History of Feminism

reproductive rights and insist the more important issue is the economic standing of men.

I certainly don't have a problem with personal moral opposition to abortion. That is my own position, if you must know. I have a very big problem with politicians who fail to address that it is in fact a woman's right to chose whether or not she has a need for an abortion or to exercise judgment that it is not right for them, for whatever reason, moral or otherwise.

If Clinton could stand up to GOP Senators with power to refuse to confirm her for SOS and emphasize her unyielding commitment to reproductive rights, Sanders could stand up to fire fighters. The problem is precisely what he said in the quotes provided in the article. "The more important issue is. . .. " something else.

This entire internet meme about bankers and the 1 percent is promoted by some of that 1 percent and a good number of those in the 10-20 percent. The fact is, many of the people engaged in that discourse earn far more than the median income and insist funding foodstamps is an adequate response to poverty. I do not allow them or the GOP to define how I see politics. If you insist on that simplistic view of capitalism, that is your business. But don't for a second think someone educated in Marxist theory and Marxist history buys that bougie crap for a second. That crowd isn't in my class and they do not now, nor ever, care about my class concerns. That point has been communicated to me many times over the my membership here. I was told my experience growing up in poverty and being preyed on by Johns as a child was imaginary. Those people have time and time insisted that their right to consume any and everything they want trumps the rights of women to be free from exploitation and enslavement. Now you want to come in here and parrot their empty rhetoric about banksters. Not going to work. I do no care who you or anyone else votes for, but I will not have you lecturing me because I fail to set aside my concerns about equality, women's rights, and social justice to promote the class interests of the white upper-middle class.

And I suspect you don't actually know what the upper 20 percent is. That is anyone with a combined household income of $100k. There are people here who thinks that makes them poor. That shows how completely detached their entire worldview is from the reality of most Americans. And some of those upper-middle class folks make a point of regularly insulting people who have far less that them and who have suffered discrimination their entire lives. That combined with responses to this and BigTree's thread, calling HIM a racist for having the nerve to care about the interests of African Americans like himself, shows how little they care about anyone but themselves.\
Why should I consider any of them any better than bankers, when they show absolutely no concern for anyone else, and actively work to silence those who speak about their own experiences and concerns? No, they are not on my side, and I am not on theirs.