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MADem

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14. I wasn't feeling all that great in the airport!

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #13)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 04:53 AM

Dec 2015

Everybody has a place and a space where they feel like they're settled in, at ease, familiar. Really lucky people--like me--have several of these places.

Oregon just isn't mine, though. I wouldn't ever want to live there.

That's fine--I've got plenty of places where I feel at home. And I wouldn't crowd out someone who likes the idea of that place!

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The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified. [View all] SunSeeker Dec 2015 OP

Well, those are three of the most intolerant bastions in our nation. MADem Dec 2015 #1

Oregon???? JDPriestly Dec 2015 #5

If you're black--hell yes Oregon. It was founded as a RACIST Utopia. MADem Dec 2015 #8

Have you been there? JDPriestly Dec 2015 #9

Yes--I have been to Astoria quite briefly and I got the hell out of there as quick as I could. MADem Dec 2015 #11

Astoria isn't the same as Portland, FWIW. It's much more of a small town place. n/t pnwmom Dec 2015 #13

I wasn't feeling all that great in the airport! MADem Dec 2015 #14

I know what you mean. pnwmom Dec 2015 #18

I will defend Portland. I recently was there and we stayed in a popular downtown hotel randys1 Dec 2015 #26

Except the purpose of this tour was to study the treatment of WOMEN. pnwmom Dec 2015 #12

Well, there are women who are people of color, so I think that might apply. MADem Dec 2015 #15

I don't think Oregon is a place that has a special problem with gender equality. pnwmom Dec 2015 #16

We will have to wait for their report, I guess, to learn what they found. MADem Dec 2015 #17

It will be interesting! pnwmom Dec 2015 #19

If they went to SF they would have faced pretty much the same stuff Lordquinton Dec 2015 #20

Well, I think they are looking for access to services for women, and focusing on minority women MADem Dec 2015 #21

That's pretty universal Lordquinton Dec 2015 #22

I understand exactly what you mean regarding Oregon. When I was in a "on the road" band,... BlueJazz Dec 2015 #23

It's just a feeling of comfort and ease that was missing. I felt like I didn't belong there. MADem Dec 2015 #24

I'm horrified, too. Every day. We're so Dark Ages here. southerncrone Dec 2015 #2

I agree that is true for the US, but less so in Portland, Oregon than in many other areas of the US. JDPriestly Dec 2015 #6

... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #3

sorta sad how women are willing to put up with this, being more than half the population nt msongs Dec 2015 #4

K&R. JDPriestly Dec 2015 #7

Me, too. They are all economic issues, as well. southerncrone Dec 2015 #29

I was actually surprised when BlueMTexpat Dec 2015 #10

Thank you, because I Lifelong Protester Dec 2015 #25

We must not be surprised. Also, we are WAY behind the times as to never having randys1 Dec 2015 #27

Indeed. nt SunSeeker Dec 2015 #28