Texas campus in uproar after protesters hold signs declaring 'women are property' on quad after Trump victory

[Galraedia]

Source: Independent

Hours before Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech, two Christian protestors caused disruption on a Texas university campus with signs that branded women “property” and used homophobic slurs.

The incident at Texas State University at San Marcos united students on both sides of the political aisle in anger as the men paraded around for an hour before being escorted off the property.

Eva De Arment, a 19-year-old sophomore, was in the university’s English building waiting for class to start when she saw Snapchat images of the signs, including one that listed “women” and “slaves” alongside cars as “property.”

Horrified, she rushed to the building’s office, asked for a sharpie, grabbed a flyer on the table and wrote: “There is still love in the world! LOVE THY NEIGHBORS.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-university-trump-women-signs-b2643468.html

[Attilatheblond]

1. Hmmm, how do those clowns feel about the Taliban?

[Hekate]

23. No doubt cheering them on. Taliban in Afghanistan & Talibornagains in Texas

[VMA131Marine]

27. They would be worse than the Taliban if they got the chance

The Taliban are total pikers compared to what these people want to be.

[Karasu]

39. This is why I've always found their Islamophobic shrieking about sharia law...

...to be hilariously pathetic and hypocritical. They hate each other over theological differences, but religious conservatives all end up pushing fundamentally the exact same shit, regardless of the religion in question. That's why the key word is and always has been conservative.

[niyad]

60. Welcome to our DU family.

[Karasu]

64. Thank you very much!

It's good to be here!

[niyad]

65. It is indeed. It has been my home for almost 22 years.

[Freethinker65]

2. Silly. Only women of reproductive age are property in Texas.

[radical noodle]

6. Women who can't reproduce are likely

scheduled for the gulag.

[Freethinker65]

7. Nah. Put em to work caring for the onslaught of unplanned pregnancies.

[radical noodle]

8. I might prefer the gulag...

thanks anyway.

[IronLionZion]

16. Gilead needs "Aunt Lydia" types to beat the younger ones to keep them in line

[Sucha NastyWoman]

33. And those of us past that age

Are merely unpaid childcare workers!

[IronLionZion]

3. "Christian" Taliban

[Jit423]

15. I foresee more and more young women leaving the churches.

Christian nationalism will soon bury Christianity in the dust.

[IronLionZion]

17. I would hope so, but plenty of women voted for Trump and GOP this year

[Algernon Moncrieff]

19. And I know plenty of women in Megachurches

[not fooled]

36. Yeah, men have no monopoly on stupidity

Ignorance and idiocy know no gender.

[hatrack]

52. It's already wiping the dirt from its hands as it walks from the grave . . .

.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. "Official Street Preachers"

The only certification those freaks hold is as bigots and nut jobs.

[charliea]

20. Soapbox standup!

I'm 71 and oh so many years ago on an Indiana college campus, "street preachers" would stand in the middle of the quad and make fire and brimstone rants. They denounced women, education, and atheism. We would stop between classes and get a few minutes of fun poking holes in their diatribes.
I thought it was harmless inanity.

I was wrong...

[not fooled]

37. Sounds like a campaign speech

nowadays. From the reich taliban.

[Lonestarblue]

5. How is it "Christian" to preach that women are nothing more than property to be used by men?

[Ursus Arctos]

9. Tell me again about

how Trump's appeal to these young men is that he speaks to their "economic uncertainty."

[Yavin4]

14. It's the price of eggs, dontcha know. n/t

[Martin68]

10. Last time it was racism the came out of the closet and now it is misogynysm. The fact that students or anybody else

thinks this is something they can and should do is frightening. At least we know exactly who they are now.

[hlthe2b]

11. These attitudes along with the newest meme phrase that states women's bodies belong to men will skyrocket RAPE.

I can only hope locales with MAGATs as their only law enforcement are few and far in between.

[HUAJIAO]

12. Christians my ass

[Babajida]

13. Hmmm, instead of asking for a sharpie

I would have grabbed a couple dozen female friends to surround those asshats and give them taste of what getting owned feels like.

[niyad]

62. Welcome to our DU family.

[moniss]

18. Remember that it was only a couple of decades or so back that

most of the country was cool with the idea, floated by people like this and the rest of the GQP scum, that there is no such thing as marital rape. It wasn't so long ago, I remember it well on TV shows if the subject of rape was discussed when a man would say "just lay back and enjoy it" that there would be smiles and laughter.

[Beck23]

21. I am reading about increased harrassment of girls

By boys in grade school.

[SarcasticSatyr]

22. We need to start showing up at church's to protest . . .

turnabout is very fair play

[FakeNoose]

24. All I can see are a lot guys who are never going to get laid

[SoCalDavidS]

26. Wrong!! There Are PLENTY Of MAGA Women Who Will Be More Than Glad To Go Along

Women at his rallies wore shirts that said, "T Can Grab Me By My Pussy"

[GenThePerservering]

43. Until they do

then they'll be screaming 😱

[4catsmom]

25. Incels with signs

are still incels.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

28. This is trolling, nothing more

- Guys hold up provocative signs.
- Progressives get up in arms.
- Trump bros and gals giggle a lot.

[valleyrogue]

29. I seriously doubt it.

I suppose you think the current meme by the incel/MRA crowd, "your body, my choice," is just a bunch of harmless trolling.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

30. It's designed to provoke and draw a reaction

They thrive on the reaction.

