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History of Feminism

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mercuryblues

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Fri May 30, 2014, 08:28 AM May 2014

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When Giffords was shot and 6 others murdered; no one had any qualms about how the right wing teabaggers fed into Laughner's delusions. Particularly Palins don't retreat, reload post with Gifford's name in cross hairs. Her opponent in the election had a fundrasier with this ad:

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November help remove
Gabrielle Giffords from
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automatic M16 with Jesse
Kelly

Combined with his rightwing rantings and the culture that surrounded him and his mental illness there is no doubt what led to this tragedy.

Onto
Jim Adkisson, who shot up an Unitarian Universalist Church, killing 2 and wounding 7. His hatred of Liberals combined with his rightwing views were his stated motivation. His reading list consisted of "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, "100 People Who are Screwing up America" by Bernard Goldberg; and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

No one denied that combined with his mental illness combined with the culture he chose to surround himself with, led to this tragedy.

So why is it when a shooter kills women, leaves ample rantings to verify that his hatred of women motivated his actions; is it any reason but? He killed men, yes he did because they would get in the way of his plans and they were getting the sex from women that he thought he was owed. The culture that he surrounded himself with, must not be questioned. If it is, it is to be derided as insignificant. It must be catagorized as "political" motivation to advance a "certain agenda" Other motives are assigned..off his meds, women are biologically disposed to seek out the "bad boys" because of ovaries or something, (this is not only repugnant but stupid because if you believe this, the killer was the ultimate "bad boy" and therefore women should have been throwing themselves at him.) But, but, he was a racist - yes he was also that. He thought other races were beneath him, yet they were getting the sex he though he was owed. Just like the example above there was a subset of grievances by the killers. Never was the root cause ignored in favor of a minor subset like he was denied an amusement park ride when younger because he was not tall enough.

Just stop it. He hated women straight up and that was his main motivation for killing. He sought out groups and yes, most likely movies that validated his views, just like the men in the examples above. He left reems of proof that his hatred and warped views about women were the root cause that motivated his rampage. I guess that is to be ignored in favor of the other, smaller things he was offended by.

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riddle me this [View all] mercuryblues May 2014 OP
i think the trouble with all this is that sexism is personal. mopinko May 2014 #1
its the only form of oppression where the victims sleep with the oppressors. seabeyond May 2014 #9
gloria saved my life. mopinko May 2014 #12
ya. but. we are that good and the youngers are that much better and smarter. fuckin a blast. seabeyond May 2014 #14
Chris Hayes pointed this out too. redqueen May 2014 #2
and you know. it is not like we can stop talking about it. cause it is killing our girls. and seabeyond May 2014 #10
I've been saying the backlash will get worse before things get better. redqueen May 2014 #16
i do too. i really do. i see it with your kids... nt seabeyond May 2014 #17
I don't know ismnotwasm May 2014 #3
again. a week or less. when??? later. even that is going nowhere anymore. you know why? seabeyond May 2014 #11
Who is actually claiming that hatred of women was not the primary cause of his rampage? Flatulo May 2014 #4
read it and weep mercuryblues May 2014 #5
I would actually go so far as to suggest that he was indeed Flatulo May 2014 #6
just to clarify mercuryblues May 2014 #7
I understand. He had quite a few broken parts that came together in a perfect storm, but hatred Flatulo May 2014 #15
this is not a du issue. people claiming this was nationwide. and nationwide attacked that seabeyond May 2014 #13
you know what mercury. a week later and it has reached my two older teen boys, seabeyond May 2014 #8
I hear ya mercuryblues Jun 2014 #18
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