The priss police gets its claws into Bernie Sanders. He’s a rapist (or “rapey”, whatever that’s supposed to mean), he’s almost a pedophile, yes, he fought for reproductive rights his entire life but he wasn’t intersectional enough in the process, that vicious evildoer.
I don’t even know anybody in American politics who’s been as vocal, direct, and consistent for quite as long in defending reproductive rights as Sanders. I’m sure he deserves criticism, everybody does, but calling the fellow “rapey” (and may everybody who uses this monstrosity of a word choke on it) is every shade of insane.
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Priss Police. I like that term.
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Unless he did something criminal (killed/maimed/raped/robbed someone), I profoundly don’t care what he did or said in the 70’s. He’s got 40 years of consistent progressive record — isn’t it telling that people have to dig through his revolutionary hippie youth to find anything even remotely scandalous? For most other candidates, I probably needn’t go back more than a few months to find something that will have one segment or another reach for the smelling salts.
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Great point! If all we have against him is a couple unfortunate sentences from decades ago, that’s good news, indeed.
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The problem is that he’s getting attention and the Priss Police can’t handle that. They want to get attention for going after him.
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Their fake outrage is beyond boring.
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Long time lurker. Thanks for this post. As a feminist, Shakesville disgusts me and I don’t understand HOW people could see that site and the awful dynamic in the comments and think that is a good feminist blog. I find at Shakesville they love to shout at and ban people who appear to be operating in good faith (not MRA trolls) and justify this horrible treatment of people under the name of creating a “safe space”, particularly for rape survivors. Yet between using content notes for a range of things, from traumatizing crimes like rape to “eating” (seriously, there is a Shakesville post somewhere with a content note for eating), which to me reads as basically equating wanting to avoid triggers for PTSD with discomfort over a discussion on eating, and using a word like “rapey” so flippantly, they demonstrate themselves to be shockingly disrespectful and minimizing of the seriousness of rape. How is this feminist?
Unsurprisingly, a poor commenter in that post expressed this: “I’m actually frightened reading his thoughts, such bizarre and male dominant images.” I seriously do not know how “Shakers” function in the real world, since the smallest of things seem to fill them with fear and anxiety.
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FWIW, nobody on any of the networks, including PBS has found this least bit interesting. I can’t decide whether because it’s boring (old school hippie with sexist free love tendencies 40 years ago! stop the presses!) or nobody thinks Bernie Sanders has any chance of winning. Seriously, not even my libertarian Texan friend who uses Facebook like Tumblr mentions this.
I mean, it’s very obvious the people writing this piece like Hillary the best and are just not going to be terribly happy with another old white dude running for president who doesn’t feel women’s issues at a visceral level. And the blog owner feels the same way. And I do think it’s a big part of this is age. The blog owner reached her zenith when she was asked to blog/advise John Edwards’ campaign, which lasted not that long At the time John Edwards was young, relatively charismatic and talked about economic inequality. His horrible personal life was well hidden away.
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It’s VERY obvious that Melissa McEwan is in the tank for Hillary, and that she, like certain other hard-core feminists (see articles in Salon.com and The Nation) is now terrified that Sanders may actually provide serious competition to Hillary’s goal of world domination.
So you can expect to see articles from those sites attacking Sanders until the Democratic primary is over.
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I don’t know if anyone would pass the Priss Police’s criteria for progressivism. Not if they lived in the 20th century at all. These complaints are so overly sensitive that it makes me ill. It’s not like Bill Cosby is running for president. Geez.
Anyway. I want a woman president but I’m disillusioned with Hillary Clinton. I wish Elizabeth Warren would run. She probably has more power in the senate though. I like everything I’ve seen from Sanders so far. The Priss Police on the other hand embarrass me.
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The problem with Sanders is that he has no experience with (and, it seems, very little knowledge of ) foreign policy. Plus, he’s somewhat of a one-issue politician. He’s great on the economy but there seems to be nothing else he’s interested in.
Hillary is a typical politician: hypocritical in the extreme, willing to do or say anything to get elected. That’s very off-putting.
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