Posted on 05/01/2020 8:19:35 AM PDT by SJackson
I'm impressed with Alyssa Milano. This is the kind of convoluted series of rationalizations you would expect from a career Washington Post columnist, not a former sitcom actress who became famous for tweeting a hashtag.
The fallacies are obvious.
In defending her support for Biden, she keeps using women as a collective group. As if she and her decisions represent all women. There are the strawmen and the false choices, accompanied by a distortion of history.
As an activist, it can be very easy to develop a black and white view of the world: things are clearly wrong or clearly right. Harvey Weinstein’s decades of rape were clearly wrong. Donald Trump’s alleged sexual assaults were clearly wrong. Brett Kavanaugh’s actions... were clearly wrong... Except it’s not always so easy, and living in the gray areas is something we’re trying to figure out in the world of social media. But here’s something social media doesn’t afford us–nuance... The world is gray. And as uncomfortable as that makes people, gray is where the real change happens.
Clearly.
Grown ups, you see, understand that you have to have gray areas because you're trying to make change happen and elect Democrats..
Now we pivot to "I'm a victim because I'm not allowed to live in the gray and shrug at sexual assaults to elect Democrats"
Women are not afforded the gray. We are not allowed anything but the binary extremes. And then, we are pressured to turn on one another for making impossible choices. It’s bullshit.
It’s not up to women to admonish or absolve perpetrators, or be regarded as complicit when we don’t denounce them. Nothing makes this clearer than the women who are still supporting Joe Biden even with these accusations. Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Amy Klobuchar, Nancy Pelosi, and Elizabeth Warren have all endorsed Biden and like me, continue to support him. Because it’s an impossible choice.
It falls upon women to navigate within the system of men’s design to make pragmatic choices that we hope will lead us to a more equal future. I still support Joe Biden because I believe that’s the best choice for that future, and again it is not up to women to absolve perpetrators.
Milano would like the moral authority to condemn men, but rejects that this morality authority comes with any expectation of consistency. She wants to inhabit the gray where she's not expected to maintain any standards and can selectively weaponize the following she built up to go after Trump or Kavanaugh.
That's the same old political cynicism dressed up in victimhood.
And so we're right back to, it's okay if Bill Clinton raped women, as long as he defends abortion. That's not advocacy for women.
Means it’s OK to assault women if you are a Democrat?
Hypocrisy. Annoying hypocrisy. These people were willing to destroy Kavanaugh (and his family), while claiming all along that women ought to be always believed, but now it is ‘different.’
No, continued support for Biden only shows the depth of pathological hatred for Trump.
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Why else would millions of people spend hundreds of millions of dollars supporting a senile, has been, worn out, boring, old pervert like Joe?
Sounds that way to me.
#MeToo, unless it’s politically inconvenient.
F’n hupocrite Democrats.
Daniel, she isn’t famous for a hashtag.
#MeToo was always about getting Trump.
Principals of The Democrat Party and their Members
1. Lying
2. Cheating
3. Greed
4. Hypocrisy
5. Power Lust
6. Projection
7. Degradation of Women
But remember, without these principles they wouldn’t have any.
Same as it ever was.
Orwell called it “doublethink” in his Novel 1984.
Didn’t some infamous woman in the “crazy movement” once say she’d give Bill Clinton a bj herself if he keeps abortion legal, in reference to him abusing Monica Lewinski, an 18-year-old intern?
RATs don't have standards or principles, just interests. Their main interest is power. They are opportunistic.
Or as someone else put it: to a RAT, the ends justify the means.
We believe women...should shut up where RATs are concerned.
“ This Week in Media Bias History: Give Bill Clinton Oral Sex for Keeping Abortion Legal
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By Scott Whitlock | July 21, 2018 12:15 PM EDT
Some quotes need no introduction because they are just so insane. On July 20, 1998, Time contributor Nina Burleigh said this of Bill Clinton: “I would be happy to give him a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.” Wow. How does that quote look after the Me Too revolution? ”
Yeah, her name was Nina Burleigh and she wrote for Newsweek back in the day. I don't know what massage parlor she works in now.
I wonder how many men she Burleighed.
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