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eShirl

(18,687 posts) Sat Jul 27, 2024, 08:41 AM Jul 27

This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/misogyny-emergency-huge-outpouring-kamala-harris-us-electionction

But eight years on, we haven’t even begun to understand that lesson. We didn’t listen to Hillary. We haven’t yet realised that misogyny is one of the most dangerous weapons on Earth. The best friend of authoritarians and oligarchs. The handmaiden of tyrants.

Worst of all, we haven’t yet realised that misogyny represents the most urgent and pressing threat to global security.

Because it’s misogyny – networked misogyny across multiple global platforms that will earn their tech bro owners billions upon billions of dollars – that is going to decide the 2024 election.

And it’s misogyny that’s going to dictate the future of Nato, the outcome of the war in Ukraine, whether we have peace in Europe or more war. And because this is going to be a firehose that will be directed at a single woman – Kamala Harris – it will be misogyny multiplied: misogyny plus racism, the most toxic combination of all.

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This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election (Original Post) eShirl Jul 27 OP

Yes very frightening bucolic_frolic Jul 27 #1

And that's why... 2naSalit Jul 27 #2

Amen, sister! Silver Gaia Jul 27 #5

It's actually religious fundamentalism (which includes misogyny) that is the fundamental (no pun intended) danger. KJohnson Jul 27 #3

A wonderful article, but Cadwalladr seems to leave out one ... dchill Jul 27 #4

The right already has a big part of their attacks on the K-Bomb (Harris) and Tucker Carlson already ... Botany Jul 27 #6

we have never had a female president, and WE ARE OVER HALF THE POPULATION Skittles Jul 29 #7

bucolic_frolic

(45,767 posts)

1. Yes very frightening

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 08:55 AM

Jul 27

one does wonder if our momentum will build, or if we have much room to the upside from here.

My guess is we will squeak out a win in this election partly due to the deeply flawed opposition, with modest gains in Congress. So not much progress.

What I'm not seeing us doing right now is solidifying the political middle. Something we failed to do in 2016 as well.

2naSalit

(90,749 posts)

2. And that's why...

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 10:10 AM

Jul 27

A. We're going to win this time.

B. Women are getting elected in more countries and finding their way to important positions, misogyny is on the decline and it started recently.

C. Pissing off all the females in the land is not a wise plan and will fail spectacularly, just you watch. We are about to end this abusive relationship once and for all.

The Great Comeuppance is upon us, it is now that we can flip the script, just like Joe Biden did. Women of the world are not taking any of this lightly and we will prevail after millennia of male domination. We have the tools and know how to use them to defeat our foes. This time it's about our very survival, we'd best kill the beast before it kills us.

Silver Gaia

(4,691 posts)

5. Amen, sister!

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:35 AM

Jul 27

It's time to slay this beast!

KJohnson

(32 posts)

3. It's actually religious fundamentalism (which includes misogyny) that is the fundamental (no pun intended) danger.

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:28 AM

Jul 27

dchill

(39,676 posts)

4. A wonderful article, but Cadwalladr seems to leave out one ...

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:34 AM

Jul 27

... crucial element. In the US, there's another platform that spreads the extrememly misogynistic disinformation they love to employ - Evangelical Christianity. This already suspect endeavor has glued themselves to the MAGA Mafia. They're the original purveyors of the misogyny that Carole Cadwalladr warns us is coming.

Botany

(71,768 posts)

6. The right already has a big part of their attacks on the K-Bomb (Harris) and Tucker Carlson already ...

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2024, 11:47 AM

Jul 27

…. has been pushing them and they are:

She really hasn’t done anything but she just f***ed her way to the top.

She isn’t that smart. Btw her freshman year of college was in Montreal which
means she had to speak and write French for college level course work @ 18
from Oakland, California.

She just “an affirmative action” hire.

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Expect Russia to be a big player in the attacks on the Vice President

Skittles

(156,946 posts)

7. we have never had a female president, and WE ARE OVER HALF THE POPULATION

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2024, 10:26 PM

Jul 29

that is just INSANE proof of the misogyny in America

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