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I'm Not 'Brave'; You're Just a P---y Some people who love me advised me not to write this essay, and not to use its current title
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Mar 7, 2022 | Dr. Naomi Wolf

Posted on 03/08/2022 7:02:32 AM PST by SJackson

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To: TooBusy

+1


21 posted on 03/08/2022 7:30:45 AM PST by dforest
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To: SJackson

Bkmrk


22 posted on 03/08/2022 7:31:20 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: rlmorel
Most guys know this. You can be called everything from a jackass to an ignoramus, but...being called a pussy is as close to fighting words as you can get.

It probably does not rankle the Gen Z-ers who look like they sleep in their clothes and hang out at Starbucks.

23 posted on 03/08/2022 7:35:06 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: dforest

On this, she has been impressive. I almost think this has really opened her eyes. Big change from her advisor to Al Gore days.


24 posted on 03/08/2022 7:36:31 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: moovova; dforest

I felt the same way. But I guess everyone has their limits...including her.

For example, I never use the “C” word or the “N” word. But those are my own limits.

She likely understood that saying things a certain way allows those people to simply dismiss her and steer the conversation into the word itself instead of the conceptual subject at hand.

I do this on occasion. An example of this is my occasional discussion of the Communist Chinese murders of their own citizens for political reasons.

Now, depending on who you listen to, the range can be a low of 40 million (which even the ChiComs do not dissent on, and only meet it with silence) to up to 120 million (from sources who have an axe to grind with the Communists)

When I discuss it with people, I will often use the low “40 million” number, which is largely uncontested. I do this, because even though I believe the number to be somewhere between 60-80 million, using the 40 million number simply does not allow the other party to sidetrack me on the detail of 40 million versus 60-80 million.

While that is a difference of up to 40 million human souls, individuals murdered...I think I can get the point across I am trying to make with the lower number.


25 posted on 03/08/2022 7:39:59 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: moovova

She probably used the complete word, most likely the magazine editor redacted it….
Point is made either way….


26 posted on 03/08/2022 7:40:11 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Heck, some of them probably embrace it.

Being a “Pussy” is the polar opposite (to them) of “Toxic Masculinity”, and NONE of them want that...:)


27 posted on 03/08/2022 7:41:20 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: Tench_Coxe; dforest

I am all for Leftists who open their eyes.

David Horowitz is one of the best examples of this. He was a hard-core Leftist, a lawyer for the Black Panthers back in the late Sixties-early Seventies.

He was mugged by reality when the Black Panthers brutally murdered a white secretary who was their bookkeeper, because they thought she “knew too much”.

That opened his eyes.


28 posted on 03/08/2022 7:45:00 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: Chuckster

mark for later


29 posted on 03/08/2022 7:45:36 AM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: bagster
It's saxophonist.

Seriesly, that's where I got the screen name from. Bill 'Bad Tone Out of Tune When in Doubt Trill I got a Medal in High School' Clinton.

My teacher in college had a life size cardboard standup of Clinton with his saxophone in his studio.

I once wrote Clinton when he was president, asking if he could help supply a poor working musician with a Selmer Series III tenor. Never got a reply.

30 posted on 03/08/2022 7:45:43 AM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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31 posted on 03/08/2022 7:46:11 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Psalm 68:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.


32 posted on 03/08/2022 7:46:29 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SJackson

Naomi Wolf has got this one right but she’s still an enabling Democrat. Until she renounces the party of the “global reset” she’s on my sh*tlist.


33 posted on 03/08/2022 7:49:23 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: nevergore

But yet daytime television now uses the f word as often as possible now. Thr left sure are hypocritical, with what they censor and condemn


34 posted on 03/08/2022 7:50:56 AM PST by Bob434
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To: rlmorel

I guess you could compare then to smokers who had the fear of a spot on their lung put into them. Once they quit, they are sold on quitting.

They see the light!


35 posted on 03/08/2022 7:54:57 AM PST by dforest
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To: real saxophonist

Hahahahahaha the cheek...:)


36 posted on 03/08/2022 7:55:32 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Your post brought a tear to my eye. God I pray there is repayment. I stood up to stupidity and criminality in my career and the only justice I received is the knowledge that I did the right thing. I'm a nobody. I reported or exposed corruption at numerous jobs and received nothing but retribution.

I do however still have a few more arrows in my quiver. I promise, they are “mostly peaceful”. 😉

37 posted on 03/08/2022 7:56:54 AM PST by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: SJackson

From the comments:

chameleonz11

90% of the population are stupid. Not ignorant, un-educated, not informed etc. They are just plain fucking stupid. Along with that they are so incredibly self absorbed and oblivious to pretty much anything else but their own immediate concerns. You think these people have convictions about ANYTHING?? NOPE. You have to be able to think in a logical fashion to form an opinion that means anything These dolts care more about the crease in their pants than how their kids are being brainwashed. If Michelle Obama all of a sudden became pro life, guess what would happen. Or if Taylor Swift became very a vocal death penalty advocate. OR Rachael Maddow all of a sudden did a 180 and married a man she fell in love with like that fukwit Chirlane McCray?? Every sheeple would just change their stance on the relevant topic and there wouldnt be a second thought given. By the way Naomi, these are the same half assed shit heels that “DM” you. They are stupid. Not pussies. They havent the foggiest idea of what to be afraid of WANT PROOF?? HERE YA GO...... “A French restaurant says it received insults and threats from customers who thought its signature Quebecois dish poutine was named after Putin”


38 posted on 03/08/2022 7:57:03 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: dforest

Changing people’s minds, when they believe a big lie, hard to do. Sometimes reality has to smack them in the face.

I’ve been there in some of the things I believed.


39 posted on 03/08/2022 7:57:22 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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