Posted on 10/20/2014 2:36:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’ – Sigmund Freud
Though the mystery of feminine wants has stumped poets, philosophers, and the father of psychoanalysis, today’s Democratic politicians think they’ve found the key — at least to the political desires of most women: a single-minded focus on the gynecological.
Republicans, whipsawed by the results of 2012 races that featured large gender gaps, particularly among single women, and aware that women have trended Democrat for decades, seem bewildered. A Karl Rove-commissioned study found that women voters consider the Republican Party “intolerant” and “lacking in compassion.” Consultants, gnawing nervously on polling and demographic data, implore Republican candidates to emphasize economic questions and soft-pedal the social issues. The candidates themselves, uncomfortable with the whole subject and wondering why they can’t just discuss the capital gains tax, mumble about how much they love their wives and eye the exits.
Democrats are running against monsters. They are running to protect American women from the hostile, patriarchal, domineering men of the Republican Party. (Chivalry is not dead!) In the Democrats’ ghoulish caricature, Republicans are not just wrong on the issues that women care about, but are barely above criminals. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, used rhetoric only slightly more florid than the Democratic norm when she said of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, “What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.”
Republicans who think they can avoid women’s issues, or blunt their power by talk of entrepreneurship or free markets, are rewarding the Democrats’ tactics. Silence gives consent. Moreover, they are conveying their fear that the Democrats’ interpretation of women’s wants is correct. They may even believe it more sincerely than Democrats themselves.
Democrats claim to believe that most women want what liberal Democrats want — taxpayer-funded abortion for any reason, free contraceptives, and so forth. “Issues like access to birth control and abortion will get voters to the polls this November,” predicted Dawn Laguens of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. But Democratic campaign commercials reveal something else: They dare not present Republican positions accurately. The “Republicans want to outlaw abortion and contraception” lie has arguably replaced the “Republicans want to take away your Medicare” as the chief scare tactic in the dishonest Democratic arsenal.
A number of Democrats are running ads this month claiming that Republicans seek to “ban all abortions even in cases of rape and incest.” Democrat John Foust in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District is airing a commercial that features a sweater-clad, thirtysomething woman telling the camera that Republican Barbara Comstock opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. “That’s all I need to know,” the appalled sweater lady announces as she turns to leave. In fact, Comstock, who is pro-life, is on record supporting exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
FactCheck.org, noting that similar false claims were made about Mitt Romney in 2012, sums up the tactic: “In race after race, Democratic ads are misrepresenting, distorting and exaggerating their Republican opponents’ position on abortion to make them seem more strict (and therefore less popular) than they really are.”
Meanwhile, two Democratic Senate campaigns — Sen. Mark Udall’s in Colorado and Rep. Bruce Braley’s in Iowa — are peddling howling distortions of their opponents’ views on contraception. Udall’s ads accuse Rep. Cory Gardner of conducting an “8-year crusade to outlaw birth control.” In Iowa, Rep. Bruce Braley is running spots suggesting that Republican Joni Ernst would “outlaw most common forms of birth control.” Other campaigns are following the same script.
In truth, no Republican candidate favors outlawing or even limiting the availability of birth control. The Democrats’ case goes like this: Some Republicans have supported so-called “personhood” amendments — most did so to confirm their pro-life beliefs — and if you stretch the concept in a particular direction, and you presume certain implementing legislation, and you posit that the law would survive a court challenge, then such initiatives could possibly result in some forms of birth control such as the IUD (but not the pill, which is frequently flashed on screen during political ads) being considered abortifacients and outlawed. But as FactCheck.org and others agree, this interpretation requires more assumptions and speculation than can withstand reasonable scrutiny, and it flies in the face of explicit statements to the contrary by Republican candidates.
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See post 49, I got quite an indignant response, completely devoid of facts of course!
Your rhetorical tactic, and lack of an answer to the question I actually asked, only serves to demonstrate the validity of my thesis.
You stated what I did (plus some),
that feminists may try to claim “independence” all they want,
but when they vote for gov’t to take care of them,
they’re showing their “wiring” and hypocrisy.
For what it’s worth, I’ve made your exact same argument, including example, to a feminist friend and received the exact same response ;)
But....SAMMICHES!!!!
