2016 Postmortem

LAS14

(15,537 posts) Thu Oct 13, 2016, 10:36 AM Oct 2016

Did the media flap following revelations of ...

... racial discrimination that cost people jobs and housing anywhere approach this sex flap? I agree that Trump's behavior has been truly reprehensible, probably criminal. But the indignity these women suffered doesn't compare, in my mind, with losing one's job or home because of one's race. I think we live in a topsy turvy world. Sex has to be involved to create the kind of reaction that will change things.

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Did the media flap following revelations of ... (Original Post) LAS14 Oct 2016 OP

"the indignity these women suffered doesn't compare". I am sure they would disagree. nt LexVegas Oct 2016 #1

"comparisons" are not helpful jberryhill Oct 2016 #2

LexVegas

(6,962 posts)

1. "the indignity these women suffered doesn't compare". I am sure they would disagree. nt

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Thu Oct 13, 2016, 10:37 AM

Oct 2016

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. "comparisons" are not helpful

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Thu Oct 13, 2016, 10:39 AM

Oct 2016

One may point out that women are a majority of the electorate, and are certainly more numerous, for example.

Whether one considers an assault on their personhood and actual body to be "worse" than an economic loss, is an imponderable.

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