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In reply to the discussion: Are there women here who are not offended by the SI cover or Kate Upton's spread? [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)For the most part I feel like I am posting in the wind here on DU - probably because I am 6-9 time zones away from the continental US. Your evening is my night.
It also amazes me how many refuse to actually read what we post. We don't disparage the models, we don't say men shouldn't be attracted to women (and vice versa), we don't say men should never look at women, we don't say women should wear a burka, we don't say sexuality is bad. We are saying that these covers don't happen in a vacuum, that they and their ubiquitous ilk have an effect on most women and men, that posting these kinds of pictures on DU made many women uncomfortable, and would they please listen to us when we explain the how and why of it. But is seems that they deliberately will not hear, and that we just want to be mean when we try to talk about it.
It is clear they want to drive certain posters off the board, and perhaps they will succeed. But that tells me more about why the Democrats seem unable to succeed in the polls and in Congress that they would like to admit. There are plenty of posters who bemoan the lack of spine in the Democratic party who have no problems showing their spinelessness on DU - and who are ample counterparts to the Republican "sheep" they decry for working against their own good.