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Your point is well accepted. You took it a few steps deeper from my comment... yet it's based on male emotion only which I'm not belittling.

Mine was based on men being political on women's pains. They can't know what they're talking about. A headache they can understand but anything about a pregnancy... no. Abortion...no. Amputation... yes. Menstruation...no. A toothache..yes. Hot flashes...no. A broken leg...yes.

This guy Mannion is using his mom's supposed experience to gain votes. Supposed because we do not have proof if his mother actually carried a stillborn. D's lie. Why didn't his mom do something about the issue?

Do you see my point?

This guy Mannion is using ~~his mom's~~ someone else's supposed experience to gain votes.

The fact that Mannion is himself male while his mother was female is irrelevant. And it is no worse than, say, Biden referencing his having marched with and been arrested together with Martin Luther King, Jr., or having sat in prison next to Nelson Mandela, or driven an 18-wheeler.

They are all lies, to be sure - but why bother attempting to disprove them? It's much easier and more elegant to simply point out that they are non sequiturs, as well as "Appeals to Authority" (namely: to himself).

Modern leftists take this one step further (catchword: Intersectionality) and claim that a heterosexual White man doesn't have the "lived experience" of, say, a homosexual Hispanic man... They essentially want to atomize society to the point that we have a myriad categories of human beings, all bearing different labels, so that no one is "allowed" to speak out against / on what someone else is saying - effectively paralyzing the democratic process.

So that, when it comes to voting on, say, a School Lunch Proposition, or even a Solar-Powered Pedestrian "Walk / Don't Walk" Sign Initiative, no one but single Black mothers or (respectively) wheelchair-bound drug addicts who frequent the South Side Free Clinic are "allowed" to voice an opinion about it.

So please accept a well-intentioned chiding from a fellow FReeper on your position re. "men being political on women's pains." The problem is: It doesn't stop there.

But thank you anyway for your kind words!

Regards,