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A few points here, @MikeCarlton01, and I hope you'll hear me out.
I am not sure that you are the best person to determine whether particular language is misogynistic, just as you and I are not really qualified to decide whether language deemed by non-white people to be racist is actually offensive.
When women tell you that they find his insults disturbingly familiar in the context of gendered abuse, you should listen. When in a discussion entirely unrelated, a man refers to a woman's weight and appearance and tells her to sit down and be quiet? ...
That has a resonance women everywhere recognise. Yes, such comments *could* be made to a man, but ask yourself: when are they? And ask the women you know if they remind them of anything in their experience or that of their female friends.
That Jodi McKay publicly states that she doesn't see his attack as gendered does not mean it wasn't. We all know how disparaged women in public life are when they "pull the gender card". The discourse isn't likely to consider whether she's right...
It is far more likely to be along the lines of "if you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen." Calling out misogyny is rarely a career-enhancing move for a female politician.
Misogyny, like racism, is so pervasive that it is often as invisible as the air around us. That is the nature of systematic bias.
Please, do give these comments some quiet contemplation.
And I hope you will note, I am not being "hysterical. ".
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Please, do give these comments some quiet contemplation.
And I hope you will note, I am not being "hysterical. ".
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