Is there no space for women on the left?

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    [–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    this is by no means my only issue with Democrats. Actually, it's far from my biggest problem with them. Democrats enable racism, they don't fight it. Minneapolis is a Democratic city - how did that help? My issue with GC and "the left" actually isn't democrats, I'm talking about the people that I know which are not even democrats, they are much further to the left than them. It's not about who to vote for, it's more about where to find community, a place where I am not chased out. Voting is a different issue entirely, which as you say, depends on many other issues as well.

    [–]Anna_Nym 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    I'm still voting Democrat and don't see that changing in the near term. But I don't think the Left is actually helping with any of the things you list except protecting abortion. Increasingly, I'm worried the Left is going to hurt with both racism and economic suffering because cancel culture is squelching discussion. Just as women are getting shut down for trying to talk about our issues outside of the Twitter approved way, PoC also get shut down. Class issues have pretty much disappeared.

    If we can't have rigorous debates about policy, we can't create quality policy. Poor policy tends to hurt those who it tries to help. For a movement that has one of the tenets being impact matters, not intent, the social justice movement is hostile to examining its own impact.

    [–]MezozoicGay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It is sad that USA have complete monopoly of two parties, who control everything and can do whatever they want. It feels way too similar to China nowadays.

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    I could see them taking the trans movement to an extreme— making abortion and BC illegal so trans women can adopt children to molest. At this point I’m not kidding.

    [–]MezozoicGay 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I can see their logic:

    Trans women are women -> Trans women can't be pregnant -> So trans women don't need an abortion -> So women don't need abortion.

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    And “oh the birth rate is dropping! Let’s blame women for being evil!”

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    Think that’s already happening. It’s why the response from the democrats have been so weak against Republicans law against abortion. The indifference from the left is emboldening people from the right.