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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: Bonemaker

She brings a case of Romulan Ale across the Neutral Zone every now and then...care for a snort?


41 posted on 01/18/2018 9:33:55 AM PST by Patriot777 ("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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To: C19fan

She frightened her daughters and twisted their thinking?
Seems a rather monstrous thing to do.


42 posted on 01/18/2018 9:42:43 AM PST by buwaya
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To: C19fan

Women need to get their modesty back and stop throwing all they have at the male species and expecting the male species, in general, to not notice the body.. just flatter what she is broadcasting.

This does not implicate ALL women... just the ones who advertise and then are surprised at the outcome. ‘Surprised’ doesn’t apply to ALL women either.


43 posted on 01/18/2018 9:48:32 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: C19fan

I’m in favor of women making themselves beautiful.


44 posted on 01/18/2018 9:51:51 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: miss marmelstein
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.


Barbara Kingsolver, the authoress. Appears to be everything you say.

45 posted on 01/18/2018 9:58:28 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Phew. What a face.


46 posted on 01/18/2018 10:01:48 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: SkyDancer

Jocelyn Wildenstein, NY socialite who had numerous surgeries ‘cause seh wanted to look like a cat.


47 posted on 01/18/2018 10:05:09 AM PST by brianr10
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To: Morpheus2009

She is famous for her plastic surgery excesses. Jocelyn Wildenstein https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Wildenstein


48 posted on 01/18/2018 10:06:42 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Bonemaker

Lt. (j.g.) Kerry did not have red hair when I knew him.


49 posted on 01/18/2018 10:08:54 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: VietVet876
I know you are probably being sarcastic, but this woman did this to herself with plastic surgery.

Looks like between the surgery and the botox injections, she has made herself even more beautiful. /s/

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50 posted on 01/18/2018 10:09:51 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: C19fan

Don’t play hard to get.
Play hard to want.


51 posted on 01/18/2018 10:28:05 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: C19fan

And if ‘signals’ are being misread or ignored, behave as if the place was haunted and “Get Out!”

Don’t stick around.


52 posted on 01/18/2018 10:29:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: miss marmelstein

Does she have any tips for women to beware of dykes that will date rape and pressure them to have sex?

Any advice for boys in what to do when a female teacher sends them nude pics and invites them over for liquor and drug parties?


53 posted on 01/18/2018 10:32:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: C19fan

Always was a tough decision whether to go ugly early or wait.


54 posted on 01/18/2018 10:39:45 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: C19fan
A festival of self-loathing.


55 posted on 01/18/2018 10:40:30 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Winning isn't as easy as I make it look. -- Donald J. Trump)
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To: C19fan; All
LOS ANGELES — French actress Brigitte Bardot has criticized the #MeToo movement and said that she has never been a victim of sexual harassment.

In an interview with Paris Match magazine, Bardot asserted that for actresses specifically, "not women in general," "the vast majority of cases" are "hypocritical, ridiculous, without interest."

The 83-year-old added that the topic takes away from "important themes that could be discussed." Bardot became an international sex symbol after her starring role in 1956's "And God Made Woman." "I thought it was nice to be told that I was beautiful or that I had a nice little ass," she said. "This kind of compliment is nice."

Bardot went on to say that actresses "come on" to producers to get roles, "and then, so they'll be talked about, they say they were harassed." She added: "In reality, rather than helping them, it hurts them."

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Bridgette Bardot was not only beautiful in her day, but she is a living legion- and very intelligent. Too bad the French are too stupid to appreciate her intelligence.

She told them long ago that the Muzzie colonists flooding into France were destroying their culture. She was fined and even locked up for expressing her views.

I might add; she established one of the largest animal care organizations in the world, and has given to it vast amounts of her own money. What a wonderful woman- and so shamfully under-appreciated!

56 posted on 01/18/2018 10:59:50 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) SEE MY TEXAS PAGE!)
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To: yoe

It would have been hilarious to see a counter-demonstration by the League for Men (or some such similarly-named organization), also carrying signs saying, “I love vaginas, too!”

Just sayin’.


57 posted on 01/18/2018 11:02:19 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Truthoverpower

Better yet if you love your boys teach them they do not need women at all to be happy or live a good life. Otherwise they will be just like allcthe rest of the tricked men, waiting to be divorce raped sometime in the future.


58 posted on 01/18/2018 11:39:08 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I noted that when Sarah Palin was VP candidate, no woman who was an 8 or above would attack Palin personally, no matter how much they disagreed with her politically...

Also:


59 posted on 01/19/2018 11:09:00 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Albion Wilde
A festival of self-loathing.

Actually, if you read it correctly, the hashtag

#MeToo

really says:

"Pound me too."

It's a cry for attention from ugly, sexually starved women.

With one notable exception:


60 posted on 01/19/2018 11:13:27 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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