You’re wrong.
You don’t think other people OWE you anything (in this case, sex). So you don’t force them to give it to you.
That’s pretty much what it boils down to.
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Because we just witnessed a more-than-credible woman candidate for the Presidency get torpedoed by decades of targeted sexism, including the fact that somehow she’s the one who must be punished for the sexual harassment/abuse/etc. her husband committed against other women.
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She torpedoed herself, but the decades of sexism didn’t help. There were still people talking about Monica Lewinsky in 2016, and Hillary had nothing to do with that!
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Patriarchy in the literal sense:
What if the person trying to take your daughter away was your own father and the one trying to take your granddaughter was your own son? And what if one of them had a badge and a gun? It’s a case of how Georgia’s new “Grandparents Right Law” has torn one family apart.
http://13wmaz.com/news/grandfathers-rights-can-your-own-parent-take-your-child/493717823
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My work firewall will not let me view that… but I can guess whats going on. /shudder
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I don’t know why but I cannot view that link due to https not being available at my location. Or is it an http only link?
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I had the same thing. The address says https, but I guess it really isn’t.
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Act 1 in the recent This American Life was well worth a listen:
Kind of shocked at how deaf he is to the stats she quotes to him, and wonder if an environment which better promoted women’s voices would better let him see how nonsensical his self-justification was.
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The ghetto boys are catcalling me
As I pull my keys from my pocket
I wonder if this method of courtship
Has ever been effective
Has any girl in history said
Sure, you seem so nice, let’s get it on
Still, I always shock them when I answer
Hi my name’s Amanda
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I guess this is OK because it was consensual. But . . . barf.
I’ve been doing a lot of barfing in recent weeks. Months. Well, a year, more or less.
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Democrats were not planning to aggressively contest Mr. Barton’s conservative-leaning seat: His best-funded Democratic challenger, Jana Lynne Sanchez, had only $16,440 on hand as of the start of October.
Ugh, why??? I know there’s tactics to these things, but if you don’t contest huge regions of the country how are you supposed to give people even the opportunity to change their politics?
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I am pretty sure that the party can afford more than that.
If a party wants to win and change things, they must commit to it. Even the seats you don’t think you can win. Otherwise you’re just telling people that you’re willing to write them off, and then is it any wonder when they won’t vote for you because you “don’t care about us?”
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I’m sorry, I have already broken my personal pledge not to comment any more on US politics. Must try harder in future.
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Yeah weird. Sorry I guess. I just copied the link from RawStory.
It works for me now but it worked for me before so 
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Putting this here and not the molesters outed thread, because this is truth from a woman, talking about why women do what we have to:
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Everyone just looks away.
This is what jumped out the most to me in this article. It’s a common refrain, and it cuts across class lines, across racial lines, it hits all ages…
And it doesn’t matter what kind of abuse it is, this is the reason the abusers get away with it. Not because “nobody knew”. Lots of people know, all the time.
But everyone looks away.
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I’ve thought about this a lot. My suspicion is that it’s because what the perpetrators do is so embarrassing, so shameful. They think it makes them powerful and attractive, but it just makes them pathetic.
But because they’re too clueless to realise how pathetic they are, they keep going. And keep victimising.
It’s like this 15 year old kid I once taught who loaded a RAT on the school network and took over classmates’ screens during class. When I caught him and told him it was wrong, he said, “but I can do it”.
“But it’s wrong.”
“But I can do it.”
This wasn’t exactly my finest moment in teaching. I told him, “well, I could drop my pants and take a dump on the floor right now, but I’m not going to.”
I think that’s what it’s really going to take. Getting a blow job in public, masturbating in front of someone without their explicit, enthusiastic consent, and all the rest – it won’t go away until these dudes realise it’s like taking a dump in the middle of a crowded room.
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That was really really good!
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A friend of mine works at the CBC as a producer.
She pointed out that all the successful journalists are either married men, or divorced/single women.
There was no middle ground. Either they were men with a wife a home running things and raising kids, or they were single women.
Seriously men, do better.
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