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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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To: C19fan

I think the bell curve has already taken care of the “ugly” part.


21 posted on 01/18/2018 9:22:19 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: C19fan

Aging takes care of this naturally. They get less attractive physically, and 90% get meaner too.


22 posted on 01/18/2018 9:23:17 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: C19fan
women are widely complicit in the assumption that we’re separate and not quite equal

If this were not true then women would call for an end to tennis and golf tournaments restricted to women. You would think they'd be especially pissed at chess tournaments restricted to women, but they're not.

ML/NJ

23 posted on 01/18/2018 9:23:42 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: C19fan

Child abuse. Filling their children’s heads with this.


24 posted on 01/18/2018 9:24:04 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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Ugly women need loving too
But they gotta pay


25 posted on 01/18/2018 9:24:19 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Morpheus2009
Cat Woman ... . Also:

NoNoNo

26 posted on 01/18/2018 9:24:33 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: C19fan

Too late.


27 posted on 01/18/2018 9:24:38 AM PST by Trillian
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To: tired&retired
No.. Please don’t post a Helen Thomas photo!!!

Ok...we won't.


28 posted on 01/18/2018 9:25:09 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: C19fan

29 posted on 01/18/2018 9:25:29 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: tired&retired
No.. Please don’t post a Helen Thomas photo!!!

There's a move afoot to ban those under the Geneva convention as a weapon of mass defenestration (WMD).

30 posted on 01/18/2018 9:25:35 AM PST by Jonah Hex
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To: Mr. K

There is a difference between sexual abuse and harmless flirtation, just like there is a difference between rape and a consensual sexual encounter that makes a woman feel cheap the next morning so she changes her mind and claims it was rape. That crap makes me furious and I think false accusations should be harshly punished by law.

The MeToo stuff wasn’t ever just about reporting sexual abuse. I think it’s just another plank in the feminazi platform and another way to vilify men in general, scream about hateful masculinity and try to put like-minded women into positions of power. Like the gay agenda, these kinds of women don’t really want equality. They want pre-eminence and all the power.

It’s disgusting.

Peach


31 posted on 01/18/2018 9:25:40 AM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: C19fan

No Makeup, stop shaving and wear Crocks everywhere you go?


32 posted on 01/18/2018 9:26:09 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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To: Truthoverpower
I like your approach. Especially where they call in the Shepherds at the end.

"People fall into three categories: Sheep, Shepherd, and Wolf. Which one are you?"

33 posted on 01/18/2018 9:26:22 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Medusa

At least at one time, Medusa was beautiful.

34 posted on 01/18/2018 9:26:26 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: C19fan

I thought they already are..I mean have you seen them..a bunch of ugly liberals PO’D that no guy will take them


35 posted on 01/18/2018 9:27:14 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Truthoverpower

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

White knights are funny


36 posted on 01/18/2018 9:27:58 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Bonemaker

37 posted on 01/18/2018 9:28:10 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

wow, her(?) pic needs to be on medication/chemicals that say “if swallowed induce vomiting”


38 posted on 01/18/2018 9:29:52 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: C19fan
These women really got ugly while degrading their sex unimaginably:


39 posted on 01/18/2018 9:30:47 AM PST by yoe ("The FBI did everything but drive Hillary's get away car.......")
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To: rjsimmon

True. LOL!


40 posted on 01/18/2018 9:31:34 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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