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In reply to the discussion: RadFeminists are making it difficult for the Democratic party to fight the GOP's attack on women [View all]MH1
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RadFeminists are making it difficult for the Democratic party to fight the GOP's attack on women [View all]
Harmony Blue
Jun 2012
OP
What you said! I read this OP and thought WTF?. ya, not really. more, i got his #
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#43
i have already run into this poster in a game thread earlier today. divisive is women speaking out.
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#52
i saw one. ALL the women in a lifetime i talk to and never a word. yes they know a few. simply
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#53
ya know. seeing how i scour the net to find topics to post, you would think i would run into ONE
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#67
that is right, maybe it is not shared with those of us that DON'T have. ya never know. nt
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#88
The plan is to keep them only until they have a good recipe and a marketing plan -
undeterred
Jun 2012
#125
Yep, and one for BBQ rocky mountain oysters on a stick. Could be sold at football games.
crunch60
Jun 2012
#172
"Until the RadFems tone down their malicious, misandrist rhetoric," Nonsense.
RadiationTherapy
Jun 2012
#3
maybe the women are buying into the "family value" issue cause of the pornification of our women?
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#259
Ok, but where do get women are supporting the GOP more than the Democrats?
liberal N proud
Jun 2012
#260
The lesbian daughter, if partnered, will have to take that .77 : 1.00 ration times two.
shcrane71
Jun 2012
#256
Apparently you don't see the irony in using a right wing term like "RadFems" to exhort the left to
scarletwoman
Jun 2012
#11
Complaints about anti-woman slurs, objectifying comments, and other offensive, bigoted behavior
redqueen
Jun 2012
#253
Need to name names because don't know any radfeminists turning off other women.
kiranon
Jun 2012
#12
all the women, in all the world that i talk to i have never heard one even come close to making
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#48
then why do we even care about them. and how drunk were they. had they just had the shit kick out
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#68
omg.... if i dig deep enough, and spend enough time, i MIGHT find some woman say something
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#77
I've heard this sort of thing, too. But it was clearly hyperbole/tongue-in-cheek.
kestrel91316
Jun 2012
#109
or he was a smart ass, cocky student challenging the woman professor thru out her class
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#163
"Rad Fems oppose pornography which is why they are not received well by society as a whole"
cyberswede
Jun 2012
#162
Didn't you know that brazzers.com is the great social litmus test of our age?
Scootaloo
Jun 2012
#166
you are sounding a bit hysterical, you know foaming at the mouth. HE asked for calm and reasoned,
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#71
i was in a good place as far as sexism was concerned, and remember the racism and homophobia
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#118
yep yep and yep. ones on uncontrolled boards that say the most amazing things. don't marry american
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#146
"RadFems"? Seriously? You kvetch about hyperbole/rhetoric and use a right-wing neologism.
Solly Mack
Jun 2012
#19
There's absolutely nothing "radfem" about what women have been saying and I'm a man...
steve2470
Jun 2012
#26
thank you for pointing that out. i saw i had to reply to a poster that went all hysterical on my
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#76
for a lifetime bullying has been an easy tell for me, and pretty damn fast. you are absolutely right
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#121
Did someone spray crazy anti-feminism juice over part of the country in the last 72 hours?
stevenleser
Jun 2012
#49
They are definitely outliers and not representative. This group self identifies with that label.
stevenleser
Jun 2012
#73
I found the term I was looking for, it's seperatist feminism. RadFem2012 is for seperatists.
stevenleser
Jun 2012
#359
They do, but I have been using the wrong terms. It really doesnt matter, the OP is wrongheaded
stevenleser
Jun 2012
#349
Trolls are making it difficult for DU to continue anything resembling a thoughtful discussion
KamaAina
Jun 2012
#85
oh mr OP man.... come out and play. we are being oh so calm and logical like instructed.
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#86
Who are these majority of female registered voters that buy into what the GOP is saying?
undeterred
Jun 2012
#97
i knew the wave battle was bullshit once we were hit with it. then i did months of research
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#130
I think she was talking about a mans opinion, not another woman's opinion.
boston bean
Jun 2012
#303
Sometimes, I do feel it is used to diminish the patriarchal effect on women.
boston bean
Jun 2012
#331
maybe that is the difference. maybe we see how another POV effects us all. nt
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#309
this would be the difference of seeing the whole and viewing individually. the issue. you defined
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#328
you cannot dismiss what i say merely by telling me i cannot state it or insult me.
