Feminists

My comments had nothing to do with DU. I just had been paying more attention lately, and caught the unfortunate melt down thread and thought maybe I should do more but having been burned before I was just introducing myself and my background just a bit.

As far as I can remember I participated very early in DU1 but then had to scale back my battles and I chose verified voting and read posts from this group. On DU2 I just kept up and recommended some but did not jump in any more.

It gets so complicated sometimes. I was in the military for a short time in 1970 and the career women were fighting for fair pay and status and to do that they had to have access to promotions and units that were off limits to them. I understood that but I had come in as an axillary person because I was a pacifist and thought we should not be doing any wars of aggression but I also knew that I did not have the right to tell others what to believe in and if women did not become part of the military instead of auxiliary to the military they would literally be second class citizens and told what they could not do not only in the military but in corporations, schools, health care and government. (won't go into it but what was going on with the two tired system was brutal, ugly, and unfair). A good many of the senior brass saw WACS as "comfort women", something that was not only untrue but made it unsafe to be there.

So even though I was a pacifist I supported what the career women were trying to do even if they thought they should be in combat. Complicated.

The folks I am referring to negatively were more like "Fatal Attraction", She-Devil (or "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" than "Blossoms in the Dust" or "First Wives Club". Although revenge fantasies make a good movie they in real life they usually destroy both parties and turn off people you want on your side. I still am not coming up with any real name because I would rather forget those folks but remember what the result was when they got in charge.