Look. Lets cut to the chase. I am a man. you are a woman. Unless I demand sammiches, how can the war on women meme perpetuate? I feel I must demand sammiches or some lib somewhere won’t consider me a mysogynist. I have to be seen as a knuckle dragging, wife beater type. It’s the rules.
I cannot imagine ‘not’ being the anti-woman, dominating opressor that clearly the left paints me and other right wing men as.Clearly that is a fate I cannot endure. I have to maintain that stereotype. I feel called to.
Thus, I have to say...
WOMAN! SAMMICHES!!!
It’s fun seeing their heads explode isn’t it?! The best part is that the argument is based on fact and they cannot refute it with facts or logic. The head exploding occurs because they KNOW it is the truth but refuse to admit it.
ROFLMTO...this isn’t college, it’s real life.
:Splits open biscuit, scoops on some beans and corned beef, puts top back on:
There,you have your sammich.
:Shakes head:
Men can be so odd!
See? Was that so hard? I just used the phrase “The natural order will reassert itself” on another thread and like magic, a sammich was created. PROVING that the natural order between man and woman has been maintained.
Of course it was some Frenchie looking sammich thing but it qualifies so God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.
;)
Bump for after work! :)
How could you?
See if I ever give you a sammich again.
Frenchie looking! Humph!
I’m sorry you seem to have personal issues with women. It takes a lot of negative emotion to come up with your comments. I don’t want to be the one to push you over the edge. Take a breath and try to calm down. :-)
lol, So now the truth can only be a symptom of negative emotions or someone who is out of control. That’s hilarious! Unlike you, I do not base my opinions on emotion. I can say this because you still have yet to refute a single thing I have posted. Not one single thing!
Look you are already frothing at the mouth I said I don’t want to be the one who pushes you over the edge. Have a nice day try to come to terms with the ex or whatever. :-)
lol, I will as soon as you steal a functioning brain. What an idiot...and yet to refute ONE single fact that I posted, not one, yet again.
Making the statement that 99% of the women in the country are dependent on a man isn’t exactly the factoid of the week. LOL!
Your shrink must have given you a valium as I see you are back to one sentence rants. Look I’m sorry the mean girls tease you around the water fountain at work but you do kind of sit up and beg for it. :-)
lol, you have zero credibility since you have yet to show one iota of logic. You have not proven a single thing that I have said to be untrue, not one! Not one refutation with facts, not one! Keep deflecting and making it personal, two can play that game...
I never said 99% were dependent, but I did say most of them are, and as we have seen, I am the one providing the facts here not you! You have yet to prove that, or anything else that I have posted wrong. I know the truth must sting so much since I am sure Daddy told his lil’ princess that she could be just as good as any man. Let me guess, the last man you slept with wore the same cologne or after shave that Daddy did...didn’t he?
My woman has very few wants and even less needs. A wonderful woman who is pro life, pro gun and pro freedom. We lived in a tent after I ETS’d for a year with two daughters and a great watchdog and now we live in a 2200 square foot house with a camp we keep on a lake in NH. We were happy then and we are happy now. And if we needed to go back to the tent or live in the small camp on the lake we would be fine with that as well. Give her a radial arm saw, a drill press and a good power driver and she’s as happy as a lark in spring.
Where is your empirical evidence that “Most” women are dependent on men? You don’t have it because its not true. Sadly you have personal issues that cloud your outlook on women and lead you to believe any kind of article that alludes to a non factual conclusion.
Most women in America go to work everyday and work fulltime. The ones who are married have additional duties day in and day out that they share an unequal portion of. Now there is empirical data to support that theory.
Obviously the women who are unmarried support themselves and work fulltime. They have no man to help them out.
I’m thinking maybe your boss is s woman. :-)
Did you study the links I included in my posts, or did you do what women do and ignore facts because they do not fit your narrative?
Most women DO NOT work full time, and even fewer want to. Most women do not earn as much as men, no matter how many times you click your heels together and hope the facts are not gonna change. Read what I have provided, do your own research if you do not believe me. Just stop ignoring the facts!
I have personal experiences and research that have given me my views, not pie in the sky wishful thinking and hoping like you have. Refute what I have posted with actual data, not your uninformed opinion, which obviously exists because of some daddy issues somewhere.
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