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History of Feminism

KitSileya

(4,035 posts)

11. You shouldn't spend time on that

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:00 AM

Jan 2014

Women at Walmart are treated infinitely better than women working in the Marianas Islands, and women in Fallujah are treated much better than women in the People's Republic of Congo, so then we cannot talk about any other issues than the enslavement of women in American overseas factories and the rape of Congolese women.

I mean, otherwise your derailment would have been for naught.

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Clock turning back on American women. [View all] BainsBane Jan 2014 OP

Fortunately, Hillary crafted the TPP to fix that MannyGoldstein Jan 2014 #1

Hmm ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #8

She's right. We are turning back the clock on women. SunSeeker Jan 2014 #2

How are women treated at Walmart? ForgoTheConsequence Jan 2014 #3

Do you realize you are in the History of Feminism Group? BainsBane Jan 2014 #4

So women in the third world don't count? ForgoTheConsequence Jan 2014 #6

Hillary is very popular among women in the third world JI7 Jan 2014 #7

Care to back that up? ForgoTheConsequence Jan 2014 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author BainsBane Jan 2014 #22

i'm referring to a specific group and specific issues which is women's rights, women around the JI7 Jan 2014 #24

Focus dear. We aren't talking about climate change either. It doesn't mean we are saying Squinch Jan 2014 #9

Speaking out about employee issues is exactly what she did DURHAM D Jan 2014 #10

"Right wing ignorant tripe on DU is so tedious but is also so very telling." redqueen Jan 2014 #12

"Right wing ignorant tripe on DU is so tedious but is also so very telling." Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #14

Right wing. ForgoTheConsequence Jan 2014 #16

insisting on derailing a conversation away from issues about women BainsBane Jan 2014 #18

You shouldn't spend time on that KitSileya Jan 2014 #11

She can speak out all she wants. ForgoTheConsequence Jan 2014 #17

You can of course answer your own question, and expound on it to make the point you so desperately w LanternWaste Jan 2014 #23

"American women lag behind other first-world countries" JI7 Jan 2014 #5

Impressive. I don't see any conservative spin denying the existence or significance of the wage gap. redqueen Jan 2014 #13

Do you mean from Clinton? BainsBane Jan 2014 #19

I meant DUers. No shortage of comments ignoring the topic trying to make this about Clinton, though. redqueen Jan 2014 #20

Yeah, I shouldn't have put her name in the title BainsBane Jan 2014 #21