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In reply to the discussion: why are women angry? because we STILL have to protest this s*** [View all]niyad
(113,216 posts)72. great one--thank you for posting it (perhaps you could post it as a separate thread so I can rec it
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Didn't we have a video a while back of a teenage boy lecturing us on the word feminism?
freshwest
Feb 2013
#37
I would ask you to say you are joking, but, sadly, I think you are not. did DU rip this twit apart?
niyad
Feb 2013
#43
great one--thank you for posting it (perhaps you could post it as a separate thread so I can rec it
niyad
Feb 2013
#72
and, it seems, the anti-union thugs of the early 20th century have nothing on the current bunch
niyad
Feb 2013
#31
I disagree a little bit as far as legislation vs. guns -- some seem to think that as long as it
Brickbat
Feb 2013
#44
we cannot trust those cretins for one minute--guns or legislation, they do not have our
niyad
Feb 2013
#48
I was horrified to learn about the Ludlow Massacre recently, I think via a DU post
classof56
Feb 2013
#75
I know what you mean about the backwardness and regression. even ten years later, it was not
niyad
Feb 2013
#78
it isn't just a way to deflect the conversation--it is an attempt to make us appear as if we are
niyad
Feb 2013
#80
your last point is something we have been working on for decades--some very ingenious plans
niyad
Feb 2013
#33
"too bad your experiences have been so negative" but you don't know what you are talking about.
niyad
Feb 2013
#52
It is very important never to give up this struggle, as or opponents would push women...
Nika
Feb 2013
#21
unfortunately, it IS a struggle--and please note that someof these idiots actually have run
niyad
Feb 2013
#56
I'm a man - with a wife I adore, a mom I love, and two sisters I cherish; and I'm ....
11 Bravo
Feb 2013
#22
if you had read the OP, you might have had some answers. some of the explanations were right
niyad
Feb 2013
#82
What "they" call traditional values is nothing more than their pathological fear of change.
gtar100
Feb 2013
#24
why am I so angry? for one thing, because there are still people around who are so clueless,
niyad
Feb 2013
#30
I have been tired for decades, but will not give up--sometimes I think they are hoping for us
niyad
Feb 2013
#34
believe me a lot of young women took notice last year when politicians were trying to take their
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2013
#59
many of us are tired, and discouraged, and even bewildered. as you asked, where is all this
niyad
Feb 2013
#51
Because we have a good portion of the population that vote in the assholes that
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#58
Yes. And some of them are women themselves--voting against own self interest
Left Coast2020
Feb 2013
#62
people ask me why I carry such a large purse--I smile sweetly and say, 'because it's legal,
niyad
Feb 2013
#73
fortunately, I have never needed to use it that way. I have been told that I walk with a serious
niyad
Feb 2013
#95
do you have a link to that article? I got a lot of flack over the years for choosing to be
niyad
Feb 2013
#83
K&R, I still can't can't believe we have to have to protest this this shit.
smirkymonkey
Feb 2013
#96