push for pedophilia and degradation of women, the police stop investigating and prosecuting crimes against women and children? That would be a big, first step toward crime against women and children being legally redefined as not being crime at all.
If what I went through yesterday isn't the goal of the Obama administration for all women, then what IS the goal of that administration's behavior on these issues? Would the administration care to explain, now, what its goal is?
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--The front page of the "D" section of the Burlington Free Press for today has two articles on its front page. The first 3/4 of the page is taken up with an article called:
"GARDEN STYLES: WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING CHANGES IN YOUR LANDSCAPING, FOLLOW INDUSTRY TRENDS TO GET THE LATEST LOOKS"
Here are the captions for the pictures:
"The rooftop Garden Pavilion at Fletcher Allen Health Care, designed by H. Keith Wagner Partnership, a Burlington landscape architecture firm, is the recipient of a 2010 Vermont Public Space Award. The design incorporates edible landscape plants, raised vegetable beds, a shed that collects rainwater, soaker hoses, and an open space where cooking workshops and demonstrations are planned."
"Echinacea "Tomato Soup" is an eye-popping red and one of many new hybrids of native coneflower available.
"Volunteer Allison Jones plants climbing beans on a cedar trellis in the Children's Garden located within the rooftop Garden Pavilion. The small area will feature a Three Sisters garden with corn, beans and squash this summer."
Right next to the caption about the "Children's Garden," one of the smaller captions along the side says "Grow to eat." The caption above that one says "Build a bed."
I could go on about the other captions, but I think the idea is clear.
The article continues on page 2D, with a picture and a caption that says "The specially designed shed at Fletcher Allen Health Care's rooftop Garden Pavilion has an inverted metal roof to collect rainwater."
The second article on the front page is called "Bring on burgers in the name of world peace." It's written by a woman who moved her family to Vietnam for a year. She's writing about the times when she lets her children have American food and experiences as a break from their new, continuous experience of a Vietnamese lifestyle. Here are some excerpts from the article; in the first excerpt, she is supposedly quoting herself and her children.
"'Look! Doritos! Macaroni and cheese! Fresh milk! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! Mom, I saw a guy with Pop Tarts in his cart! Remember those?"
"After an exhausting day of first-world pleasure seeking, we returned to our hotel for another luxury we have not enjoyed since leaving Vermont; a bubble bath."
(She goes on about the difference between bathing in Vermont and bathing in Vietnam for a while. Then, farther along in the article, she says this:)
"My hope is that eventually this cultural education will come full circle. My kids have learned to appreciate everything they have at home. I hope that they will one day be thankful for all they have experienced in Vietnam. It might not happen right away, but I hope that eventually they will pine for icy mango shakes, lemon juice, coconut candy and a never-ending supply of fresh squid. Perhaps, as we head into another dreary Vermont winter, they will recall fondly the warmth of their winter on the beach in Vietnam."
Next to the article by her, there's a section about "Mortgage rates," with a list of banks. Above that there's a Calendar section listing various activities, including "Getting Started in Fly Casting." There's probably more in that Calendar that I wouldn't like, but there's ALWAYS too much going on at any one time, even in one newspaper, for me to write about online.
The other article on page 2D is a home improvement article entitled "Rethink overhead heat registers." It mentions a couple of subjects; the second subject in the article is introduced in bold print as "Spring water problem."
Copyright L. Kochman April 30, 2011 @ 2:56 p.m.
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