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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"They don't care about us enough to hate us. We are simply a form of livestock."
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spanone
(135,900 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)They DO NOT CARE if we know anymore - it's a naked power grab.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I used to say we women arent human beings to them.
This is accuratewe are livestock to them.
Lord how I hate repukes.
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)Liberals are something to deal with - oppose - fight.
Women are to be fucked. And any woman who is not to be fucked can be ignored.
Totally different.
betsuni
(25,686 posts)Tickle us in the right place and we should roll over and spread our legs.
calimary
(81,527 posts)We evidently have no other value beyond that.
yellowdogintexas
(22,280 posts)Women as chattel; baby factories; spoils of war; men as servant masters;
calimary
(81,527 posts)When I was pregnant, I read a lot about that state of being. And I found something REALLY galling!
Used to be, and NOT so long ago, that women were denied pain relief during labor. Why? Because it was simply "our place" to endure the pain of childbirth and that's how it had to be. It was considered a consequence of "the sins of Eve." That WE ALL were expected to pay for!
Pain relief and epidurals and all that? Only a relatively recent 20th-century development.
debsy
(530 posts)...the vast majority of women on the planet do not have access to anything remotely resembling "Western" (aka "developed nations" ) healthcare.
the vast majority of people on the planet...
calimary
(81,527 posts)with the female attorney hurried in from Arizona to do the questioning for the boys club on the GOP side of the panel:
Woman as fig leaf.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Giant farm raised chicken locked together in a cage so we (men and women) can;t even turn around.
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi_103630
THANK YOU, Oppaloopa! Your post made me look that one up. I'd been wondering about that quote myself - couldn't quite remember who said it.
DEFINITELY a keeper!
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)And, given their attitudes towards animals, "livestock" is treated worse than other forms of property.
-- Mal
debsy
(530 posts)A few examples:
Depictions of Jesus and God as White men
Manifest Destiny
Slave trade (granted, slavery is not a strictly white phenomenon but white men sure picked it up and ran with it)
Sex trafficking (probably could be combined with slave trade).
Women and non-white males are simply considered livestock.
We were watching Scarface last night and I couldn't help thinking about how Elvira was simply a piece of meat being passed around between "men". The fact of the matter is many people in power these are sociopaths and malignant narcissists and should be locked up in an insane asylum.
Orin Hatch needs to STFU.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)To most men, we are just on this earth to provide men with food and sex. They don't want us to have brains, ambitions and abilities. we are here solely to provide for them (men). They want us to take care of their every need while they do just exactly as they please and keep our mouths shut!!!
proglib217
(88 posts)As a man, I take umbrage to being lumped in with "most" members of my gender.
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)And this form of misogyny is over the top with the Mormon men on the JC.
As an adult white male with a wife and daughter, I'm disgusted by this behavior.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)Lets be clear-I was dis-inherited from a rich southern family when I was 13 along with my siblings. I wish for justice but will settle to outlive my Stepmother & urinate on her grave.
I started reading the family history & there came the story of a large property they owned & how proud they had paid (I believe) $3,000.00 for " A fine breading Negro". That was a huge amount of money back then & he obviously bought him for making more slaves.
The document went on to bemoan the loss of the property when all the slaves refused to work for free those ungrateful so & so's....
Don't miss them and I felt like burning the document but saved myself from it. I hate those genealogy plugs-I know my family history & am ashamed of it.