What is the worst issue confronting middle aged women in 2024

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Project 2925
Loss of jobs
No fault divorce gone
Men having more power
Losing credit cards and property rights

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That I'm still paying off my student loans And now I got to get loans for my kid((((((

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

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You need to get off social media.

This response is exemplary of the increase in open misogyny from the left, particularly progressives. “Social media” doesn’t change underlying facts. You believe women can’t look around them and disagree with the orthodoxy of the progressive left on their own. You believe that women cannot look critically at some of the positions advocated by the left and reach a conclusion that disagrees with those positions. In essence, you don’t believe women can think on their own, that women are capable of independent thought outside of approved groupthink. And when faced with women who reject progressive orthodoxy, your response is to lash out and to take the position that women who disagree with progressive heterodoxy must be brainwashed by social media, influenced by Fox News (that none of us watch), or otherwise be incapable of reaching a single conflicting conclusion on our own.

And then you wonder why women, many women, see and fear a rise of misogyny as a political platform from the Democrats as well as the Republicans? You don’t even think women are capable of independent thought.

DP. I’d say men are far worse at believing the disinformation floating around social media. But women aren’t immune.

PP is correct. Get off social media.

Yep. These PPs think some little set of extreme but loud voices on social media = the Dem party. Or confuse misinformation planted out there by the right as = a Dem agenda. The lack of critical thinking and ignorance is staggering.

Get off social media and talk to real people. Real people I know who are Dems are not radical progressives. They do not diminish the events of 10/7 or diminish any sexual violence for that matter. They do not espouse misogyny.

Some women think just fine for themselves, but there are certainly some who have lost their wave in the maze of disinformation on social media.

It’s remarkable how you have to classify disagreement as the pernicious influence of social media because you cannot permit a woman the freedom to have her own independent thought. This is itself a profoundly misogynistic position and only serves to prove the point that progressive Democrats are embracing misogyny as a party platform.

Also, you are wrong. Demanding the end of sex-based sports, prison, awards, and other historic (and hard-earned) spaces for girls and women is indeed espousing misogyny. We can all see and read the statutes passed and the positions taken by elected Democrats. And we can also see what was said (or more importantly, not said) in response to 10/7.

Please stop with your Orwellian nonsense.

What does being a woman have to do with believing RWNJ propaganda? You don't get a pass to believe stupid crap just because you have a vagina.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

Your sense of reality is a little...off.

Where is she wrong?

Where is she right?

Start with the first sentence " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

Complete fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely, gravity.

thread winner

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Republicans
RW women
MAGA women
Any conservative religion

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

This

You need to get off social media.

This response is exemplary of the increase in open misogyny from the left, particularly progressives. “Social media” doesn’t change underlying facts. You believe women can’t look around them and disagree with the orthodoxy of the progressive left on their own. You believe that women cannot look critically at some of the positions advocated by the left and reach a conclusion that disagrees with those positions. In essence, you don’t believe women can think on their own, that women are capable of independent thought outside of approved groupthink. And when faced with women who reject progressive orthodoxy, your response is to lash out and to take the position that women who disagree with progressive heterodoxy must be brainwashed by social media, influenced by Fox News (that none of us watch), or otherwise be incapable of reaching a single conflicting conclusion on our own.

And then you wonder why women, many women, see and fear a rise of misogyny as a political platform from the Democrats as well as the Republicans? You don’t even think women are capable of independent thought.

DP. I’d say men are far worse at believing the disinformation floating around social media. But women aren’t immune.

PP is correct. Get off social media.

Yep. These PPs think some little set of extreme but loud voices on social media = the Dem party. Or confuse misinformation planted out there by the right as = a Dem agenda. The lack of critical thinking and ignorance is staggering.

Get off social media and talk to real people. Real people I know who are Dems are not radical progressives. They do not diminish the events of 10/7 or diminish any sexual violence for that matter. They do not espouse misogyny.

Some women think just fine for themselves, but there are certainly some who have lost their wave in the maze of disinformation on social media.

It’s remarkable how you have to classify disagreement as the pernicious influence of social media because you cannot permit a woman the freedom to have her own independent thought. This is itself a profoundly misogynistic position and only serves to prove the point that progressive Democrats are embracing misogyny as a party platform.

Also, you are wrong. Demanding the end of sex-based sports, prison, awards, and other historic (and hard-earned) spaces for girls and women is indeed espousing misogyny. We can all see and read the statutes passed and the positions taken by elected Democrats. And we can also see what was said (or more importantly, not said) in response to 10/7.

Please stop with your Orwellian nonsense.

What does being a woman have to do with believing RWNJ propaganda? You don't get a pass to believe stupid crap just because you have a vagina.

I’m just going to leave this exchange here. I don’t think I could have come up with a better example of the casual embrace of misogyny by Democrats if I tried. Thank you for being an object lesson.

As the original point said, and our Democrat apparatchik friend here is neatly demonstrating, one major problem middle-aged women face is the widespread embrace of misogyny as part of the political direction and ethos of both major political parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Project 2925
Loss of jobs
No fault divorce gone
Men having more power
Losing credit cards and property rights

Women aren’t losing credit cards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That I'm still paying off my student loans And now I got to get loans for my kid((((((

I'll call you a Waaaambulance. That's not a woman's problem. A lot of educated idiots took out loans, promised to pay them back, and now expect other taxpayers, including those who never went to college to bail them out. It's thievery. Pay your bills and stop making stupid financial decisions like spending money you don't have on a worthless degree.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

Your sense of reality is a little...off.

Where is she wrong?

Where is she right?

Start with the first sentence " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

Complete fiction.

She’s alluding to the (lack of) reaction of US left-wing press to the rape and sexual torture of women in Israel 10/7. It was astonishing that there was no outcry amongst womens’ organizations. (And on this website, the moderator spent some time denying the rape of the tattoo artist who was slain, which was surprising.)

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Pp above. And I didn’t really mean “left-wing press” reacted poorly. Weirdly, RWNJ press were the only ones to focus on the sexual torture.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve had to yell at 3 doctors in the last two years for talking down to me.

One really did hear me, one was appalled I’d speak to him that way, refused to talk to me once the tests came back and I was right.

You sound unhinged.

maybe be cause she has cause to be? that's the problem - complain about mistreatment and you are labeled a shrill, unhinged woman

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Anonymous wrote:Project 2925
Loss of jobs
No fault divorce gone
Men having more power
Losing credit cards and property rights

OMG. I hadn't heard of this. We are out side of the United States. It seems that we shouldn't plan to come back because if there is a R adminisrtation, it's ging to be REALLY bad

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Anonymous wrote:Not being able to purchase the bottom half of the shirt.

In all seriousness, I think it's sandwich generation stuff... raising kids in a time where very hands-on parenting is the norm, often while working a full-time job, while juggling aging parents.

Also, marital division of labor issues in two working-parent families. Many women my age (40) were raised that they could do anything and that has turned into doing everything.

I feel you on the shirt thing. Why is every shirt so short and boxy? These are the ugliest clothes in my lifetime, and I lived in the 70’s.