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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:52 AM Dec 2015

Why the Left is (Still) Sexist

http://www.tanqeed.org/2015/12/why-the-left-is-still-sexist/

Like the mind/body dualism, modern thought reproduces the private/public distinction in the unlikeliest of places, even within Marxist discourse. Politics is what men do, because politics is what concerns the public domain. Since women’s bodies do not properly operate in this domain, they need to be brought in. Since women’s concerns are private, they are by default not political, and an awakening to the public and the political is something that needs to take place before they can count as radical. If some women manage to prevail in these political spaces, then, surely, no structural exclusion of women exists? Surely, a majority of women refuse to join because they simply lack the will to politics? Surely, The Woman Question is the correct form to speak of these matters because women are first and foremost gendered beings and only then, if ever, laboring beings, while men are always laboring beings and never gendered?

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Why the Left is (Still) Sexist (Original Post) TalkingDog Dec 2015 OP

America is indeed still sexist/misogynist mgmaggiemg Dec 2015 #1

Sexism won't go away until organized religion does, and that won't go away until valerief Dec 2015 #2

I do not buy it completely daybranch Dec 2015 #3

mgmaggiemg

(869 posts)

1. America is indeed still sexist/misogynist

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:22 PM

Dec 2015

racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic...there are people out there who will not vote for female candidates...so be it but they are getting their first female prez...so they are buying the beer on election night

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. Sexism won't go away until organized religion does, and that won't go away until

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Wed Dec 23, 2015, 07:43 PM

Dec 2015

the oligarchs give up control of mass media. So never.

daybranch

(1,309 posts)

3. I do not buy it completely

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Thu Dec 24, 2015, 05:54 AM

Dec 2015

Women are the strength of the major political parties. They actually comprise most of the people who make the decisions . The sexism that exists in politics if anything is supported by antiquated gender notions by women of a woman's rightful place. Politics by its nature is combative and many women do not wish to be confrontational. It is their choice not those of men. I can agree that we still have a sexist society but disagree that men are the only ones perpetuating the views that re-enforce the sexism. I also see no reason to believe a woman is more or less capable except by her performance individually. I will never base my vote on whether a candidate is a woman or a man or LGBT. I will never see anything as strictly a woman's issue because I know full well what are called women's issues are family issues and humanist issues.
Today we have competition between a women funded by the oligarchy and completely competent of defeating the clown car of republicans by attacking their views and a man for democracy who runs a milder cleaner campaign and is inspiring people not by the gender he has but by the values of authenticity , honesty, and caring he exudes. Please do not let some focus on sexism make you assume a woman at any cost is worth it. Vote for Bernie, he works for all of us, including women. Hillary not so much. Go Bernie!

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