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Useless in FL

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46. I'm tired too, and beaten down.

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 10:09 PM

Feb 2013

I've spent my whole life defending our rights and everytime I think we're making improvements, advancing our hope, it falls apart. I'm tired of fighting..I'll soon be gone and I don't see a whole lot of women advancing our cause. Where are we? Nowhere. Just as we were in 1963 when I was a highschool graduate or in 1967 when I was a college graduate? Why?? Why do we have to justify and keep fighting back to have equal access to every facit of our existence? Are we just tools to ... I can't even express what? I'm tired of fighting, but then I think of the hate and the total control and I think that we are where we were during the American revolution, except that we are Women, fighting for our rights and our control of our lives and bodies in 2013. Regardless about how you feel we should be, somehow we need to unite to fight back - to the corptocracy and to the 1 percent who seek to control us. Where is all this evil energy coming from? People who want to control and enslave us for their own profit and enjoyment.

I rarely post here for fear of expressing my ignorance and inviting criticism. That is no more. I have a voice, and I have an opinion and I will not be disparaged.

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why are women angry? because we STILL have to protest this s*** [View all] niyad Feb 2013 OP

This, plus less pay for equal work, slut shaming... 2theleft Feb 2013 #1

"if you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention" niyad Feb 2013 #3

Didn't we have a video a while back of a teenage boy lecturing us on the word feminism? freshwest Feb 2013 #37

I would ask you to say you are joking, but, sadly, I think you are not. did DU rip this twit apart? niyad Feb 2013 #43

A little, I was too pissed to look at much. freshwest Feb 2013 #45

Dilbert Gets It (Thanks, Scott Adams) Demeter Feb 2013 #71

great one--thank you for posting it (perhaps you could post it as a separate thread so I can rec it niyad Feb 2013 #72

K&R SunSeeker Feb 2013 #2

K&R me b zola Feb 2013 #4

As a woman, I feel it. I say the same thing as a union member, too. Brickbat Feb 2013 #5

and, it seems, the anti-union thugs of the early 20th century have nothing on the current bunch niyad Feb 2013 #31

I disagree a little bit as far as legislation vs. guns -- some seem to think that as long as it Brickbat Feb 2013 #44

we cannot trust those cretins for one minute--guns or legislation, they do not have our niyad Feb 2013 #48

I was horrified to learn about the Ludlow Massacre recently, I think via a DU post classof56 Feb 2013 #75

I know what you mean about the backwardness and regression. even ten years later, it was not niyad Feb 2013 #78

Same here & as a... SkyDaddy7 Feb 2013 #67

it isn't just a way to deflect the conversation--it is an attempt to make us appear as if we are niyad Feb 2013 #80

It will never end AgingAmerican Feb 2013 #6

"Stupid on Steroids." WOW does that nail it, Aging American! calimary Feb 2013 #25

k&r Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #7

K&R! sheshe2 Feb 2013 #8

AMEN SISTER iandhr Feb 2013 #9

A man once offered this response to that question: spooky3 Feb 2013 #10

+1 freshwest Feb 2013 #54

K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #11

K&R forestpath Feb 2013 #12

I tell people, Ilsa Feb 2013 #13

This: CrispyQ Feb 2013 #14

If we can get religion.... ReRe Feb 2013 #15

your last point is something we have been working on for decades--some very ingenious plans niyad Feb 2013 #33

Married women.... ReRe Feb 2013 #35

too bad your experiences have been so negative sigmasix Feb 2013 #47

"too bad your experiences have been so negative" but you don't know what you are talking about. niyad Feb 2013 #52

a little reading on women and marriage niyad Feb 2013 #55

Dear Mr One-in-a-million, ReRe Feb 2013 #60

ouch. blackspade Feb 2013 #79

I guess I should have been more explicit... ReRe Feb 2013 #90

You are joking, right? Demeter Feb 2013 #70

Wow! Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #65

Huh? ReRe Feb 2013 #91

you don't speak for me liberal_at_heart Feb 2013 #81

I never insinuated that... ReRe Feb 2013 #92

Unfortunately, it IS the poor who suffer HockeyMom Feb 2013 #16

K&R ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #17

Suffragettes are spinning in their graves Smilo Feb 2013 #18

There is some incredibly powerful words in that speech. Luminous Animal Feb 2013 #19

