I think you’re grossly exaggerating how far the West has come. Also its important to remember that treatment of women in Western countries has made this short, and not uncontested progress, within living memory.
The last time an absurd amount of sexual assaults were reported on a given night in the West would be St.…
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Agree. I started off just thinking that maybe his big plans weren’t all that realistic, but if he accomplished even some of it, it would be good. But as time goes on I find I am just getting to dislike him more and more. A good part of that is, as you acknowledge, the white male privilege, and I hate to admit it but…
Good luck getting anyone here to acknowledge that there’s a difference between the Maghreb and the Middle East.
the people that were arrested for these crimes were overwhelmigly economic migrants from Algeria and Morocco specifically , I don’t know of any source indicating men mostly from the middle east .
Oh, I remember it vividly- it’s one of the reasons I don’t believe for a second that these same guys wouldn’t be shitting on her from a height if she were the other candidate in this and not Hillary. She’s their token female friend, which is convenient, since she’s not running, so they can swear up and down that…
Warren actually was on the receiving end of the same petty shit when she ran for her Massachusetts senate seat. Google old articles on her senate run and you’ll find a lot about how she’s “inauthentic,” “unlikable,” the comment section calling her a liar, oh and despite her bonafide progressive record men (WHITE men,…
So uncomfortable facts like no one cared that this was happening to women and no one was being punished until brown men started doing it too? That foreigners attacking women might be the thing that actually gets the law changed to protect women from something they’ve been putting up with from white men with no legal…
I can only agree completely with everything you’ve said here. This is a really good encapsulation of what ended up moving me to vote for Clinton. Do I think Sanders is deliberately sexist or racist? No, I don’t. Do I think he would try to make things worse for women or POC? No, I don’t. But I do think that a lot of…
The way I see Sanders is he focuses everything around economic inequality, which is a huge issue facing our country and SHOULD be discussed more. But when you’re a hammer, everything is a nail, and there are some things that concern me as a lady voter that Sanders addresses only through the lens of economics…
Isn’t that exactly the point? You said that these men come from countries where they were raised to see women as objects. That’s, as you just pointed out, everywhere in the world. Where they came from is not irrelevant, but it’d be silly to try to condemn these countries for not supporting women’s rights when, in a…
Downplaying it is not “trying to not seem racist”, it’s not being racist. Syria is not a land of no rights for women — they have a woman vice president, had women’s suffrage for over 20 years longer than freaking Switzerland, 2.5 months of 100% paid maternity leave, mandatory daycares in workplaces, and has a higher…
Would you care to substantiate this statement, please:
I recently had some commenter on Gawker mansplain to me that Bernie is MUCH better on abortion than Hillary... because ONE TIME he answered a debate question and said abortion was between a woman and her doctor while Hillary got all “bogged down” talking about Planned Parenthood and access and who even needs to talk…
I actually thought her discussion of weed was pretty brilliant. There are, in fact, pretty intense repercussions to taking a Schedule 1 drug from banned to legalized at the federal level in one fell swoop. Dropping it down to a much lower schedule, supporting states as they legalize individually, and then keeping a…
Also: “If Bernie joins Clinton’s campaign as vice president, then he’ll just be a sellout and I’ll never vote for him.”
By all accounts, in private or in small settings she can be the total opposite of how she’s portrayed- funny and personable. It’s just that years and years of dealing with sexist takedowns, a media that intensely dislikes her, and 30 years worth of Republican shittiness to her has made her afraid to actual show any of…
Being caught admitting Hillary Clinton can be funny and cool under pressure is just so unhip, apparently.
No worries. For whatever it’s worth, I don’t have an especially intense dislike of Bernie Sanders or anything- I think his heart is generally in the right place, and I was genuinely shocked when I read that article. But I think he’s shown time and again that women and minorities (and the issues that primarily affect…
“Not just because watching Hillary Clinton try to be funny and cool is cringe-worthy” I must have watched a different video! How long did you spend writing this article? I thought she was great. I guess we have evolved from 2008 when we couldn’t stop talking about her looks...