I think that this primary season is bringing out the sexism in our culture. [View All]

[undeterred]

I'm no Hillary fan, but I see it when men overreact to the idea of a woman leader, something which has been going on around the world for a century.

Some of the posts in GD and the responses bother me (hey, lets make prostitution legal~! as if girls and women, who are economically disadvantaged) don't get hurt or exploited by prostitution, legal or not. They get beaten, raped, and murdered all the time- do you think that would change if it were legal?

And some of the men I work with blamed the 16 year old girl who complained about being sexually abused by her 50 year old "husband" for lying to get him in trouble. Everyone knows 16 year old girls are sluts who lie. And we are a backward country for not letting men do what comes naturally, which is "fuck all the teenagers they want". Thats how the rest of the world does it- we just haven't caught up yet. When I pointed out that there are girls and women living in sexual slavery all over the world, the answer was "boys too".

I had to stop working for a Democratic congressional candidate who believed that men should have the "right" to force a woman not to abort a child they believed they were the parent of.

We have taken so many steps backwards I'm afraid to count. And the thing is, we have a female presidential candidate who isn't particularly focused on womens issues. She's just a woman. But men feel like they have to bring us back to cave man times to even the score.