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#MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly
UK Guardian ^ | January 16, 2018 | Barbara Kingsolver

Posted on 01/18/2018 9:09:49 AM PST by C19fan

In each of my daughters’ lives came the day in fifth grade when we had to sit on her bed and practise. I pretended to be the boy in class who was making her sick with dread. She had to look right at me and repeat the words until they felt possible, if not easy: “Don’t say that to me. Don’t do that to me. I hate it.” As much as I wanted to knock heads around, I knew the only real solution was to arm a daughter for self-defence. But why was it so hard to put teeth into that defence? Why does it come more naturally to smile through clenched teeth and say “Oh, stop,” in the mollifying tone so regularly, infuriatingly mistaken for flirtation?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; genderwars; metoo
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A real Robespierre this one.
1 posted on 01/18/2018 9:09:49 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

what if they are already ugly?


2 posted on 01/18/2018 9:12:13 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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I am 100% in favor of women getting ‘ugly’ and going after abusers, but NEVER with fake charges.

If you falsely accuse someone, that should require mandatory jail time of the amount of time that the other person would have spent in jail if convicted. (even if the sculpture of limitations has run out)


3 posted on 01/18/2018 9:12:24 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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“Now Women need to get Ugly!!!

I can hear the posts already...

No.. Please don’t post a Helen Thomas photo!!!


4 posted on 01/18/2018 9:12:38 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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#MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly

Okay

Good_Lord_NO

5 posted on 01/18/2018 9:12:51 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: C19fan

LOOOOOOOOL!!!! Ya can’t make this stuff up!


6 posted on 01/18/2018 9:14:12 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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Women need to get ugly? Girlfriend, the DNC is WAY ahead of you already! We got "ugly" down to a science!


7 posted on 01/18/2018 9:14:37 AM PST by SparkyBass
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Too close to the above-ground test would be my guess. Or else the timer crapped out in the tanning bed.


8 posted on 01/18/2018 9:15:04 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: God luvs America

Yeah, apparently this assclown hasn’t seen the photos.


9 posted on 01/18/2018 9:15:50 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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"MeToo" isn't satisfied with their women membership being mean and crazy, now they want them to be ugly as well?

Interesting approach.

10 posted on 01/18/2018 9:15:55 AM PST by GregoTX
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First of all I am teaching my two boys to be complete gentleman it all starts with the father with their boys that’s number one

Number two girls have all the power and you make boys where around like yo-yos since they have all the well girl ness

All the girls have to do to keep stupid boys is team up and humiliate them

That’s the end of that nonsense

Any boy that’s really out of control gets pounded on by the gentlemen and taught how to behave


11 posted on 01/18/2018 9:16:04 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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Shouldn’t be hard to do, what with Streep, Whoopie, Obama’s husband Michael, Doprah, Rosie, _____ (fill in the blank)


12 posted on 01/18/2018 9:16:09 AM PST by laweeks
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To: God luvs America

The ugly ones don’t really have that much to worry about. Frankly, this whole thing is probably wishful thinking on their part.


13 posted on 01/18/2018 9:16:32 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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The author is a long-time hysterical feminist. She takes time out of her rant to fulminate against the Confederate flag and fathers who give away their daughters during marriage ceremonies. Typical rich, first-world feminazi with daddy issues.


14 posted on 01/18/2018 9:17:03 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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She looks like the guy from the horror movie who ripped his own face off and got skin grafts later.


15 posted on 01/18/2018 9:18:08 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: SparkyBass

Medusa.


16 posted on 01/18/2018 9:18:31 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: C19fan

Let’s dance.


17 posted on 01/18/2018 9:19:30 AM PST by Ted Grant
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Most of them have already succeeded.


18 posted on 01/18/2018 9:20:52 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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“In each of my daughters’ lives came the day in fifth grade when we had to sit on her bed and practise. I pretended to be the boy in class who was making her sick with dread. “

O———k


19 posted on 01/18/2018 9:21:06 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Too late. Maybe the writer means, “uglier”, or “disgusting”.

The woman in my house is beautiful and intelligent.


20 posted on 01/18/2018 9:22:08 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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