Women's March
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
I am surprised nobody has mentioned this yet but since we are all a bunch of male chauvinist pigs I should know better.
I can say I was extremely close to deleting my Facebook account this weekend. I never post anything but seeing people post photos and comments on both sides have me convinced at least 40% of my "Facebook friends" are clinically insane. I think the best has been one woman posting photos of her in a designer dress at one of the lesser known inaugural balls, then the next photo is one dragging her 3 young boys to a March holding up feminism posters.
I'm not condoning this statement, but sorry it made me laugh:
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I can say I was extremely close to deleting my Facebook account this weekend. I never post anything but seeing people post photos and comments on both sides have me convinced at least 40% of my "Facebook friends" are clinically insane. I think the best has been one woman posting photos of her in a designer dress at one of the lesser known inaugural balls, then the next photo is one dragging her 3 young boys to a March holding up feminism posters.
I'm not condoning this statement, but sorry it made me laugh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/its_whitney/s…
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I could see that nothing good could come of it.
I've actually have know of guy's getting busted by their significant others because of their photo being tagged.
Better to keep a low profile, I say.
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You have to remember that women and men participated and, to a certain extent, the march just expressed a general revulsion toward Trump. Not just feminism. Everyone should celebrate the march -- probably the largest in US history -- as a celebration of first-amendment rights.
SJG
I think I know. It's the same confusion TiredTraveler had with "pussy grabbing" as the election played out. It's "rape culture."
I know. You're rolling your eyes. But hear me out. I think I roll enough with both cultures to maybe explain it. Google the term "why do conservatives hate college professors". There are the two sides at war here.
Seriously, it is about rape culture. The "grab 'em in the pussy thing." It started with 2nd wave feminism as a radical idea (very radical !!). This was the idea that "all penis in vagina sex was rape." Like I said, very radical. Now with 4th wave feminism, it's more mainstream but the talk is about rape. domestic violence against women, sexual assault, and locker room "rape culture" that men perpetuate. And "Grab 'em by the pussy" symbolizes that.
If you want a quick refresher on the waves of feminism, so we can discuss, or if you are just curious, then read this article by a college professor Martha Rampton. She is a professor of History and Director for the Center of Gender Equity at Pacific University. It's a decent article on the subject. Concentrate on the 2nd and 4th waves of feminism, if you want to gain an understanding of what is happening. :)
-Dominic
Four Waves of Feminism
. by Martha Rampton, Sunday, October 25, 2015
https://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/news-e…
Meanwhile, these same whack jobs are perfectly fine with Hillary's very real support of a husband who sexually abused countless girls. Just Google all the shit this guy did while he was the governor of Arkansas - it was truly amazing. In fact, she was an active member of the cleanup team and ruined many women's lives. My how short memories are.
But ok, let's talk about today. Today he is killing bad trade deals, getting ready to repeal an utterly monstrous and unsupportable health care act and is scaring companies into bringing good paying blue collar jobs back to the States. I'd call all of that a great start.
I won't repeat the goofy and emotional - almost womanly - "if you don't understand then you are an idiot" insult because you likely won't understand no matter how clearly I type it You're just too emotional. But yet I try...
I did get some common answers (from everyday women):
+ control over our reproductive systems
+ access to birth control, (subsidized for some)
+ equal pay (long with various Marxist/leftist/redistribution ideas)
+ jealousy over attractiveness (catty, both sides)
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Also here is the official paper with the office "why we march" paper. You can read it. It sounds like a P.C. inclusiveness of lefist, liberal, Bernie Sanders stuff. Some are Marxist ideas. It does read like a protest of the left. So maybe you guys are right. I stand corrected, rickdugan.
4 Page PDF file "Guiding Vision"
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^^^^^^
Source:
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/21/14342942/wo…
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--> "free society from the institution of awarding power, agency, and resources disproportionately to masculinity to the exclusion of others"
^^^ one line that stood out to me. A lot of it just reads 'Marxist' and nurture instead of nature. Am I wrong?
SJG
Walking off of jobs, or refusing them outright, is one of the most basic means of protest available. So I commend any who did such.
TwentyFive wrote, "@Dominic explaining finesse to a dinosaur is a waste of time, the problem with many of these old guys is they never put themselves in the shoes of another person the contemplate their navel because it sticks out past their dick. In other words they choose not to understand too bad for them. "
Yes indeed this is the situation we have. And this is why it is all the more important that those who are marginalized protest, and do so vigorously and in ways which are disruptive. We must resist. Otherwise we will come to a world controlled by eugenics and social Darwinism.
RickDugan wrote, "Dominic, if I never see the expression "rape culture" again it will be too soon. "
Hey, rape and the risk of rape, or of sexual harassment, are very real for women. They constantly have to adjust their motions because of such potential.
Papi wrote, "mostly leftist anti-Trumpsters still unable to accept the election results. "
No Papi, anti-Trumpsters who do not accept Trump, no matter the election result.
And yes HGR, 100 days of resistance, 4 full years of resistance.
And Dominic, what are you talking about "normal women", have you been listening to Steve Bannon? Rape is a very real risk. What gives women a good name is that some are willing to stand up for themselves.
And you are wrong in saying that it is nurture instead of nature, and that this is what Marxism amounts to.
It is the Right which has created the bogus science of Social Darwinism and claims that their views represent nature, and therefore somehow are especially privileged.
Their views simply represent a government which allows exploitation of workers and the poor, and of women, children, and minorities, and then justifies it.
Primitive societies are inclusive and collaborative, otherwise they could not function. It is our society which has created this idea that some people are legitimate and some are not. And you see this continually in the arguments of the Right, that they are correct and that those who oppose them are somehow unfit to live.
SJG
Stones, Barcelona, 1990
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