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I did my share of marching

trkingmomoe — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:35:28 +0000

I did my share of marching and chanting when I was a young women for women;s rights. We lost the fight for the ERA. We fought hard.

Women's health care started out as a state by state issue for the right to an abortion then finely we won Roe v. Wade. There were some early states that granted abortions before the court made it legal.

There was even an earlier battle to get contraceptives in some states.

Many of us that were on the front line then have been baffled by the fact young women seem to take this all for granted. They should be more involved in protecting their rights because of the political far right.

My Aunt Mary was a Suffragette. She was 17 years older then my mother. She loved talking about it and show her sashing ribbon.

Yeah, my comment mistakenly

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:10:36 +0000

In reply to I did my share of marching

Yeah, my comment mistakenly implies/says that women haven't organized in 100 years. ERA certainly was a good ambitious attempt. How abortion success has fallen back is hard to fathom, except viewed with a mass attempt to debunk science. It's hard to imagine self-respecting men caring to superstition in the space age, but I guess it's city mouse vs country mouse as well. And since men control the dialog, there we have it - progress abandoned.

Most people resist change.

ocean-kat — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 09:11:44 +0000

In reply to I did my share of marching

Most people resist change. Liberal activists have to drag them kicking and screaming into the future. The next generation takes it all for granted and rarely gives any credit to those who made it happen. They, in their turn, have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future. It's always been this way.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

Women's issues always get

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 06:18:19 +0000

In reply to Thanks Ramona. I know women

Women's issues always get shoved under "other" category. Health care should've been a women's issue - I went 20 years without seeing a doctor except a broken bone I dealt with myself (doctor's approach cut-off my circulation, would have been worse than the break for a guitarist). Women don't have this luxury plus they get kids afflictions to deal with besides their own, and get the old folks as well. Yes, the female reproductive system is high maintenance as are kids' low immunity high exposure ones. I looked forward to this election addressing "soft" issues and instead it will be 24x7 Benghazi and some goddam mail server (as if the Chinese aren't hacking *all* our "secret" infosystems and they still haven't cleaned up weaknesses from Bradley Manning and Eric Snowden. And female candidate #2 is out to show she's more Terminator than empathetic female - guess that appeals to the 25-45 immature male set. Yes, it would be great to see a female Occupy Wall Street-like uprising to push these things on the agenda, but that's a lot of work fighting existing structure when you have one party that simply doesn't care, that gets its marching orders from the Old Testament and shrouds itself in anti-science just-be-tough Many of these issues need to be addressed at state level, and need bot a lot of loud people plus money, which women often don't control the way of a Koch Brother or Soros, though Soros would be sympathetic. Lysistrata was written eons ago. The women's suffrage movement was mostly 100 years ago. Perhaps time for another insurrection, digitally enabled and somehow cutting into this self-created smug male control structure that laughs off or disdains any social issue.

The number of rapes that

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 05:32:00 +0000

In reply to In the situation the blogger

The number of rapes that result in jail or any sort of punishment is shockingly low. What were the latest figures on campus rape - date rape and other variants? I've had Looking For Mr Goodbar on my to-watch list for a while - think it roughly covers the time and social settings this post addresses - though I understand the novel is better.

Mansplaining is a term and a

ocean-kat — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 01:41:59 +0000

In reply to It's your "focus", "tone",

Mansplaining is a term and a meme that's used quite often in these types of discussions. If you haven't heard it and don't understand it simply means you haven't done much reading on these topics by feminists.

Anyway, I'm probably wrong. There's no doubt your post was a revelation to arc and other women and surely they are very grateful you explained it to them.

Sorry you've had to go

Ramona — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 01:34:28 +0000

In reply to Thanks Ramona. I know women

Sorry you've had to go through that with your gyno. I decided long ago that my gyno would always be female, and I've never been sorry. Maybe it's time to look around?

I'm surprised that you feel there is that much silence out there about the things you've talked about. There are many feminist websites where writers talk freely about all things sexual, and work to stop the misogyny. Feministing and The Broad Side are two that publish articles all the time about all things sexual and are advocates for Planned Parenthood, and against all things misogynistic.

I've written many times about feminist issues, myself. (Here is one. And another.) Most of what I write is cross-posted here at Dagblog, and the men here are amazing and, for the most part, enlightened. (I don't know how to find them here on Dag!)

If I've misunderstood what you wrote, I apologize. But the last thing I want is for any woman to feel she is fighting her battles alone.

Shhh. Please. Stick with

Ramona — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 01:16:17 +0000

In reply to In the situation the blogger

Shhh. Please. Stick with what you know.

It's your "focus", "tone",

HSG — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 23:55:00 +0000

In reply to It's the focus of your

Thanks for the construction criticism Kat. I'll be working on my "focus", "tone", and "condescending manner". Not sure what I can do about the "mansplaining". I'm a man and sometimes I do explain things.

In the situation the blogger

HSG — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 23:52:11 +0000

In reply to They can bring a condom, but

In the situation the blogger described there is an easy answer. She describes herself as horny and wanting sex but not wanting to get pregnant. Well, there are ways to have sex and not to get pregnant. As I noted, the pill or IUD plus a condom is ideal. Sure, the guy might not want to wear it but she can refuse to engage in intercourse under those circumstances. If he won't take no for an answer, hopefully, he'll go to jail for a while.