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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny should not be tolerated on DU [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)"Collective power" is in and of itself, a straw man.
Yes, if you were to drop several thousand gallons onto a fire, it would be more effective than a drop here, a drop there. However, before you can put any fires out, you have to be able to gather and channel that water. The men in power are very good at making sure women never unite to be able to use that collective power. Part of that stregy is to use the Palins and Bachmanns you mentioned, to be able to run woman against eahc other. Another way is to ensure that women have to work hard for that 70cents on the dollar (funny how you did not address that) that they cannot get involved in politics, because they know their asshole boos will not let them off work to vote, nor support the early voting hours that, funny thing, had women voting before those males took it away. Let's also take the media which focused more on demonzing women, be they martha Stewart, Monica Lewinksy, or any woman that dares use her power, while the Bill Clintons and Ken Lays get a Pass, and even get admired. The underprivilged in America would have collective power, but the power struicture is good about making sure they cannot collect to use that power. One of their most effective tools to p[revent that collection is people like the MRA who whine and go "WAH, women have too much powah!" or "wah, if only da wimmin listned to us and let me be a real men, we could be Progressives." Yeah, that last one sounded awful, and it sounds even dumber form people who claim to be progressive, yet spend a lot fo time harassing women and whining about how men have been hurt by dose eveil feminists.
If you really want to avoid gliding past the issue, ask yourself, when you go ahead and start attacking femisists, who beneifts, hint, it is not the Democrats.