Bernie speaking on 1st day at Women's conference is a great idea & it's easy to show why...

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192. I understand they are women

and I also know they tried to use the women's march to attack Hillary and thereby justify Trump's election.

Women helped Harvey Weinstein lure his victims. Women are actively involved in making abortion illegal. I have known a significant number of women who are misogynists in my life time. The fact is some see their fortunes as tied to men, and they are perfectly happy remaining permanently subordinate and ensuring that other women do the same. Sarah Palin and Kellyanne Conway are women. I have no intention of submitting to their view of who can speak to my rights anymore than I do the organizers of that conference.

I saw the list of speakers. Clearly the point of that conference has little to do with women's rights and everything to do with providing a captive audience for their chosen presidential candidate, as if we only had to hear the same speech one more time and we would finally see the light.

And of course many women have tried speaking to the conference organizers, only to be told they won't refund the money. They got to fund their campaign rally, and that's all they care about, even if they lied to do it.

You made a point of writing this OP to tell everyone why Bernie was the perfect choice to tell women about their rights,or rather, speak to the more important male audience about which rights for women benefit them--which is really what matters. I do not accept his version of what rights I am allowed to exercise and defend, or which are just too "divisive" to be a priority. You decided it was up to you to tell women here that we are wrong to feel slighted that a woman isn't headlining that event, and that all of don't see as a champion for our rights was. That is why I said what I did. And of course it's not the first time you've done it, as evident in your previous posts on the party's deprioritizing abortion rights. You see, that is the baseline for women's rights. It keeps women from dying and they and their children from sinking into desperate poverty. The only way that can be considered a mere "cultural issue" is if the survival of women--75% of the population simply doesn't matter.