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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

What is the Dem misogyny?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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You need to get off social media.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. 
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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.  [/quote]

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