Rebecca Traister On First Midterms Of The #MeToo Era - All In - MSNBC

[KelleyKramer]

People are waking up, especially women .....




Rebecca Traister On First Midterms Of The #MeToo Era | All In | MSNBC


Rebecca Traister, author of "Good and Mad," has seen women mobilize nationwide for the first midterm elections in the #MeToo era.

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[Honeycombe8]

1. Historically, women are their own worst enemies.

There were women who fought getting the vote, unbelievably. We live in a patriarchal, religious society, where some women have drunk the KoolAid and go along with the subserviant, men-are-the-leaders groupthink. Some just vote the way their husbands vote. Here where I live, it's unusual to find a woman who knows the brand of the house's a/c unit, what the walls are made of, how to unclog a sink. All that is man stuff. Seriously. Such a woman blames liberal and wild women for rapes. She thinks how her man tells her to think.

Hopefully, the enlightened women will show up at the polls more than the suburban white women who vote for the patriarchal society.

[pazzyanne]

2. Amen, sister!

I have experienced the same thing. I don't understand how these women can support being doormats. I have women in my generation who will put down the women who are trying to make a difference in the world, and will go so far as to try to berate those women who are expressing their beliefs. I grew up in the fifties and sixties. Thank goodness for the sixties! Many women awoke to the world during that decade.

I am so proud of the number of women stepping up and getting involved in politics. The government can only get better with the input from enlightened women!