Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I’m glad the women had fun marching, nice weather for it. But I remain unclear on what it’s all about or why I should care.
Votes for women? Already have them but don’t bother to use them, which is why Trump won.
Equality? So, what, end affirmative action for women in education and employment? I’m okay with that.
Abortion on demand, no-fault divorce, presumption of custody, mandatory child support, homosexual marriage, vigorous prosecution of sexual assault and domestic abuse . . . already have all that.
Look, I’m all in favor of ending oppression but you’ve got to give me a hint, here. How, exactly, are American women oppressed and what, specifically, must be done to end it? Mansplain it to me, please. I seriously want to know: what do women want?
Joe Doakes
My hunch – and it’s just a hunch? It’s the Democrat party trying to whip up support / hysteria as a hedge against complete electoral catastrophe in 2018, and beyond that to gin up support for a field likely to be led by another geriatric white ultraliberal in 2020.
Gender is not a voting bloc. You might as well try and form a Party of Tall People.
Few of us believe that men are a predictable and consistent political constituency. Some are conservative and some are not. Some are working class and others are not. The same applies to women — that they are cleft instead of combed does not give them anything else in common.
If they’re complaining about conditions here in the U.S., did they ever stop and think who’s been president for the last 8 years?
Geriatric White Ultraliberal = GWU.
Geriatric White Ultra Liberal = GWUL.
Which is a better acronym?
“Which is a better acronym?”
I prefer GWU.