Alan Grayson's Divorce issue. It just got sadder. There's video

[CherokeeDem]

331. Once again..

you choose to describe yourself, and others, as feminists while insinuating that I am not. I've read a post where someone from the feminist group made fun of those of us who say we are for equal rights for women, as if we are not being truthful. It appears to me that if we don't belong to your group, we can't possibly be feminists.

You have no idea how hard I have worked over the years to promote women's issues. I have helped write legislation to provide equal pay for women. I have worked and supported women running for office. I have mentored many young women. I've worked with domestic violence victims, and women veterans issues. So don't refer to someone as not being a feminist when you don't know.

As for the word shrill.. I stand behind that word... the needless sharp, piercing retorts from some of the participants in many of the discussions I have seen on this board are uncalled for and ineffective. Such rhetoric does nothing to persuade anyone and only tends to incite. I understand the passion but passion often leads to bad judgment.

There is not a stand that the 'feminists' on this board have taken that I disagree with. That said, there is rarely a argument made here that is effective. Everyone ends up doing the 'you shut up... no you shut up' posts and it goes nowhere. It is well understood that there are men and women on this board that lay in wait for someone to make a statement they can pounce on and start a flame war. The problem is too many fall victim to the baiting and don't realize they're being played for sport. That behavior prompts the people being baited to retaliate and nothing is accomplished.

I am a woman who has been sexually harassed, passed over in the workplace for a lessor qualified male, and had to fight for what I deserved. I didn't do it by being an anonymous poster on a political board. I did it in the real world. I hope the feminists on this board are fighting hard in real life as hard as they choose to argue here.