[niyad]

32. Be sure and tell that to their victims. Look up andrew tate.

[valleyrogue]

57. The most terrifying thing about Andrew Tate

is his following among male children, elementary school kids. Where the F*** are their parents?

[niyad]

59. I have no idea. And how in the F'N HELL are chiildren that age able to

access him?

[valleyrogue]

61. Apparently, they are. n/t

[valleyrogue]

56. You really are clueless about the MRAs/incels. They mean it.

These guys are allegedly Christians, and I seriously doubt they are being "humorous" or "satirical" or "trying to get a rise out of people."

You must be a man.

[GenThePerservering]

44. This exactly nt

[niyad]

31. WHY IN THE FUCKING HELL were they allowed to parade around for an hour?

[tornado34jh]

34. Couldn't women start arming themselves to fight off potential rapists, or at least learn self-defense?

Yes, it sounds radical, but again, this upcoming government won't help them, since they believe in male supremacy. With this government, shelters for abused women might very well be next to get cut.

[GenThePerservering]

45. I don't see how learning self defense

is at all radical, nor carrying. IMHO, self defense should be fundamental in any girls education.

Carrying would be a step further and up to the individual.

[tornado34jh]

55. Well, there are a lot of people who think women shouldn't defend themselves because they go against gender roles

I would not put it past these theocratic bastards that a women defending herself against a rapist, including fatally, won't be seen as a threat to male supremacy. They will see it as a misandrist attack.

[valleyrogue]

58. The thing is, it isn't reality.

Arming yourself doesn't work and neither do "self defense classes" because if a dude comes from behind you and overpowers you, a gun isn't going to do fuck all. The man will simply grab it from you and use it or a knife or whatever against you. Men are way stronger than women on average.

The best way, the only real way, for women to be safe is to never date, live with, or marry men. "Stranger danger" is overblown by comparison.

Besides, it is not our job to "control" or "fix" men. The blame and responsibility falls clearly on them.

[tornado34jh]

63. When have I not said that men have to take responsibility for their actions? For the record, I am a man

But I am well aware and have seen what happens when it gets out of hand. I knew a co-worker back when I worked at a Walgreens in Virginia whose boyfriend was into drugs and all that. I never knew the person or have seen him, but I could tell he was not good for her since she would come to work and not in a good state. Luckily, she severed the connection and she is in a much better place. That same coworker had another man who was stalking her and actually broke a window at the store. My cousin, when she first married, had a husband who was very controlling, not just with money, but where she went. Not that long ago in Lakeland, when I was on the bus heading back home, there was evidently what was a toxic relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend where I could tell the boyfriend was at least emotionally abusing her. I will never know what happened after they got off the bus. So I am very well aware of bad men. In fact, I am quite harshly critical of them.

[NickB79]

50. Yesterday I took out my handgun, fired 50 rounds in the backyard, and showed it to my 14 yr old daughter

I told her later this week, she's going to learn to shoot it with me, whether she likes handguns or not (she prefers shotguns). She understood exactly what I meant, and there were no complaints.

She's a 3rd degree black belt in Taekwondo as well, currently working towards 4th degree.

She's also been asking me for an engraved pocket knife, because her Girl Scout Troop offers them. I'll be buying her one of them now.

There's nothing radical about women using lethal force to defend themselves.

[tornado34jh]

54. Nice. What I mean by radical is going against what the right-wing perception of women is

They don't want women to be independent, to them, a women fighting back is radical to them. What I feel is going to happen is if a women kills a rapist, even though I think she has every right to fight back, they will see that as a threat to their system and will make an example for those who defy their beliefs. But I believe that the will to survive and fight back is very strong, especially if she has daughters. I am saying that if, as we are seeing, they want to criminalize women who go out of state to receive abortion that is life-saving, I don't see how she wouldn't be compelled to start having to defend herself when others won't. They don't want men to take responsibility for their actions. It's not unique to the US, it happens in many places around the world.

[Pototan]

35. Supporters of Sharia Law

that's the way it appears to me.

[Beacool]

38. Meh, just incels proving that their brain is as tiny as their dick.

Their "girlfriend" is probably their right hand.

[johnnyfins]

42. Wait til their gods outlaw porn

[sheshe2]

40. I posted about this the other day.

It sunk like a rock.

Good to see yours is gaining support.

TY

[Old Crank]

41. They are working hard

At trying to convince me that Christianity is a hate group.

I know Some Christians that find this to be appalling but it seems like the mainstream leaders are fine with this.

[58Sunliner]

46. Younger women everywhere in the US better take self-defense courses, and if comfortable, start carrying weapons.

At least mace/pepper spray. This is sick.

[Attilatheblond]

49. Mace, schmace. Carry loppers

[RandySF]

47. If only groceries were cheaper.

[Timeflyer]

48. Not a surprise. They're just proudly saying exactly what the election results revealed--

the misogyny in US runs deep, always ready to erupt. Women know it in their bones, good men don't want to believe it's as bad as it is, but it has to be acknowledged.

[hatrack]

51. Yeah, "LOVE THY NEIGHBORS" is going to be powerfully persuasive!!!!

I mean, nice try but JFC, get a clue.

[Fullduplexxx]

53. Congrats people the incels now feel elevated, emboldened.