coming up the war on women and blatant sexism have found a home within the republican party. how do we stop the patriarchy and anti-female bigotry in the republican party and give women more power and freedom in american society. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. it's thursday so let's get geeky on grasshoppers were the web of life or the idea that our thoughts change our bodies and the world around us well it's far more complicated complicated and complex than you ever imagined researchers at yale university and he were university in israel have discovered that grasshoppers who die frightened have a huge effect on our ecosystem according to researchers a grasshopper that is scared by an attack or like a spider will become stressed and eat larger amounts of carbohydrates and sugar rich plants similar the way people tend to eat more sweets when they're stressed when the grasshopper eats more car bridge plants this change in diet causes chemical changes

just like jesus, be a shameless pervert while with the possibility of sexism and paternal. just like jesus, i want to hear the voice of my farther. bask in the stars, this is not an end but a beginning. a sepia tone of martarism. i want my engage capturred. to frame the minds of ignorants. while blindly following leaders. i want to be nestled, half naked against your chest. claiming your spirit when you come. with the promise of salvation. i simply want to life before i die. i have two more poems. this is all new. wrote it for harold bloom. he first called it the death of art and. reading well is one the greatest pleasures. i am dedicating to harold bloom. i am not a poet. i want to be rich. i have had a great sex life. i am not a poet. georgia i do not like being called an act visit. i cannot be considered a vegetarian. i will give my ass up and like it. i would be inspired. i may value peace, but will not use a pen to unleash my anger. i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read

[inaudible] sexism, regionalism, we can go on and on with the isms. i am the oldest granddaughter of james leon, he is a monster fighting and so am i. that comes from southern tales of supernatural. a porch lie is not a mean or vicious lie, it is a story of exaggeration and humor. the one that loretta told you about, cake lawrence. all the people that knew him called him cake, he used to steal the warm cake that his mother put out. he would cut a slice and run off to the crawl space. they call him cake. i use that in my story. those 2 come from my grandmother, she was the germ, the seed of those 2 books and many others. let's go back to that front porch again. this time daddy james is the story teller. we sit at his feet and listen about stories about sara and pat and nollen. that is my brother, my sister, and me. we thought we were just as clever and smart and just as brave as the children in his story. he told stories vaguely familiar, but different some how because he told them his way. you see, i had no idea my grandfather was a functional illiter

energy and heating a big building >>> anne mackovic in san jose for cbs 5 >>> in the battle of the sexism and win in the battle for bacteria. a study of offices in san francisco and other big cities men have more bacteria in their work space than women. men have tended 20 percent more bacteria, the reason is not clear had smarts believe that is because women wash their hands more often. >>> after a public rejection 30 years ago, art turned history on display again, the best known is the portrait of george a likeness of slain mayor george mosconi produced by an artist in 1981, it is something of a gruesome mass bullet holes on the pedestal and a reference to the so-called " twinkie defense " of supervisor dan white. >>> and it was rejected by the san francisco arts commission in 1981 i have lusted after this art for many years, if i felt this piece had to come to s f moma at some point >>> and i think most people at the time it is not an event you'll ever forget, it is sirte in to me i can understand why a originally people did not want to accept it that time has passed and we understand i

it is fear that accounts for racism, sexism, xenophobia. i feel like if i can get past the the fear and to say i am afraid to do that and i will do it anyhow, that is the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. i think i have that fearlessness even as a young person that was not tempered by experience or wisdom. tavis: wonderful piece of the book where you talk about the fact that accidents the germans so much what happens in our lives. tell me more. >> it is really true. i have this fabulous college education. at college, i met the man to whom i have been married for 34 years and is the father of the three kids. i seriously considered going to another college and my life would be completely different in every way. these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs and moving into an apartment where you make new friends and confidants, going to win city over another, sometimes they are completely arbitrary decisions. you haven't put as much thought into it as you should have that they changed the course of your whole life. tavis:

need to like put it with don and say that i need to be paid more this sort of raises and that's so sexism i feel like there's look i'm it really men feel that they have a higher power for women just in any sort of sense even the workplace socially it just doesn't make sense to me according to the institute for women's policy research females working on wall street or. in real estate face the largest earnings gaps making as much as forty percent less than their male counterparts. in those occupations when the. big way to have some is in part because it's hard to access that. there is like that old boys' network and i don't remember the miracle of your best friend or your worst enemy america's old boys' network of the one nine hundred sixty s. depicted in the show mad men who put a man in there a salute to good seriously seems to still permeate in most corporations today less than sixteen percent of fortune five hundred companies reportedly have a woman on the board. facebook has none facebook is a company whose success is really due to the participation of women on its platform more than s

talk about sexism, like the remarks made last night. it was an invisible world, and here we would sgee the white house sboe ingo into the white house and get nothing. the deputy assistants and whatnot, but if you talked to their secretaries and they felt comfortable, weren't represented by somebody from the white house staff that worked outside, including remarkably john's own secretary, who was a very forthright person and gave us enormous help. that's when we began to realize we could reconstruct things. so there was a day, i remember going to the monica restaurant right near capitol hill. they have paper -- cloth tops -- >> tablecloths. >> over the regular white tablecloth and we sat there and said, this is not the way to investigate. i was systems analyst among other things and made an organizational chart of the white house. the question was, here's nixon. here's dean. we knew from john's testimony john didn't have notes, material, little on the meetings with the president. there wasn't going to be paper documentation. we had to fi

and michelle has to put up with the double-whammy of sexism.w. it started with hilary in the 90s with the sexism. >> stephanie: do you think they're more sexist, racist or homophobic. >> caller: it's pretty bad. it frustrates me as a woman. i'm old. i came of age in the 1950s and 60s and i remember racism and sexism at a little girl. i knew there was something wrong with the system. michelle is a beautiful woman. i met her just for 50 seconds and i thought i can't believe these old white guys are still stuck. >> stephanie: i know, i know. there are a lot of ifs andisms"" in this republican party. and yeah i talk to sury too too much. she's the only one who will talk to me. >> what if you can't talk to her. then you're sol. >> stephanie: charlie pierce is next. [[vo]]joy behar is coming to current tv for one week only until the fall. what happens if you ask her to tone down her opinions? >>sorry, i can't hear you. what? [[vo]]or tell her she has to it starts at $59 for the entire year for back up. put in code stephanie for your subscription. 18

establishment i mean i think there was a lot of things about it really precious there's a lot of sexism and anti-semitism of criticism imbedded in that in clubbiness and cetera but i do think that the inequality that we see now does create what i call in the book social distance i think the the the meritocratic elite the people of the who are moving between power in public life and in the private sector are increasingly socially distant from the country in which they are making decisions that are going to affect the mass of the populace and that's a little distance has real consequences and that i think is distinct about this era and i should say look i think you know societies that have leads are prone to certain kinds of dysfunction in different kinds of social orders with different kinds of elites have different kinds of dysfunctions when i'm describing the book or what our particular model has and the particular crises that it has brought down our heads but you know social distance an example of how that works i mean here's here's a perfect example and this gets your point about wha