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RandySF
Feb 2019
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BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)1. The sad thing is that many women (and men) are so used to it that they
aren't even aware that it is happening around them all the time. Women are still second class citizens.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)2. I'm bitter about this treatment and am currently experiencing it.
A contractor won't answer my email questions, only my husband's. He's a younger guy too.
LakeArenal
(28,829 posts)3. Grrrr. So 1957
MLAA
(17,310 posts)6. maybe your husband and you could meet with him and call him out on his misogyny...
Good luck 😉
Duppers
(28,125 posts)10. I think he'd just deny it.
I need to talk privately with his boss.
Thank you tho. 🙏
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,380 posts)4. Nevertheless, she persisted
Elliot Abrams was obviously flustered. I wonder if Moscow Mitch and others of similar mind were, too.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)5. K and R
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)7. She rocks.
She will always have my vote. Call a spade a spade.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)8. Elliott sure dislikes having his past brought back up to him
He seems awfully touchy today about having his own words from 37 years ago quoted back to him. The details of the atrocities at El Mozote barely even registered on his face.
spanone
(135,855 posts)9. these criminals are indignant when you bring truth into the room
RandySF
(59,031 posts)11. Abrams never thought he'd have to answer to a Muslim woman of color
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)12. Or anyone else for that matter
But yeah, it's gotta stick in his craw that a young woman in an hijab is forcing him to explain himself.