Young Women Will Never Stop Talking About Sexism

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 20, 2024, 9:00 a.m. ET | Jessica Grose

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was not going to write any more election post-mortems based on the current data. California is still counting votes, and it will take months for the whole picture of the electorate to come into focus.

But that hasn’t stopped chatter from strategists and politicians about the ways Democrats should change their candidates and messaging. There has been heavy emphasis on appealing to young men specifically, with many advising that the left should go about manufacturing its own Joe Rogan. One articulation of this viewpoint comes from Richard Reeves, who writes in an op-ed in The Boston Globe that Democrats shouldn’t talk about sexism, and claims that the problem is that they haven’t focused enough on issues affecting boys and men. James Carville keeps repeating the charge that “preachy females” are the problem and Democratic messaging comes across as “too feminine.”

It feels absurd to ask rank-and-file Democrats to stop talking about sexism when Donald Trump himself and several of his cabinet picks so far have credible accusations of sexual misconduct lodged against them, and when Trump’s campaign sunk to new lows in disparaging women.

Democrats should absolutely be soul-searching and figuring out ways to win. But Reeves’s suggestions — “More investments in vocational training, for example in apprenticeships and technical high schools, would mostly help boys and men to secure better jobs” — were already an explicit part of Harris’s platform for economic opportunity, which she talked up on the campaign trail.

Harris did not mention sexism as a reason for her loss in her concession speech. And the...

[Jeff Chandler]

Young Women Will Never Stop Talking About Sexism

There, fixed it.

[TexasKamaAina]

I was telling my wife about the story the TYT woman told about a guy grabbing her hips and pushing his erection into her. My wife said that’s just normal stuff women have to put up with.

It's not normal. It's assault. Anyone doing that to a female member of my family would regret it.

[Valpal1]

“She just sees this kind of stuff as something young women have to put up with”

Not “have to put up with”. Learn to deal with, because even if you’re low on the Hot/Crazy matrix, there are always weird males who will try it on with almost any female.

19th century women used hatpins and knitting needles to keep offenders in check.

There’s a reason women prefer to travel in pairs or groups even if it’s just to the bathroom.

I’ve always found the best defense is to be loud, crazy loud and call them out.

[atc23]

No one likes the Matriarchy?

Color me surprised /s

[cuban leaf]

I wasn’t around at the time stuff like that was happening to her, but yeah. What you said. She said that on a trip to Italy in her early 20’s (mid 70’s) her butt got pinched a lot. And yeah, it was annoying for her.

[Adder]

Women can talk about seismic all they want.

No one has to listen.

No one cares.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Spell check gotcha.

[Varsity Flight]

Women should never be out in public unchaperoned. ✖️

Manchurian projectors, go one Way or the other
Wheat and Tares. The End of the Age

[mfish13]

It’s the NYT’s Jake.

[Adder]

Yes...grrrrr

[Vaduz]

Young Women Will Never Stop Talking About Sexism

Agree I seen a woman with Levies on and lettering on them that said It won’t Spank Itself.