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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSight a Saturday on the wing. Please come CAPTION Lou Dobbs on women's ascendancy!!!
Last edited Sat Jun 22, 2013, 09:06 AM - Edit history (2)
Lou ("L., The bottle's in the drawer, upper right. Cheers." Dobbs is saying: "And if these trends in economic and educational disparity continue to widen, women will be the seat of power and influence the world over. . . . What do you think they'll do if they believe men are being subversive? Or too 'manly?'. . . Hasn't history taught us any lessons? . . . Will we be sent to re-education camps that teach us to be more like the new woman: shrill as a winged demon, sex crazed and mad? . . . And that might be the best alternative from our point of view. . . . I'm just asking. . . ."
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The real story is on Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/06/21/foxs-lou-dobbs-mansplains-the-mancession/194556
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Sight a Saturday on the wing. Please come CAPTION Lou Dobbs on women's ascendancy!!! (Original Post)
skip fox
Jun 2013
OP
If you substitute "black people" or "gays" for "women," you'll see how misogynist and insulting
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#2
Notice the scarcity of responses to your post? If it had been about a minority or gays, there
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#6
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. "Was it something I said?" n/t
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)2. If you substitute "black people" or "gays" for "women," you'll see how misogynist and insulting
his comments are.
I say substitute because people seem to let insulting, derogatory, misogynistic comments slide as being somehow not important.
skip fox
(19,360 posts)3. The CAPTION, of course, was creative, but it accurately channels
Dobbs's feelings and inner thoughts, and what you say about the substitution is accurate even when applied to his actual words (in the Media Matters story).
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. Notice the scarcity of responses to your post? If it had been about a minority or gays, there
would be quite a few posters with enraged responses.
But because it's about women, meh...big deal, right? It's a pattern I've noticed in DU.
skip fox
(19,360 posts)4. "And if we get out of hand, the women can make us undergo
gene therapy and sexual re-orientation and zap us with nanobots that'll make us want to paint our nails and talk sissy."
skip fox
(19,360 posts)5. "And one blogger even said my use of 'harpies' and 'whores'
indicates I was a chauvinist. . . . Geez, I'm married to a woman for Christ's sake!"