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leticiaDude, just /stop/.
Don't you dare fucking start slutshaming Bristol Palin, and you claim to be a liberal. You wonder why feminists are still angry? Because alleged liberals, our supposed allies, are making snarky comments about how she 'gets around' and calling her mother a bimbo.
Her mother is a bad policy maker. Her mother is granting her daughter support while withholding support from the less fortunate daughters of less rich mothers. These are valid points.
But neither one deserves slut shaming, because slut shaming itself is a tool of the oppression.
McCain isn't planning to pull Hillary voters because we can't tell one vagina from another; he's planning to make us inreasingly disaffected with the only party that pretends to care about our issues so we end up not voting at all.
I told a friend the other day, regarding Obama's little slips of the sexist tongue, "I'll take 'sweetie' over 'cunt' any day." But while Obama isn't saying it, the rest of the left is producing plenty of 'cunt' language and has been all along.
No other primary candidate in existance has been so reviled. No other candidate in existance has faced the same catch-22 - required to get up and support the winner (as Hillary did and every other candidate in history has) but at the same time, for that very show of support, accused of showstealing. Get the hell over your balls, little boys. Why are we still wasting so much party unity screaming about the girl who dared to play in the boys' clubhouse?
It's the same thing that has leftist bloggers thinking it's okay to call random.female on the right a trannie, or make snide comments to an imaginary adam's apple. Remember, girls, disagreeing with men makes you not a real girl. And transexuals are only okay as long as they're on YOUR side.
Of course I'm planning to vote for Obama. So are most of us. We're not stupid. But we still insist that you pay us the respect of understanding that when you slutshame one woman, even if she's committed the grevious sin of disagreeing with your politics, or just being the daughter of someone who disagrees with your politics, you slutshame all women.
Sexism doesn't know party lines.
Don't you dare fucking start slutshaming Bristol Palin, and you claim to be a liberal. You wonder why feminists are still angry? Because alleged liberals, our supposed allies, are making snarky comments about how she 'gets around' and calling her mother a bimbo.
Her mother is a bad policy maker. Her mother is granting her daughter support while withholding support from the less fortunate daughters of less rich mothers. These are valid points.
But neither one deserves slut shaming, because slut shaming itself is a tool of the oppression.
McCain isn't planning to pull Hillary voters because we can't tell one vagina from another; he's planning to make us inreasingly disaffected with the only party that pretends to care about our issues so we end up not voting at all.
I told a friend the other day, regarding Obama's little slips of the sexist tongue, "I'll take 'sweetie' over 'cunt' any day." But while Obama isn't saying it, the rest of the left is producing plenty of 'cunt' language and has been all along.
No other primary candidate in existance has been so reviled. No other candidate in existance has faced the same catch-22 - required to get up and support the winner (as Hillary did and every other candidate in history has) but at the same time, for that very show of support, accused of showstealing. Get the hell over your balls, little boys. Why are we still wasting so much party unity screaming about the girl who dared to play in the boys' clubhouse?
It's the same thing that has leftist bloggers thinking it's okay to call random.female on the right a trannie, or make snide comments to an imaginary adam's apple. Remember, girls, disagreeing with men makes you not a real girl. And transexuals are only okay as long as they're on YOUR side.
Of course I'm planning to vote for Obama. So are most of us. We're not stupid. But we still insist that you pay us the respect of understanding that when you slutshame one woman, even if she's committed the grevious sin of disagreeing with your politics, or just being the daughter of someone who disagrees with your politics, you slutshame all women.
Sexism doesn't know party lines.
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Date: 2008-09-04 03:28 pm (UTC)