K&R Squinch Feb 2013 #20

It is very important never to give up this struggle, as or opponents would push women... Nika Feb 2013 #21

It shouldn't BE a "struggle" at this point.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #53

unfortunately, it IS a struggle--and please note that someof these idiots actually have run niyad Feb 2013 #56

There are WOMEN that vote Republican because of wedge issues.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #66

I'm a man - with a wife I adore, a mom I love, and two sisters I cherish; and I'm .... 11 Bravo Feb 2013 #22

A woman voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders Freddie Feb 2013 #28

Every time I read similar threads, ... CRH Feb 2013 #69

if you had read the OP, you might have had some answers. some of the explanations were right niyad Feb 2013 #82

K&R Solly Mack Feb 2013 #23

What "they" call traditional values is nothing more than their pathological fear of change. gtar100 Feb 2013 #24

K&R Z_I_Peevey Feb 2013 #26

I'm with you, and her Lifelong Protester Feb 2013 #27

"failure is impossible" niyad Feb 2013 #29

Yep, duh, I need to up my caffeine intake today! Lifelong Protester Feb 2013 #40

same here niyad Feb 2013 #41

I edited it, to make sure I show no disrespect Lifelong Protester Feb 2013 #42

I think our foremothers would understand. niyad Feb 2013 #57

why am I so angry? for one thing, because there are still people around who are so clueless, niyad Feb 2013 #30

That is the correct answer. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #63

I wish more young women were angry. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #32

I have been tired for decades, but will not give up--sometimes I think they are hoping for us niyad Feb 2013 #34

If they think we will quit they seriously underestimate ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #36

you have that correct niyad Feb 2013 #39

believe me a lot of young women took notice last year when politicians were trying to take their liberal_at_heart Feb 2013 #59

That's good to hear. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #61

Me too -- HS debate Freddie Feb 2013 #84

Mine was in 1971 and I was a junior. ohheckyeah Feb 2013 #89

Women, men, feminists have a right to be angry, and I'm one if the angry... Eleanors38 Feb 2013 #85

"for all women in struggle" kristin lems niyad Feb 2013 #38

I'm tired too, and beaten down. Useless in FL Feb 2013 #46

many of us are tired, and discouraged, and even bewildered. as you asked, where is all this niyad Feb 2013 #51

I did not raise my children to be mere grease on the gears.... alphafemale Feb 2013 #49

Because my constitutional rights are second class curlyred Feb 2013 #50

Because we have a good portion of the population that vote in the assholes that RKP5637 Feb 2013 #58

Yes. And some of them are women themselves--voting against own self interest Left Coast2020 Feb 2013 #62

I'm 57 years old Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #64

Doncha know? Angry women are unattractive. malthaussen Feb 2013 #68

people ask me why I carry such a large purse--I smile sweetly and say, 'because it's legal, niyad Feb 2013 #73

LOL! Leverage -- the first weapons using projected power! Eleanors38 Feb 2013 #86

By the way, that works REALLY good. Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #94

fortunately, I have never needed to use it that way. I have been told that I walk with a serious niyad Feb 2013 #95

If you are on twitter.. PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #74

thank you for letting us know about this, I know many will check it out. niyad Feb 2013 #76

I'm angry because... PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #77

do you have a link to that article? I got a lot of flack over the years for choosing to be niyad Feb 2013 #83

I will try to find it! n/t PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #87

Here... PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #88

apparently some of the worst comments were removed niyad Feb 2013 #93

K&R, I still can't can't believe we have to have to protest this this shit. smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #96

kick for monday crowd niyad Feb 2013 #97

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