History of Feminism

CTyankee

(63,912 posts) Fri Feb 14, 2014, 10:41 AM Feb 2014

Um, did you see this in GD? [View all]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024498713#post6

Isn't this Lounge material?

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Um, did you see this in GD? [View all] CTyankee Feb 2014 OP

Unfortunately, Kelvin Mace Feb 2014 #1

Nice description Warpy Feb 2014 #28

"Culturally relevant"? To knuckle-dragging throwbacks, I guess. redqueen Feb 2014 #47

The question of standards, Kelvin Mace Feb 2014 #116

Seriously. nt cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #2

and i was gonna jump in to ask.... OMG, is this where the really cool women hang out seabeyond Feb 2014 #3

back to my loud music and enjoy a day with windows open.... breeze flowing.... seabeyond Feb 2014 #4

Oh goodness! Tumbulu Feb 2014 #5

Clearly it belongs in the "Sports" group. MadrasT Feb 2014 #6

The purpose of that and the blow job thread BainsBane Feb 2014 #7

you are so smart. right on. and this needs desperately to be an OP. seabeyond Feb 2014 #9

Yep. They are just marking territory. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #14

people were getting along too much. be respectful. appreciating. that is all. backlash to seabeyond Feb 2014 #15

This: CrispyQ Feb 2014 #16

You've been doing a fine damn job of taking words out of my mouth of late! Scootaloo Feb 2014 #29

Blow job thread? cui bono Feb 2014 #54

Adding one more voice to say "beautifully stated." Squinch Feb 2014 #57

You make an important point here YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #113

+100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #112

It's bait. n/t seaglass Feb 2014 #8

It is. And posted by the same cast of characters sufrommich Feb 2014 #10

Well at least they're admitting they aren't feminists, so there's that. n/t seaglass Feb 2014 #11

haha. as if we didn't already know. sheesh. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #37

My thoughts, exactly. UtahLib Feb 2014 #12

Wow, at 100+ posts, by now it's like a pissing contest to mark GD as "anti-feminist" territory. MadrasT Feb 2014 #13

Isn't it lovely BainsBane Feb 2014 #17

Baines. You are on fire tonight. Have you ever Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #18

LOL. Not a good fit BainsBane Feb 2014 #20

I understand, totally. The public's loss. Ever considered Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #21

Yes, actually I have thought of that BainsBane Feb 2014 #22

I think you would be excellent at it. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #23

Well, then at least make this an OP, would ya??? Squinch Feb 2014 #58

Indeed. MadrasT Feb 2014 #59

Bain,you are a treasure. sufrommich Feb 2014 #60

Exactly and well said. ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #137

CTyankee with all due respect Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #19

You know, you have a point there...rereading it, I can see it... CTyankee Feb 2014 #30

thank you CTyankee. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #32

that became clear to me after my initial response...I went out and started thinking about it CTyankee Feb 2014 #33

This has been going on since the inception of DU3. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #34

why was DU3 such a signal event? CTyankee Feb 2014 #36

Self Moderating ... was the catalyst ... the culmination of society's degradation along with Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #38

and I am Marie of Romania...like dorothy parker once wrote... CTyankee Feb 2014 #40

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #42

About intentions... redqueen Feb 2014 #49

you know what they say ... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #72

I'm gonna guess... redqueen Feb 2014 #75

yep. Rock On. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #77

Yep, the MRA talking points are flying fast and freely in that thread. redqueen Feb 2014 #48

I don't doubt it, redqueen - Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #61

Just found out that one of the women who claimed she didn't know she was spewing MRA talking points redqueen Feb 2014 #73

haha ... nuance and subtlety ... some are better at it than others ... one more time: Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #76

well, that would be interesting seeing how she caught the naked girls to put up the op for all the seabeyond Feb 2014 #80

well, you know sometimes Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #84

i am a pacifist and have never hung out with hunters, so i am totally clueless what you are talking seabeyond Feb 2014 #87

Doesn't matter. Intellectual honesty isn't something certain types care anything about. redqueen Feb 2014 #82

That was one of the most epic misrepresentations in the history of misrepresentation. MadrasT Feb 2014 #86

It's just faux-nooz style dishonesty. And when it's used to demonize the feminists here who dare redqueen Feb 2014 #93

--- Bro-approved feminism is the only welcome kind. --- Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #88

Ha but if you're still one of the few feminists desperately clinging to that 'sex positive' bullshit redqueen Feb 2014 #95

thing is, redqueen Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #96

of course sex positive was meant as an insult to other women.... that is the whole purpose and how seabeyond Feb 2014 #98

Just about everyone has. Sex is fun for the vast majority of people. But that movement stopped being redqueen Feb 2014 #99

as a movement, they have been left behind and need to catch up Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #101

biggest couple decade fail, except the recognition and acknowledgement of diversity. seabeyond Feb 2014 #100

