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seabeyond

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2. some parallels i found interesting. this happens so often in conversation on du, just to get
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:03 AM
Sep 2012

someone to address what we are saying, not the name calling or way out there bullshit. repugs do the same. i would haev to say this style of argument is used when the side that has no reasonable explanation for a position uses it to demean and dismiss to silence, because they have nothing else.

but i found this interesting.

But why Fluke? Why does a modest, ordinary law student draw so much vicious, over-the-top, sex-phobic and misogynist reactions? Well, it goes back to the narrative that I laid out above. Women like Fluke--white, middle class, intelligent--are the women that get married young and devote their lives to housekeeping in the fantasy “Leave It to Beaver” world for which conservatives long. When they imagine how contraception and abortion freed women to delay marriage and have careers, they aren’t imagining the whole of womanhood, but specifically the Sandra Flukes of the world. When they imagine that these rights sexually liberated women, and allowed them to define their sexuality for themselves, instead of as an extension of men’s, these are the women that come to mind. Fluke is the living embodiment of the woman that’s imagined “getting back to the kitchen.”


they want the white middle class woman in the kitchen, lessening competition and kicking women out of their world. that is a simple on for us. use degradation to slut her into the kitchen.

what is it men are doing with MILF? are they not doing exactly the same, only in an alternate universe way. the role of a mom and they are taking her out of that role with degradation to slut her out.

it is simply one way or another, man wants control and power of womans sexuality.

where are the women even kinda putting all this time and effort into dictating mens sexuality???

i listened to the video of Katherine Turner. that woman is kick ass. so this is twisting a little to what she got me thinking about.

of course, there was one poster that dismissed her and what she was saying (which would be challenging to SOME men) because she is no longer "hot". since she does not turn him on, what she says does not matter.

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