Women and the Disrespect that Starts Within Ones Own Home

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5. and HRC is using batterers' tactics to win this election and will govern that way

I'm a lifelong radical feminist and I agree with much of what you say up until you talk about this candidate.

There is nothing that disgusts me more than narcissistic women who hijack the fight against patriarchy--the suffering of millions of battered women, of sexually abused women, of impoverished women who cannot leave exhausting situations who are working multiple jobs and caretaking children and elders--for their own aims. I've personally experienced these women in the academy and non-profits and I think the visceral repugnance of many feminists against Hillary is due to this kind of experience.

The tactics of HRC, Debbie, and the whole Clintonian establishment are those of abusers. I'm seeing it here on DU. It is enraging.

Ever since I got involved in the anti-pornography movement in the late 80s I've come to see how some liberal women get all sorts of credibility for being pseudo-feminists while leaving poor women behind to, among other things, be sexually used in prostitution, trafficking, and the making of violent pornography. Careerist feminists entered the academy and other high-end jobs and don't seem to give a shit, or have any comprehension of, the life of destitute women, particularly minorities. To them feminism is about "leaning in" and breaking the glass ceiling to get salaries that are 100 times more than most women will ever make. It's a shallow, Cathy-cartoonish level understanding of sexism that leaves the deep daily suffering of millions of women untouched and unarticulated.

I've seen feminism in the academy get co-opted to the point of utter ridiculousness where it has nothing to do with real women's lives and suffering and just pointless chatter about cyber-this and identity-that.

Clinton is PART OF THE PROBLEM. Her and her husband's welfare policies made it more difficult for women to leave abusive situations and control their own reproductive health. Their war policies have brought misery to millions of women overseas (and some here, with PTSD among soldiers).

For her to claim that her election, while her campaign acts like an abusive husband, has anything to do with elevating women SICKENS me.