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calimary

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33. That's okay. It's a suggestion. And from your post I'm guessing your sweetie is an enlightened one.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:02 PM
Mar 2012

There'd be no reason for a symbolic boycott. My husband's certainly one of those - he's extremely intelligent and broadminded.

I just think there should be consequences OF ALL KINDS for this kind of 13th Century thinking. These bastards push this stuff because they can, because there's no push-back of any note - at least up til lately, that is. There HAVE TO BE consequences for this type of thinking. Because having none means this behavior is tacitly viewed as okay. It's okay to prey upon women, victimize them, and deny them their rights, or do everything you can to roll back and/or nulllify their rights. I don't believe in reinforcing bad behavior. I didn't do that as a parent, with my children. For the same reason, I'm supporting the following, too (boycotting rush lamebrain and calling on his sponsors to stop supporting his accursed radio show:

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/proflowersrush/?akid=39.265687.2qSC-t&rd=1&t=1

I think we have to strike from ALL SIDES, ALL CORNERS. That's what the bad guys do to us - keeping us busy and practically dizzy trying to keep up with all the assaults on the progress we've made. Time to turn the tables.

For a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time, here on DU, I've been a proud advocate of returning fire for fire. Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it. Having shoved it back in the face of at least two bullies in my life, I've seen personally, from practical application, that it's a technique that WORKS. It CHECKS the bad behavior. It gets their attention. And it has more of an impact the harder and more uncomfortable it hits home. I WANT this to hurt. In the link here, for example, I WANT this to hurt limbaugh, to cut into his earnings, to make him look bad and more of a liability than he's worth in the eyes of his sponsors. I WANT him to feel the sting (and indeed, also the taste) of the shit he spews. To do nothing sends the opposite message - reinforcing the idea that the offensive behavior is somehow okay and in no need of response or checking or curtailing or condemning. You know that famous meditation from the World War II era - "When they came for the trade unionists, I didn't say anything because I wasn't a trade unionist..."

There should be MANY attack strategies coming from every direction imaginable. So if you're not comfortable with one, you have other options and choices.

I wonder if anyone has proposed this to Occupy, MoveOn, NARAL, PP ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #1
Oh, we're all about taking action over on FB. kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #2
There's also this: calimary Feb 2012 #5
Ohh. Thanks! n/t ProfessionalLeftist Mar 2012 #14
Don't know. But I'm just fed up with this! I wanna force some damn CONSEQUENCES calimary Feb 2012 #4
Yup, men required to have a penis probe before getting an RX for viagra. Got to find crunch60 Feb 2012 #8
I think some of our reps in DC should start another line of attack as well: calimary Mar 2012 #34
I feel the same way. Ship of Fools Mar 2012 #26
"Lysistrata" TreasonousBastard Feb 2012 #3
And after the legislators Ilsa Feb 2012 #6
My wonderful husband AnnieBW Mar 2012 #10
My thoughts exactly <eom> catrose Mar 2012 #12
That was my first thought, too. hifiguy Mar 2012 #25
That has been the answer all along. See who comes to their milk then! lonestarnot Feb 2012 #7
That bill got me incensed, too. It is unbelievable to have this going on in the 21st century! Honeycombe8 Feb 2012 #9
But wouldn't the woman be punishing herself as well as her partner? Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #11
are you voting in favour of any of these woman-hating bills? if not, you should be okay niyad Mar 2012 #13
Yes. The whole idea partakes of the same sexism treestar Mar 2012 #17
Well, women are being attacked directly in their genitals with the trans-vaginal probe lunatica Mar 2012 #19
There must be some other way - letter writing, marches, protests treestar Mar 2012 #22
You can't be more mistaken lunatica Mar 2012 #29
But that's exactly the problem with it. Withywindle Mar 2012 #31
Certainly not! Our husbands, partners, lovers who support us in this - are all exempt. calimary Mar 2012 #32
That still wouldn't remove the option of renting or toe tapping in public restrooms Major Nikon Mar 2012 #15
I'm beginning to see red, too. Ship of Fools Mar 2012 #16
Don't you think those same people already see us as manipulative? lunatica Mar 2012 #20
Oh, absoLUTEly they do. No question!!!! Ship of Fools Mar 2012 #24
I hope that's one of the many ways we should do it lunatica Mar 2012 #30
I think these bills are about as overreaching as you can get without actually being in the bedroom. HughBeaumont Mar 2012 #18
Is this protest needed against you? lunatica Mar 2012 #21
Cut. Them. Off. Bake Mar 2012 #23
Why should my wife have an excuse? DiverDave Mar 2012 #27
This makes no sense to me. HappyMe Mar 2012 #28
That's okay. It's a suggestion. And from your post I'm guessing your sweetie is an enlightened one. calimary Mar 2012 #33
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