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skip fox

(19,359 posts) Sat Jun 22, 2013, 07:48 AM Jun 2013

Sight a Saturday on the wing. Please come CAPTION Lou Dobbs on women's ascendancy!!!

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Lou ("L., The bottle's in the drawer, upper right. Cheers.&quot

Dobbs is saying: "And if these trends in economic and educational disparity continue to widen, women will be the seat of power and influence the world over. . . . What do you think they'll do if they believe men are being subversive? Or too 'manly?'. . . Hasn't history taught us any lessons? . . . Will we be sent to re-education camps that teach us to be more like the new woman: shrill as a winged demon, sex crazed and mad? . . . And that might be the best alternative from our point of view. . . . I'm just asking. . . ."

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The real story is on Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/06/21/foxs-lou-dobbs-mansplains-the-mancession/194556

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Sight a Saturday on the wing. Please come CAPTION Lou Dobbs on women's ascendancy!!! (Original Post) skip fox Jun 2013 OP

"Was it something I said?" n/t RKP5637 Jun 2013 #1

If you substitute "black people" or "gays" for "women," you'll see how misogynist and insulting Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #2

The CAPTION, of course, was creative, but it accurately channels skip fox Jun 2013 #3

Notice the scarcity of responses to your post? If it had been about a minority or gays, there Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #6

"And if we get out of hand, the women can make us undergo skip fox Jun 2013 #4

"And one blogger even said my use of 'harpies' and 'whores' skip fox Jun 2013 #5

RKP5637

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1. "Was it something I said?" n/t

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jun 2013

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

2. If you substitute "black people" or "gays" for "women," you'll see how misogynist and insulting

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 08:17 AM

Jun 2013

his comments are.

I say substitute because people seem to let insulting, derogatory, misogynistic comments slide as being somehow not important.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

3. The CAPTION, of course, was creative, but it accurately channels

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 08:46 AM

Jun 2013

Dobbs's feelings and inner thoughts, and what you say about the substitution is accurate even when applied to his actual words (in the Media Matters story).

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

6. Notice the scarcity of responses to your post? If it had been about a minority or gays, there

Reply to skip fox (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:11 AM

Jun 2013

would be quite a few posters with enraged responses.

But because it's about women, meh...big deal, right? It's a pattern I've noticed in DU.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

4. "And if we get out of hand, the women can make us undergo

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 11:16 AM

Jun 2013

gene therapy and sexual re-orientation and zap us with nanobots that'll make us want to paint our nails and talk sissy."

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

5. "And one blogger even said my use of 'harpies' and 'whores'

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 01:17 PM

Jun 2013

indicates I was a chauvinist. . . . Geez, I'm married to a woman for Christ's sake!"

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