Feminists

Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:16 PM Feb 2020

And men like this...

Laurie Penny - Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?
https://thebaffler.com/latest/is-patriarchy-too-big-to-fail-penny]

It is true you know. They are gaslighting the whole of our nations. But they are really paying particular attention to women and POC. They want to go back to a time when we were forced to comply, through violence and law, as they stole our agency. The lens that we force them to look through must be very uncomfortable in those rare moments of truth when they acknowledge what and who they are.

They are not decent and they are not innocent and we cannot allow them to steal our agency in 2020 the way they tried (and succeeded too often) for first and second wave.

They can fuck right off. Biff. Baff. Uppercut.

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And men like this... (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2020 OP

Very well said, my dear Soph! Yes, they can fuck right off. FFS. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2020 #1

They want to exhaust us with their outrageous nonsense Soph0571 Feb 2020 #4

Something we should be bringing to the fore... 2naSalit Feb 2020 #2

They are relying on us to figure out the battle is not worth it... they have learnt nothing...fools Soph0571 Feb 2020 #5

Great post, Soph. brer cat Feb 2020 #3

Thanks! Soph0571 Feb 2020 #6

They were fine with representative government as long as demographics favored them. CrispyQ Feb 2020 #7

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,069 posts)

1. Very well said, my dear Soph! Yes, they can fuck right off. FFS. n/t

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:26 PM

Feb 2020

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)

4. They want to exhaust us with their outrageous nonsense

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:19 PM

Feb 2020

Wankers they are!!!!

2naSalit

(92,665 posts)

2. Something we should be bringing to the fore...

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:29 PM

Feb 2020

as if we haven't been all along.

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)

5. They are relying on us to figure out the battle is not worth it... they have learnt nothing...fools

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:20 PM

Feb 2020

brer cat

(26,253 posts)

3. Great post, Soph.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:36 PM

Feb 2020

They want control, and we see that clearly in the taking of our reproductive rights.

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)

6. Thanks!

Reply to brer cat (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:23 PM

Feb 2020

And yes. Reproductive first, contraception next, after that it will be a free for all if they get their way...

This is not hyperbole...

CrispyQ

(38,238 posts)

7. They were fine with representative government as long as demographics favored them.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:38 PM

Feb 2020

But when demographics changed and the uppity women, people of color, and gays had the numbers to demand equality and equity in the system then all bets were off. Being the ones in power to start with, it's been easy for them to sabotage the system with things like gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and crazy rulings like money equals speech.

It's shameful that these mostly rich white men who have brought us to the brink of ecological collapse still think they deserve to be in charge and have convinced untold numbers of the same.

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