I catch a lot of hell for being a centrist and even I am terrified by the antifeminism we see today [View all]

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Those of you who know me on DU know that I am pretty much to the right of most of this board on several issues. E.G., I'm more or less pro-corporately-managed trade, anti-gun-control, and relatively hawkish on defense (again, in the context of this board; I'm still slightly to the left of Obama on a lot of these issues).

So, if any other "centrists" or "serious people" need a wake up call, I hope this can serve as it for you: there is a broad, deep, and horrifying war on women being conducted as we speak in state houses all over the country, and in the Capitol itself. These are our mothers, sisters, friends, lovers, girlfriends, and wives, and they are having their lives put on the line by people who censure legislators who say the word "vagina".

To the extent that I am part of the "centrist" orthodoxy on DU, let me say unequivocally that there is in fact a war on women being waged, and anyone who does not stand up against it will face the same hisses from posterity that temporizers about racial civil rights from the 1960s did.