New $100 Bill Layout

PREACH. I just think stamping a woman -- especially a woman of color -- on the physical embodiment of our capitalistic system would be a nice **** you to the people you have just described.

 

still waiting for this to be used somehow

 

Really? People are finally realizing that our first black president is just another scummy politician and gender is still an issue? Personally, I can't see the next president being anyone but a woman. Nobody had a problem with or made a fuss over the first gay president and that was before homosexuality was even formally acknowledged as a thing. Not even the first openly gay president got any attention for it, so why should the first black, female, and black female presidents get any kind of different treatment?

Also, Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea dollar coins exist. On the subject of Harriet Tubman, she was a total badass. Why anyone wouldn't want her on our currency is way beyond me.

 

Are you speaking gender or sex? Because the two terms are not interchangeable.

Yes, it is still an issue for the reasons I stated in my original post. When a man is more likely to get child support no matter how big of a piece of pond scum he is. The only reason that women get the children more is that the man does not ask.

I'm not going to get into my feelings on Obama because I am a paranoid as hell person.

We had a gay president? I'm afraid I don't recall such a thing. If you could point me to a credible source, it would be appreciated. And as to your second point here, a woman president has a female reproductive system. And is thus victim to the flawed logic I stated in my original post.

Yes, Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coins do exist. However, the first is a collector's item and the second is generally useless as far as actually using them. Both are legal tender but impractical. And so many people have entire rolls of Sacajawea coins stashed away in drawers that they're pretty much useless as collector's items.

 

In this one particular instance I'm using the term as it is known by the 90% of people who don't know the difference.

Wait, what? This situation happened to a neighbor of mine several years ago and he had to fight pretty damn hard to get his kids away from their mother who was quite obviously unfit to take care of them. Everyone was leaning in favor of the woman just because they felt that "children need to be with their mother" up until she was properly diagnosed with some mental illness that my parents explained to the 10 or 11 year old me as, "She's crazy." Even after that he had to fight even harder for child support because, again, the mother was thought to be incapable of earning enough money to be able to pay child support all because she was a woman.

Take this with a grain of salt because I'm remembering these events through an 11 year old's eyes, but I feel like I'm pretty credible because I remember what happened very clearly.

That's understandable.

It was never confirmed, but James Buchanan is commonly theorized as having been gay. The main evidence cited for it is that in his private life he conformed to many of the stereotypes associated with homosexuality at the time. Andrew Jackson is even quoted as referring to him and his household companion of many years, Senator William Rufus King, as "Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy." This by itself is pretty flimsy as Old Hickory was somewhat known for that kind of crude humor, but when King left for a trip to France, Buchanan reportedly told a friend of his, "I am now solitary and alone. I have gone a-wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them."

I could have sworn I had found an article about JFK being openly gay, but it turned out that was just his best friend, Lem Billings.

I also support the theories that Martin van Buren was gay, but there isn't much, if any, evidence.

Whatever the case, I'd also like to take this space to lay down a prediction on you cats. By the fifth election after 2016, a presidential candidate will come out as gay while on the campaign trail. Do not vote for him. I am 90% sure that if he wins, he will cause a huge scandal because he was never actually gay. The other 10% is that he really will be gay, but a massive disappointment to the part of the QuILTBAG community that that only voted for him because they thought he'd finally get the government working on LGBT+ rights, which he won't because our last president will have gotten us into yet another pointless war that President Gay will devote all his time to sorting out because the first duty of any good president is to fix the mistakes of the last president.

Point taken.

 

Don't do that, it actually causes a lot of confusion and lets people keep using them incorrectly...

These are not "openly gay" Presidents, just Presidents who might have been queer. It not being publicly confirmed is a huge deal. Buchanan is to date the only President who never married (the others could easily be bi or pan or something). Not only that but Presidential elections were never as public as they are nowadays, in part because they didn't have things like TVs or the internet & such, but also because not that many people could vote, let alone had the education necessary to understand the political system & political issues. The average person -- who knew Buchanan only by name, and therefore wouldn't be familiar with his mannerisms, dress, etc. -- probably didn't know anything about the President's sexuality except that he wasn't married. If a President today was suspected of being queer, rest assured that pretty much every one would at the very least know about it.

Not only that but, from a modern perspective, it's not as if most people really know Buchanan is pretty much assumed to have been queer. It's not exactly written down in history texts.

 

So is there an actual word that can used refer to both? I'd be happy to edit my post with that if there is. And really, in the world of politics does it really matter? All voters care about in terms of gender and sex is what their candidate looks like. As long as the candidate convincingly presents as a woman, xe'll be marketed as the first woman president even if pronouns and actual gender identity indicate otherwise. I'm not saying that it's right or even okay, I'm just saying that that's how things are

I already acknowledged that I was wrong about the one president that I thought was openly gay.

I should point out that I said that he conformed to the stereotypes of the day in his private life. Even if it had been like today, his mannerisms would not have reflected his sexuality while living in his public life, making this a moot point. I realize that he was closeted, but that has nothing to do with whether or not he was gay.

In short: If James Buchanan was gay, then he was the first gay president whether or not he was open about it. Further, I hold faith that he was gay even though there are other equally satisfying explanations for his many personal quirks.

Funny you should mention that. There was a semi-recent thing going around in the tabloids about Obama being gay. I hadn't heard about it until I went searching for that article on Buchanan, but it happened.

And that's kind of a shame, if you ask me.