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In reply to the discussion: Sincere question for the women of DU [View all]LAS14
(13,769 posts)32. Sexism certainly isn't as alive and well as it was 60 years ago. I've watched...
... steady improvement. The #MeToo movement is the latest. It's not that it's worse. It's that the light is shining on it.
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I've sensed the uptick in misogynistic talk via right wing paid mouthpieces.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2023
#1
And they won't even acknowledge their backwards thinking is Taliban-like.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jan 2023
#134
What really hurts is that almost half of the women who are RW-buy into the misogyny.
Samrob
Jan 2023
#86
And lecturing women to stay home, not work, while she was always working and never home.
betsuni
Jan 2023
#75
To be fair, that was actually marabel morgan, another reichwing shill. There was
niyad
Jan 2023
#104
Just another way for ignorant people to say she was "too intelligent". Some men are clearly
allegorical oracle
Jan 2023
#110
I believe 60 -70% of the country values or at least respects women as citizens with equal rights.
haele
Jan 2023
#17
Go back even further - look how Hillary Clinton was treated as a candidate for President in 2016
FakeNoose
Jan 2023
#28
I think on balance human lives (& yes women are treated worse than men) are treated poorly in the US
Celerity
Jan 2023
#29
When have women ever passed a single law to control a man's right to make decisions for
onecaliberal
Jan 2023
#41
We don't deserve respect because some other woman may have been disrespectful of our gender?
herding cats
Jan 2023
#92
Hardly. We might not even be the most highly-valued form of domestic livestock. n/t
TygrBright
Jan 2023
#66
We have become another target in the wave of hate that is sweeping our country.
h2ebits
Jan 2023
#71
No, women's lives aren't valued. Never have been, really. We made some progress
Scrivener7
Jan 2023
#78
The Pelosies may be laying low..... trying to reduce their exposure to nuts now that
applegrove
Jan 2023
#94
they focus on trans-athletes and gender/bathroom issues saying they are protecting women
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Jan 2023
#100
MAGAs think women are only good for making babies and accepting their sperm, otherwise valueless.
lark
Jan 2023
#101
Nope. Not even a little. Look how popular media talks about female celebrities.
Oneironaut
Jan 2023
#108
It seems the consensus here is that there is definitely misogyny in this country
Wednesdays
Jan 2023
#114
Yes - In SOME Places, Among Some People. OTOH: NO In Too Many Places & w Too Many People!
electric_blue68
Jan 2023
#135