Sexism has never been limited to the Right in American politics...

[YoungDemCA]

There was also resistance to women's equal participation, which drove some women away from the group. According to Jacqui Ceballos, "Women at a 1965 SDS conference (were) put down with "She just needs a good screw"; the following year SDS women (were) pelted with tomatoes when they demand(ed) a plank on women's liberation."

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Also in 1968, an SDS organizer at the University of Washington told a meeting about white college men working with poor white men, and "[h]e noted that sometimes after analyzing societal ills, the men shared leisure time by 'balling a chick together.' He pointed out that such activities did much to enhance the political consciousness of poor white youth. A woman in the audience asked, 'And what did it do for the consciousness of the chick?'" (Hole, Judith, and Ellen Levine, Rebirth of Feminism, 1971, pg. 120).[22] After the meeting, a handful of women formed Seattle's first women's liberation group.

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Also in 1969, the New Left was present at a Counter-Inaugural to Richard Nixon’s first inauguration, at which the antiwar leader Dave Dellinger, serving as master of ceremonies, incorrectly announced, “The women have asked all the men to leave the stage.” [26] After that, SDS activist Marilyn Salzman Webb attempted to speak about women's oppression, and SDS men heckled her, shouting, "Take her off the stage and f--k her!" and so forth until she was drowned out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society

[seabeyond]

1. a mans issue. not a party issue. take her out for the vote, then reduce her to a fuck or shove her

into a little room away from everyone else.

[Freddie]

2. Many hippie men

Treated their women like servants with sex duties. The whole "peace, love and brotherhood" thing didn't extent to women for a long time. Like Ira Einhorn, the Philly hippie guru who murdered his girlfriend when she dared to try to leave him and got away with it for many years.

[geek tragedy]

3. The idea that there is a comprehensive 'progressive' ideology is a fairly

modern notion. Economics and gender and race all overlap to a limited degree, at least ostensibly. A Franciscan can be great on issues of peace and economic justice, but horrible on gender.

Huey Long was far more 'liberal' in his economics than most modern US presidents, but he was also a virulent white supremacist.

etc etc

[seabeyond]

5. and the obvious. MLK was horribly deaf on women and women issues. nt

[ismnotwasm]

4. No it hasn't

I missed out on all the "free love" stuff of the '60's-- being too young, but the concept essentially backfired. Men remained studs and women remain sluts. This is true to this day; women who try to scale that mountain rarely reach the top as individuals, much less as a gender.