What is the worst issue confronting middle aged women in 2024

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Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

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Crime

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Anonymous wrote:Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

Yeah, it's not great out there if you are over 40. I'd even say late 30s even.

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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.)

Yes. The lack of reaction and outcry — in fact in some cases, the clear implication that the sexual torture was acceptable because the victims were Israeli — was horrific. It has reshaped my entire world view.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

How old are you?

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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.)

None of that is " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

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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.)

None of that is " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

Seems to be exactly that to me.

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Menopause

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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.

+1 I'm flabbergasted at how the left thinks allowing males to violate female spaces like sports and bathrooms is the way to go. It's misogynistic. I also agree with the Israel stuff too. It feels like we can't count on the left to protect us anymore, but neither can the right, so . . .

Yeah, it’s been a pretty distressing wake-up call. I mean I always knew the woman-hating Bernie Bro wing of the Democrats existed, but they seem to have taken over the entire party.

Women, the only man in your life who will protect you is your daddy. You're lucky if you had a daddy who loved you. It's always been this way.

[Anonymous]

Donald Trump.

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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.

+1 I'm flabbergasted at how the left thinks allowing males to violate female spaces like sports and bathrooms is the way to go. It's misogynistic. I also agree with the Israel stuff too. It feels like we can't count on the left to protect us anymore, but neither can the right, so . . .

Yeah, it’s been a pretty distressing wake-up call. I mean I always knew the woman-hating Bernie Bro wing of the Democrats existed, but they seem to have taken over the entire party.

Women, the only man in your life who will protect you is your daddy. You're lucky if you had a daddy who loved you. It's always been this way.

Idk what this has to do with the adoption of misogyny by both major political parties but okay.

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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.)

None of that is " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

Seems to be exactly that to me.

So then your sense of reality is off. The Ds aren’t taking the side of Hamas. Or rape/sexual assault.

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Anonymous wrote:Crime

Propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

Yeah, it's not great out there if you are over 40. I'd even say late 30s even.

It is great if you don’t structure your life around coupling.

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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.)

None of that is " taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. "

Seems to be exactly that to me.

So then your sense of reality is off. The Ds aren’t taking the side of Hamas. Or rape/sexual assault.

You know, no matter how much you stomp your feet and insist you can control the thoughts of all women, you cannot do so. Admittedly, this does seem to a lesson Democrats in general are learning slowly, so you have company.