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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Sex article is like ‘50 Shades of Grey’ [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)56. There are three versions
Last edited Sun May 31, 2015, 05:31 PM - Edit history (1)
the kindle version, is the last one and the one I got. So it's gotten some fixes. It is not the grammar, I hate cookie cutter, cardboard characters and these ones were even thinner. I think paper thin. The "story arc" was really bland and the over use of certain phrases every two to three paragraphs drove me literally up a wall.
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i thought he was 31, to her 16, 17? just stating facts. i have not made any comment at all
seabeyond
May 2015
#2
"The old essay was criticizing rape culture attitudes like those on parade in 50 Shades."
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#108
Some newspaper guy reports, sanders people starts ops... No one gives a shit. Who are 'they'
seabeyond
May 2015
#140
Well apparently your penis interferes with your reading comprehension.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#150
i know. time as in we age, or time gone by? cause i use to know every detail about everything.
seabeyond
May 2015
#77
lol. you made me laugh. now. outta of this thread. didnt like the first four OPs on this. nt
seabeyond
May 2015
#80
no. it does not. please stop going thru this thread, insisting it is a feminist piece.
seabeyond
May 2015
#94
I know you can't cause you are seeing the piece as a man not a feminist... As you compare it to fems
seabeyond
May 2015
#137
Of course I did a week ago the first of now 6 ops on this. All brought to you by pro sanders
seabeyond
May 2015
#149
Hey, there you go. Put it on his website to draw women. Like I say, brilliant
seabeyond
May 2015
#151
could you imagine what would happen with obama? that would turn ugly, fast. nt
seabeyond
May 2015
#11
yup. and the expected silence, because it is.... this is what pisses me off. different expectations
seabeyond
May 2015
#14
Well, given that Bernie's essay was a critique of rape culture, I'd be pleased if
Luminous Animal
May 2015
#26
bullshit. i did not like reading, how sanders was playing with this in his mind. regardless.
seabeyond
May 2015
#39
It was not a rape fantasy article. It was a critique of how women are portrayed in men's magazines.
Luminous Animal
May 2015
#24
Does that go for Bill Clinton in 1992 and Hillary in 2016, too, or only for Bernie?
merrily
May 2015
#91
OMG, Bernie did not say the media was unfair to bring this up. It's the Clintons who do that stuff.
merrily
May 2015
#118
You're saying BERNIE should have expected it to come up because of what DUers post?*
merrily
May 2015
#123
Did you read the essay? Because it was clearly a critique of how women were depicted in men's
Luminous Animal
May 2015
#30
I guess this questions Bernie is right for women. Shot a hole in his raft when out at sea.
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#10
If you ask me, people making a big deal out of this 40+ year old article are making...
MohRokTah
May 2015
#15
Bullshit. The essay was criticizing rape culture attitudes like those on parade in 50 Shades
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#18
If you had read the article, you would know that it was a critique of rape culture.
Luminous Animal
May 2015
#33
The problem with Bernie's article is that most people can't get beyond the first few lines..
DCBob
May 2015
#34
Over in a couple of days, just like post #1 who hasn't gotten over Hillary in the Goldwater days.
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#40
so lets start a fuckin OP in sanders name about mens fantasy to rape women. cause, he is after all
seabeyond
May 2015
#48
there you go, get in the gutter to null and void an already dead subject for sanders.
seabeyond
May 2015
#49
Easy response to anyone who asks: you obviously didn't read it - that's all he has to say. If they
Exilednight
May 2015
#96
nobody on du is falling this, nobody is not voting sander because of, nobody said sanders is racist
seabeyond
May 2015
#73
dont know dont care about title or what you posted after this. i am playing in his crowds....
seabeyond
May 2015
#79
He already admitted he smoked pot. Hell, even Ted fucking Cruz smoked pot at some point.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#138
MJ says his marriage broke up in the late 60s and the article seems to reflect that.
ucrdem
May 2015
#95
Sure they have, but it doesn't say what they want it to so they're making shit up.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#103
So are you trying to help catapult the notion that this is this Bernie's "Pen-Gazi"?
corkhead
May 2015
#97
It was not a rape fantasy article, for those who want to see where this lie is coming from:
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#104
Says the person who defended the article associating Sanders with slavery and racist cops.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#106
Better the text than the rumor and I've already stated that it's well-intentioned.
ucrdem
May 2015
#111
Wasn't that 1971, anyway? Twenty years before he first went to Congress where he earned a 100%
merrily
May 2015
#125
No complaints that I know of from a single woman who worked with or for him either, even
merrily
May 2015
#127
