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To: ansel12
You have got to lay off this personal vendetta, thread crossing, stalking, name calling, everyone of your posts on this thread seem to be about your personal feelings about me and evidently some old threads, rather than this thread.

That is because you simply ignore the substantive points I've made. It's an old tactic, I guess, to get around having to actually debate opposing viewpoints.

If you are a crank, people are going to want to joke with you some times. If you focus on your actual argument and the arguments against them maybe you can win people over to your point of view. If you just go on and on indignantly or censoriously about the initial joking it just makes critics and skeptics think they were right to begin with.

I think that most conservatives recognize the reality, scope, and success of the women’s movement, it is THE single biggest element in the destruction of America, it isn’t just some vague thing, or just another creation of those evil men.

You'd have to look for a while before you'd come up with people who'd say that. I'm not saying that plenty might not nod in mild or bemused or exasperated agreement if you said it. I'm talking about people who'd volunteer that opinion without prompting and build a worldview around it.

I'm also not saying that there aren't other cranks who obsess about Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan. It's just that the controversy has a very old-fashioned sound to it by now.

That's not to say that feminism or the women's movement is a good thing. It's just not at the center of other people's consciousness the way it is of yours. It's not the topic of most conversations here.

I hope most of us can oppose the latest bit of feminist nonsense without seeing it as the end of the world. Maybe we can see Steinem, Friedan, and the rest as a part of history, rather than as THE great monster threatening our future.

Anyway, this is going nowhere, so I'll stop responding. I am interested, though, to see which group you're going to attack next.

174 posted on 03/11/2013 3:36:31 PM PDT by x
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No wonder I ran into so much trouble with the Romney crowd.

Even being against the women’s movement and feminism angers them.


175 posted on 03/11/2013 3:53:45 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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