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In reply to the discussion: sexism, lets play. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)But nice try - how about you spend a little time trying to debate me on things instead of telling people how you think they feel on issues?
Along with racism, homophobia, bigotry against those with mental or physical disabilities, and overall the keeping down of the masses by a few.
Some threads I have posted on this got pretty wild and a ton of replies - from sexist men like big boobs to the ford ad as two examples (both from websites I have in my bookmarks tool bar and read several times a day).
Both of those exposed sexism.
Now it has been said by some, or at least implied, that I posted such things simply to piss off people. And also that I don't care about these issues - in part because I don't always agree on certain wordings.
But it is the tactics mainly. And then I got to noticing certain things. And just like those who notice things about me and want to bring them to light all over the cause of feminism I thought perhaps I would do the same.
I posted some stories today, as I often do, from the sites I frequent.
One was on the use of mannequins
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022594370
I have also posted about Rachel Corrie.
Also :
About the rapes and executions in Iraq:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022594424
Sexist judge:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022582947
You can hear a pin drop in those threads so loud you would need earplugs.
---------------- Ok, I could go on and on, but let me get to the point here.
We have three groups here on DU with the label Feminists.
Go look at all three.
On two of them you see good stories and posts about women the world over being screwed over by the jackholes in power.
You will see folks wanting to bring awareness to the issue and expose the problems.
And in the last group you will see mostly posts about DU itself and the people here. People complaining others don't get it. Don't care. Don't want to talk about it how they want to talk about.
The folks in the last group you won't see a lot of making posts in the other two groups.
Problem here is that there are many, many, people who care about the treatment of women in the world - as well as other groups - but there are some who say they are feminists who want to spend all of their energy attacking their allies instead of bringing to light news articles exposing how women are being screwed over (and again, want to add, not just women).
From health care to poverty, religious nut jobs, abortion laws, drug wars, regular wars sucking away our money and kids into oblivion, - no, to some the problem is your fellow posters who care about those issues and spend day in and out exposing corruption and abuse of power that affects all of us.
Dongles. Holding open doors. Naked women. Those may be what you see as the biggest and most terrible things going on but those of us who get around in the news would call those 'first world problems' - if a woman being raped and tortured could trade places with someone at a conference hearing a joke I am damn well betting she would.
So spend your time on such issues, I am sure women the world over being oppressed and beaten/raped/murdered are happy that you want to expose how evil some men are on DU because they didn't get as pissed off as you over dongles and doors while not even taking the five damn minutes it would take you to post news articles covering their plight.
You could do both like many others do of course. But you choose only one.