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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the substantive difference between "Believe Women" and "Believe All Women?"[/quote]
"Believe Women" means "don't assume women as a gender are especially deceptive or vindictive, and recognize that false allegations are less common than real ones (Sandy Doyle, 2017)."  It asks you not to dismiss us out of hand, to seriously consider that we might be telling the truth about sexual assault and rape and abuse. "Believe women" is a necessary slogan because for millenia, no one did.

Conservatives have recently added the word "all" to the phrase.  "Believe [i]all [/i]women" is used almost exclusively by Republicans, the same way they say"Democrat" Party instead of the actual "Democratic" Party. Or the way they watered down "Black Lives Matter" into "All Lives Matter."  It's a deliberate attempt to twist a powerful idea into something they can use to play "gotcha" with liberals.

Monica Hesse wrote an excellent article about it in the [u]Washington Post[/u], if you are genuinely interested. She writes:

[i]"Believe all women,” on the other hand, is rigid, sweeping, and leaves little room for nuance. It would imply that every single woman, everywhere, has always told the truth, on every occasion, about everything....Believe all women” isn’t a good slogan, but it’s a great straw man. It’s a punched-up setup line that enables pundits to play-act as Columbo, swanning around in a raincoat, rubbing his head and delivering a case-closing zinger: “Just one more thing — I thought you believed ALL women!”[/i]

I don't think you really wanted an answer, though, did you?

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