And this is one of the reasons tumblr is amazing. On DU there is little participation from WOC. redqueen Feb 2014 #102

interesting. i am gonna have to get on tumblr. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #103

We really do need a womanist presence here on DU. cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #119

hey, a thread where someone died, the boys giggln and playing with milf. i got a post hid for sayin seabeyond Feb 2014 #91

some of my hides ... just blew my mind ... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #94

yup. a fuckin game with men having a huge advantage on the courts. any other game and they would seabeyond Feb 2014 #97

On a more positive note... redqueen Feb 2014 #74

Loving It !!! Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #78

yes it is. and htat would be about the point the poster of the OP cries out... it has been posted seabeyond Feb 2014 #81

Yeah, that's super double plus good logic redqueen Feb 2014 #85

the women on the cover and who do similar things do it for the money JI7 Feb 2014 #24

that is the problem, the lack of respect all the way around. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #26

You know -- Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #25

no, not really Kali Feb 2014 #27

thank you, Kali ... I trashed the thread early this morning, first thing. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #31

it is clear to me now that the motivation for posting this is marking territory and CTyankee Feb 2014 #35

Please, take note that the thread was started by a woman. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #39

IF it is a woman...remember, I am Marie of Romania... CTyankee Feb 2014 #41

Point taken - but, this one has posted pictures and, iirc has been to DU meet ups. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #43

heh, history has shown that those women opposing women's suffrage have been largely FORGOTTEN... CTyankee Feb 2014 #44

hehe ... and on that note ... I simply must say ... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #45

me, too...have a nice rest... CTyankee Feb 2014 #46

Really? Not a single one of those names surprises me. At all. redqueen Feb 2014 #50

I see two I know to be skin-waste bigots. Scootaloo Feb 2014 #51

It wouldn't matter BainsBane Feb 2014 #52

The GD hosts let it stand BainsBane Feb 2014 #53

i think it was a little bit to get some hidden posts and a little bit of people getting along too seabeyond Feb 2014 #67

up to Eighteen now ... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #69

I suspect many of those 18 recs are basically a virtual middle finger flipping off this group. MadrasT Feb 2014 #70

love it when they throw a tantrum ... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #71

the whole Op, rec and many of the posts is all about flipping us off, yes. lol. duh.... seabeyond Feb 2014 #83

adding two more ;;; Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #104

nobody really cares that much. we already know who they are... shhhhh seabeyond Feb 2014 #105

well, sea Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #107

add one more Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #136

Reading those names makes the intention crystal-clear YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #114

Not even in the lounge please. cui bono Feb 2014 #55

so TIRED of our new and improved LockerRoom Lounge Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #111

Lordy... 600+ posts now MadrasT Feb 2014 #56

This. If women making choices regardless of sufrommich Feb 2014 #62

virtual locker room, complete with congratulatory backslapping and high fiving...simpering cheerlea seabeyond Feb 2014 #65

again, hypocrisy, i have a huge problem. each of these posters are all over the coulters, palns, seabeyond Feb 2014 #66

Yes, that "I choose my choice" dubmassery is fucking laughable. redqueen Feb 2014 #79

A women can make many choices that goes against feminism cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #106

I was tempted to spam the thread with Hawkeye Initiative cover mock-ups. KitSileya Feb 2014 #63

Nor mine when I signed up in fall, 2004! CTyankee Feb 2014 #64

i often wonder, what would happen if your husband was so invested in his porn life? the man you love seabeyond Feb 2014 #68

Very well stated. Succinct and accurate. redqueen Feb 2014 #89

exactly. clear and obvious. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #92

This would be the New and Improved Model = DU3 Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #90

It also reminds me of the post where men where asked cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #108

interesting angle there, cinnabonbon Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #117

My problem is that I read posts like that as if cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #120

i had the host of the mens group specifically tell me that Op was to get back at a small vocal group seabeyond Feb 2014 #121

At least they admit it. cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #122

that whole thread, half was them denying it is a fuckin game for them. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #123

Wow, how embarrassing. cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #124

But seriously cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #125

To "get back at" a group on DU? MadrasT Feb 2014 #126

What we keep doing is calling out objectification. redqueen Feb 2014 #128

how abotu that. makes us bullies. someone says... "she'll do". like a thing he owns. seabeyond Feb 2014 #133

Well when you criticize objectification, and male entitlement to female bodies, redqueen Feb 2014 #134

I love this post: redqueen Feb 2014 #109

yup. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #110

Horrible YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #115

Freedom of speech apparently cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #118

If THAT! elleng Feb 2014 #127

I'm glad to hear it. I've been cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #129

We don't! elleng Feb 2014 #130

Yay! I will! cinnabonbon Feb 2014 #131

Good! elleng Feb 2014 #132

You'd have to have a pea size Texasgal Feb 2014 #135