Did the Gender Wars start when the Hilary Hopefuls came back

MRAers.

the name of this website is DEMOCRATIC Underground. For that reason alone there should be ZERO MRAers.

otoh- the website owners apparently don't care that they are here thus making the name of this place a big joke.

just as when folks around here found out many black men didn't support gay rights

I see frequent accusations about this apparently all-powerful "MRA" that I had never before heard about, and now I'm being told DU is full of them. Or, perchance, to you mean people who don't automatically fall in line with the radical feminist ultras? Are all those people who failed to get sufficiently upset with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue MRAers?

Guess I'm just not part of the 'in' crowd. *sob*

Some evil group that hof discovered on on the internet and decided DU was infested with. It pretty much works like the 'paid troll' accusation. If one really pisses someone off, they're an mra paid troll.

What about the 45 DUers who are banned from there, are they all MRAs too?

They must be on somebody's payroll, getting paid a few cents for every time they post that particular anagram...

Next up: " I'm just asking a question".

Some people can't take it that she's actually popular.

... are more OPs such as this one.

when Obama won the Primary? Who said they all left?

I was for Hillary Clinton BEFORE Pres. Obama BECAUSE I knew then what I still know now...she IS to the left of him and MORE Liberal than he is (a Moderate Liberal). When Obama won the Primary...I supported him.

But for now I support Hillary again...for the same reason.

Last I heard she wasn't

This is one of the ugliest things I have heard on DU.

participated in any of those threads, but am a Hillary supporter.
Your post is nonsense

Tons of newcomers devoted to Hilary claiming they would vote republican if Hilary lost

I was a moderator as well.
It was a handful. The so-called gender wars have zero to do with Hillary ( spelled correctly) or people who support her.
In fact, I bet if I go look at the signature lines there will be a bunch who support other candidates.

because that is pretty offensive

Good for you.

might be a DU record even

So much for your assumptions

of a perfectly good feminist call out thread.

You didn't actually read that thread did you?

of newcomers claiming they would vote republican. That's a lie. The vast,vast majority of Hilary supporters supported Obama once the primaries were over. The meme that there were ever vast numbers of PUMAs out there was the creation of Rush Limbaugh,sad to see it encouraged here.

I've been here since 2001 as well. I was not a Hillary supporter in 2008, and am not particularly so now. (Though I will most certainly vote for her if she's the candidate.)

The so-called gender wars are here because there have been a lot of issues of sexism that have come up. Or perhaps they started when all the macho libertarian male types came? (Right back at ya.)

The insulting OP is a good example why feminists need to stand up on left web sites. Let's remember that feminism came of age in response to the truly odious sexist behavior of male power power players on the radical left in the 60s. That's a fact, and a sad one.

biggest group of whiny pissants ever to infect a blogsphere.

Zactly.



between them and the gunner shitheads (noting the massive overlap, too), I don't know which is the bigger pack of cowardly douchebags.

I have noticed that many folks here who lean libertarian tend to be very sexist as well.

They're so obvious.

Whiny pissants indeed!

cock

No, it has nothing to do with Hillary, but nice transparent try.

Your friend,
FSogol.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1259995#post1

Sometimes I rec a thread because I know it will be controversial. I would unrec those.

got unrecs, they often flew off the handle. That's why they got rid of the unrec.

I wish it was back since, I'd rather unrec the trainwrecks and move on, rather than dignify them with snarky responses and facepalms.

them. People with tens of thousands of posts being silenced. We see that same complaint about hidden posts now. People with tens of thousands of posts being silenced.

Do you think you can avoid making sexist comments about her and deal with the issues at hand?

It's darling how much of the context you miss. You could just ask.

Would a plea to knock it off be of any use?

I thought not.

trashing this thread now too.

Ick

of women.

Have you been living under a large rock until recently?

I am not a Hillary fan. But I'm a woman and a proud, avowed feminist. I have been angry much of my 65 years at how women have been treated. My support, or lack of support, for Hillary is a completely separate issue.

The Hillary hopefuls? Oh, you mean the vast majority of the Democratic party.

This post is divisive and offensive. Sexism has been around here ever since I joined and probably way before that day. As for Hillary, yes she was the subject of sexism, but what does that have to do with the current wave of sexist posts on DU?

I voted for Hilary in the primaries and Obama in the general, no problem.

The so-called "gender wars" started, as far as I can tell, because the left still has problems with sexism. See Ed Shultz calling a female right-wing radio host a slut, that horrible cartoon of Ann Coulter being raped by the democratic donkey, and even some posts here, like the one were someone said that almost all young women will cheat on their b.f.s/husbands if they are given
the right opportunity.

When it comes to Hilary, I think what we have to look forward to is people who just cannot stand her throwing everything they've got her way, and a lot of sexism from all sides, including the left. I'm not even a huge supporter of hers, but some of the anti-Hilary crap, just like some of the anti-Obama crap (and please notice I said *some*) just comes across as a bit unhinged.

But I'm not gonna let that hold me back. I've chosen to stop worrying about what some sexist idiot says, either online or IRL. The only thing I can do is speak out against it and try to have a calm and rational debate, or if they chose to be unreasonable, just forget about them and move on. And sometimes, just sometimes, I've gotten other women AND men to change their views. Now most of them are friends and they're liberal/feminist/pro-choice.