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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Your sense of reality is a little...off. 
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Where is she wrong?[/quote]

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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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.)[/quote]

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

Seems to be exactly that to me. [/quote]

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

LOL. I certainly do NOT control the thoughts of anyone but myself.  :lol:

PP shared her thoughts. And I’m simply observing that PP is disconnected from reality. She will believe whatever craziness she wants to believe. 
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I suspect there many women who would observe that you are the one profoundly disconnected with reality. It’s interesting that you position yourself as arbitrator of all reality; that itself seems wholly delusional. [/quote]

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