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#335
no. you are not giving back what i give. you are not liking the view of 3rd wave
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#339
"not a true feminist." you are the only one that has said that, and repeatedly. woman,
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#342
That censorship you speak of is a two way street, when we as women are discussing this......
boston bean
Jun 2012
#267
Being anti porn as a woman and speaking out against it is not a censorship issue
boston bean
Jun 2012
#284
what does anti porn entail? and where does it say that a radfem does not have sex with a man? nt
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#281
Are you positive about all this? All radical feminists are also separatists and political lesbians?
redqueen
Jun 2012
#287
no. you said you thought i was anti porn. which is fair enough. i am asking you to define
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#317
so banning/censorship is not a must in defining anti porn? steinem is absolutely anti porn and sat
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#326
those are not my words. you declared that steinem did not have a firm position. i disagreed
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#336
hey DU "feminists". we will never say a peep about contraceptives and payact. bad and sad us....
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#350
Just as long as you keep your place and avoid carrying garden shears.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2012
#126
Harmony Blue seems to have run like his ass was on fire and his hair was catching
Scootaloo
Jun 2012
#117
I haven't encountered any truly radical feminists since grad school in the north east.
aikoaiko
Jun 2012
#122
i am scared mommy,make it stop. are these our RADnuns. i love me my radnuns. lol
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#171
the last half dozen living second wave feminists aren't exactly setting the public agenda
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Jun 2012
#168
Julie Bindel is one of "the last half dozen living second wave feminists"? She's 50
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2012
#249
i think many do not understand what the real divide is. many feel the fun fem is about individual
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#319
I think the 'victims' are doing pretty well in this instance. This started as another "OMFG I can't
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#177
Given the demographics of the site I'm more disappointed than surprised. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jun 2012
#246
Harmony, I'll give you this. You've managed to scare your "men's rights" buddies into mass hysteria.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#182
For those of you who think radical feminists are like unicorns, wiki is your friend
Major Nikon
Jun 2012
#190
it is always interesting to hear men, carlin, define women. what they think and what they care about
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#248
why wouldnt it make sense there would be different areas in feminism. some more interested in one
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#250
you are going off a stereotypical white middle age mans definition of women and IGNORING
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#255
to suggest that a white man defining the womans movement, what we think and what we believe
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#292
are you suggesting we should put more weight in what a man says defining women, than what women say?
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#377
"It is also a big mistake to label a 2nd wave feminist as a 3rd wave, as it is considered an insult.
sufrommich
Jun 2012
#210
Don't forget about all the women who can't stop being fascsinated by this idiotic 'wave' crap.
redqueen
Jun 2012
#241
because it is all about your porn, and putting women in the back of the bus, isnt it. nt
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#238
i know. i started hearing ACCUSATION (as if an insult) of radfem. wiki'ed it and ah man,
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#236
So you choose to ignore all the feminists who take issue with radical feminism?
Major Nikon
Jun 2012
#313
ALL the feminist that have issue? the thing. the last handful of months i have been doing massive
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#323
it is how it is used and defined by others though. no different than liberal,
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#297
Was there a contest to see how many straw men arguments you could get in one post?
REP
Jun 2012
#200
do you know why these women dont buy into the left? moral decay. pornifying women. you get it???
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#254
Incorrect statement:It is quite apparent the majority of female registered voters are buying in
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#239
Bear in mind Harmony Blue had a post hidden for calling 2 DUers 'radical feminists'
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2012
#265
Yes, I am a PROUD Radical Feminist. Not a separatist, or a political lesbian.
redqueen
Jun 2012
#301
i dont know what the fuck i am. i have surprisingly been labeled about everything
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#304
i heard there were four forms of feminism in the 70s and rad was merely one. there was nothing
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#346
Few people could mistake calling out the mischaracterization (radicals are fringe)
redqueen
Jun 2012
#356
bah hahaha. i take it to factual definition and you turn it into a personal attack. you are a hoot
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#358
I hope someone sent a TOS alert on that one... By all rights that should earn him a PPR.
hlthe2b
Jun 2012
#369
I alerted on this and checked the ToS box, but it had already been adjudicated.
demmiblue
Jun 2012
#372
It is good that you can lol about this poster. However, there is a quality about his...
demmiblue
Jun 2012
#375
exactly. and i can see by the definition of radical how that would seem totally out of the norm....
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#384
i have heard you make this statement in the past. i can always appreciate this
seabeyond
Jun 2012
#353