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therightfangirl2012-08-27 05:21 pm
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Campaign 2012, or, Let the mudslinging begin (er. continue?)!
I guess most of you guys either don't talk about politics much on your LJs or you have mostly conservatives on your flist. But for those of you who have liberal flisters, have you experienced any provoking comments yet?
I have an flister who I've met in person a few times. She's a really nice girl but a very strong-minded liberal. Despite our very different political views, we get along well and don't really discuss politics. Today she made a post showing off a button a friend gave her that said "Dogs Against Romney" on it. She told us she was voting for Obama, how strongly held her beliefs are, and five reasons that she's a liberal. She said at the end that she's fine with agreeing to disagree. I told her that's what I love about her, that she can at least be respectful of opposing views. But one of her friends (who isn't on my flist) decides to say "If you have a vagina and are voting the Ronney/Ryan ticket, I judge you. I judge you hard."
It's comments like this that annoy me because they seem like they're looking for a fight. I'm sure this person thinks that not everyone on my friend's flist has the same exact beliefs. And I'm sure there are some out there, but none of the conservatives or libertarians on my flist say things like this. It always seems to be the liberals. More than four years ago a former (thank goodness) flister was ranting "I HATE THE ASSHOLES WHO VOTED FOR BUSH!"
99% of my flist are liberals, so I have a filter for political posts that includes like-minded friends. I know it's my LJ and I should be able to say whatever I want, but I don't feel like slinging mud back and forth with people I otherwise get along with. Has anyone else had to deal with such provoking garbage before? Hoping I'm not alone, lol. I have a feeling it's going to get worse as the weeks go by. *sigh*
I have an flister who I've met in person a few times. She's a really nice girl but a very strong-minded liberal. Despite our very different political views, we get along well and don't really discuss politics. Today she made a post showing off a button a friend gave her that said "Dogs Against Romney" on it. She told us she was voting for Obama, how strongly held her beliefs are, and five reasons that she's a liberal. She said at the end that she's fine with agreeing to disagree. I told her that's what I love about her, that she can at least be respectful of opposing views. But one of her friends (who isn't on my flist) decides to say "If you have a vagina and are voting the Ronney/Ryan ticket, I judge you. I judge you hard."
It's comments like this that annoy me because they seem like they're looking for a fight. I'm sure this person thinks that not everyone on my friend's flist has the same exact beliefs. And I'm sure there are some out there, but none of the conservatives or libertarians on my flist say things like this. It always seems to be the liberals. More than four years ago a former (thank goodness) flister was ranting "I HATE THE ASSHOLES WHO VOTED FOR BUSH!"
99% of my flist are liberals, so I have a filter for political posts that includes like-minded friends. I know it's my LJ and I should be able to say whatever I want, but I don't feel like slinging mud back and forth with people I otherwise get along with. Has anyone else had to deal with such provoking garbage before? Hoping I'm not alone, lol. I have a feeling it's going to get worse as the weeks go by. *sigh*
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As someone who was molested as a child and almost raped as a teenager, this shit pisses me off so much.
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It seems as if the left has this ghoulish belief that a man can treat women like absolute shit in his personal life; but it'll ALL be forgiven if he just publicly supports things like abortion and Planned Parenthood funding. It's one of the main reasons I identify as a Conservative.
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Reading the comments section of that article hurt my soul. Seriously. I know it shouldn't have surprised me considering the source. But...damn. :(
I mean, how can they still say that Sandra Fluke is just a helpless "private citizen"? The woman sat in front of CONGRESS to try and force her college to bend to her whims! And she had been an activist (and, apparently, a professional student) for YEARS before that!
It's almost funny how liberal women conflate a man being pro-choice as being "pro-women's rights" and a man being pro-life as being misogynist. In my experience, pretty much EVERY man who is pro-abortion doesn't feel that way because he gives a damn about feminism. He feels that way because abortion gives him a "get out of responsibility free" card should a sexual encounter result in a pregnancy.
I wish more conservatives in the media had the balls to call that kind of bullshit out. The only person that comes to mind who has publicly attacked the left for supporting sexual predators like Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy is Ann Coulter.
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And it's reversed for conservatives. It doesn't matter that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan treat their wives like effin princesses (to quote Mickey Blue Eyes), just that Romney and Ryan don't support abortion.
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Mind you, to them, "rape" doesn't just mean actual, physical rape. Anything that offends them is "rape" in a metaphorical sense. If you say something "wrong", if you offend them, if you disagree with them, then you are "raping" people with your words/eyes/attitudes/whatever.
They trivialize the word and trivialize the issue by over-using it. They toss that word around incessantly.
Don't forget that some of the radical feminists of the '60s/'70s believed that ALL heterosexual sex was rape, and that marriage = rape. Presumably some of them still think this way.
Of course, rape is a terrible thing and I'm not downplaying its importance, but IMO the left and certain types of "feminists" have an excessive level of paranoia about rape.
They're obsessed with it. Feminists see "rape" everywhere, because they despise men and consider men inherently evil and guilty.
Todd Akin's comment about "legitimate" rape was poorly-worded and unfortunate, but it brings up a valid point:
Feminists would like men to be guilty until proven innocent (remember those lacrosse players??), and would like "rape" to mean absolutely anything that a woman wants it to mean.
It's sort of like the Salem witch trials: you're guilty no matter what you do or say.
If a woman has sex and later regrets it, feminists want to call that rape. The really nutty ones also want to call "he looked at me funny" rape...
EDIT: oh, and I'm willing to bet that in online circles, the same people who screech about "rape" against women are the same ones who enjoy reading/writing fanfic about male-on-male rape, pedophilia, sadism, etc, and consider it sexy, fun, entertaining, and cute.
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It's almost like they want women to be slaves to the Democrat party, to be "on the plantation" as they do with blacks. As a woman I actually find that insulting.
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I've heard that one, too.
Honestly, the fact that pretty much EVERYONE on the left not only defended Bill Clinton, but treated HIM like the victim invalidates anything they have to say about feminism, rape culture, reproductive rights, etc. They basically told the whole country that it's OK for a powerful man to sexually abuse helpless women just as long as he graciously allows them to get an abortion afterwards.
No. That is not OK. Either sexual abuse is always wrong or it isn't. The perv's political views shouldn't factor into it.