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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 03:27 PM
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I really wish some of you would support me in GDP
Since when has being against sexism made one the enemy on here?
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cyberswede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 04:03 PM
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1. Link?
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 04:11 PM
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2. Not to call anyone out or anything
Edited on Fri Oct-24-08 04:27 PM by Book Lover
but I was called a freeper in the lounge because I wasn't all that impressed with a man crowing about his cooking skills.

I'll dive into GD P and see how I can help

on edit: holy handbasket, what a thread!
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:20 PM
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3. DU's dirty secret is that sexism is alive and well among 'progressives'. nt
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 10:29 PM
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4. I'm not sure it's that much of a secret
About 10 minutes in GD or the Lounge makes it obvious.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:18 AM
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5. If you're a progressive, and haven't been to DU it's a secret!
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 09:36 PM
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13. It's not a secret.
Cannonfire has documented it extensively. This vile sexism has fueled a lot of the PUMA movement.
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 02:54 AM
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14. Except that the PUMA movement is essentially bullshit.
Privileged white women, Democrat or Republican, who had little to nothing to lose personally if John McCain got elected. I really think that if you, or your child, were going to be sacrificed to McCain's "Hundred Years in Iraq", you'd be singing a different tune.

Why you haven't been banned from this board yet is beyond me. And I say this as a lifelong, strident, committed feminist.
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 12:41 AM
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6. Since the fricking beginning of DU
A lot of liberal 'doodz' don't want to give up their male privilege.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 09:34 PM
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11. Exactly.
They didn't get what their dads got (surrogate mommies in the forms of wives, protection from being upstaged by women, stable jobs and undisputed status) and boy are they PISSED.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-08 12:38 PM
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7. Since, Well ... You Know
I'm not sure we're allowed to say anymore.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 09:35 PM
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12. Nothing. But we can wear pretty dresses and smile
and wave to the crowds!
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-08 07:49 PM
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8. I know we have had our disagreements in the past
Edited on Mon Oct-27-08 07:50 PM by lwfern
I forget about what, absentmindedness is good for that, and I'm not even 100% I'm right on that, but if there's something sexist in GDP and you want to message me a link, most evenings I'd be able to go in and have your back on it.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-08 08:15 PM
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9. you've got some sharp elbows, eh?
water under the bridge?

:grouphug:
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 09:31 PM
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10. Since the primaries
Welcome to Mad Men America. We've all just learned that sexism pays. Don't look for it to abate any time soon.
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sray2007 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-08 09:09 AM
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15. I wish Hillary would be the president, but no possible in the next four years...
I wish Hillary would be the president, but no possible in the next four years...
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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 03:22 PM
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16. I've felt the same way myself...Alone fighting the "doodz"...I'm new here, but
Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 03:23 PM by whathehell
I've seen enough posts like those in this thread to ask this question:

Have any of the DU feminists (I know that not all of the DU women are feminist) tried something like a "United Front", if you will?

..As for coming to your aid, I certainly will -- just pm me.
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 07:39 PM
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17. I puzzled over this

Myself, I haven't paid much attention to GD for a couple of years, since this place went to the dogs. Used to be you could learn something from somebody else, and somebody else would appreciate the opportunity to learn something from you. These days I'm pretty sure nobody ever reads anything past the OP in a thread before spewing a great big glorious opinion into it.

Anyhow. I think this says much of what I'd say:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=341&topic_id=10407&mesg_id=10443

I have no hesitation in supporting someone whose statements I agree with, regardless of who s/he is and what else s/he might say about other things. Some evidence:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x778538

But really, I do find the opening post here a bit rich.
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