Definitely enormously better today. Many very recognizable speakers, a lot of valuable points made. Impactful real-life stories. Altogether, there was a clear narrative that brought the speeches together.
One thing that always entertains me is when people say, “but how can he (or she) endorse the frontrunner after the horrible things they said about each other in the primaries!” The complexity of adult lives is difficult for them to accept.
I didn’t watch much of the RNC but I liked this speech. There’s a lot of political issues I care about abstractly and will nod along to but this one cuts to my core. I deal with the consequences of soft on crime politicians every single day at work and every time I walk around my neighborhood. It’s incredible the kind of stuff the “pro-worker” and “feminist” left expect lower and working class urban Americans to put up with. Men who sexually harass, intimidate, even assault women who work in retail end up walking the streets free, there’s never any consequences. It disgusts me. And of course, that’s peanuts compared to what this woman has gone through.
That’s one of the reasons why I despised #MeToo so much. We kept handwringing about the imaginary troubles of Hollywood starlets who weren’t managing to prostitute themselves very successfully while completely ignoring that the living standards and safety were going to the dogs for working class people.
It got utterly surreal when in Canada there was a huge freakout over some invented harassment by a professor at Concordia University when absolutely everybody who’s ever been in the vicinity of Concordia knows that it’s impossible to exist there as a woman not because of professors but because of the large number of Muslim immigrants in the area. Women get poked, grabbed, insulted and harassed there constantly with police showing complete indifference. But nobody dares mention that. This hypocrisy is disgusting.
I remember early on people didn’t pretend the push to expose creeps in Hollywood had anything to do with helping ordinary woman, and I was supportive of it because that seems fine enough and it was honest about what it was. People were calling it things like “the Weinstein effect.” But then it somehow got connected to the #metoo hashtag and people started pretending it had broader significance
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