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SleeplessinSoCal

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31. finding this to be true more and more.

Reply to Sophiegirl (Original post)

Wed Nov 2, 2016, 06:30 PM

Nov 2016

My husband is suffering from dementia and inspections and all business is going through me. On top of all the stress is this new brazen misogyny that was already in existence before Trump.

I always imagined that being a baby boomer would provide lots of allies to fight with once I reached my 60's. But divisiveness is fostered and exploited. No way can we become socially responsible as a society if we are constantly attacking one another.

We have got to wake up to this.

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So, I had to get my car inspected today [View all] Sophiegirl Nov 2016 OP

Wait you are mad because he didn't touch you? Egnever Nov 2016 #1

I think she was pointing out a difference between friendliness vs terseness eleny Nov 2016 #3

Ok Egnever Nov 2016 #17

I can see how that happened eleny Nov 2016 #23

personally, i don't want that kind of treatment; equal rights doesn't mean women "get" to be men; TheFrenchRazor Nov 2016 #36

Wait, are you slow because that's the only possibility you can infer? LanternWaste Nov 2016 #4

Is your "slow" comment.. Sophiegirl Nov 2016 #10

He's calling out the repliers response, not you. Lancero Nov 2016 #13

Ahh. Sophiegirl Nov 2016 #15

Haha no it was inferring I am stupid Egnever Nov 2016 #19

I can assure you, I have never been slapped on the back by the mechanic inspecting my car ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2016 #2

I once got charged $5 Sophiegirl Nov 2016 #11

I used to wrench for a living. You-u-u wouldn't want my hands Anywhere on you. Eleanors38 Nov 2016 #26

Maybe they knew each other? mahina Nov 2016 #5

Wow, unless there was something else not written, you are LOOKING for reasons to complain. karynnj Nov 2016 #7

I'm cautious about being "too friendly" toward women sometimes because... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2016 #8

Maybe they knew each other. linuxman Nov 2016 #27

Possibly Sophiegirl Nov 2016 #28

Sexism sucks IronLionZion Nov 2016 #29

This is some kind of a joke isn't it. Leontius Nov 2016 #30

finding this to be true more and more. SleeplessinSoCal Nov 2016 #31

Perhaps they knew each other. Kind of prejudicial to assume. n/t X_Digger Nov 2016 #34

it's a club, and you ain't in it, little lady... nt TheFrenchRazor Nov 2016 #35

Post removed Post removed Nov 2016 #37

How friendly were you toward him? WillowTree Nov 2016 #38

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