For starters:
(1)They campaign on restoring a way of life that never existed
(2)They campaign on restoring a way of life that benefits the priveleged few
(3)They have an unadmitted male-dominance based family and economic system
(4)They do not acknowledge the significance of the legacy of racism and sexism in this country
(5)Their view of achievement and prosperity is heiarchy based, which pre-destines most people to be at a low level of the pyramid
(6)Their sex agenda, on top of being nothing short of government in the bedroom, isn't even carried out consistently by the top leaders of it. They don't deliver on it.
(7)They have a narrow, black and white, over simplistic view of the Federal government
In the Presidential elections, The Republicans always get the white male
vote. Male Republicans only conceded that a woman's right to a career is just as
valid as a man's, after you've twisted their arm by pressing them to articulate
what makes the man the head of the household, and define masculinity other than
rhetoric and tradition. They say that with high taxes, both parents are at work,
time isn't spent on the children, and "big government" is raising the kids. It's
clear that working women are not part of the Republican Utopia. Then, when they
see how backwards they are, they add "Oh, yeah, the wife can work too." There
are even time when the conservatives don't even bother cloaking it like Rush
Limbaugh saying that the woman can work but it's "preferred" that she stay home
and raise the children. This lack of inclusion for women has unsurprisingly left
the liberals as the champion for women and the conservatives patching up their
1880's rhetoric in an attempt to sound as if they are modernized. They
superficially tack on the notion that a woman can be a bread winner, but only at
the expense of the Republican family, and as an ornament, rather than an
integral part of the "family values" ideology.
Here is a serious issue. Once again conservatives oversimplify a complex
psychological issue. The link here cites that conservative retaliated against
rape statistics on the grounds that if the rape reportings were that high, from
all of their female friends, they would have had far more friends confide in
them that they were raped. The flaw here is that conservatives, as always,
regard other people with other mind sets, in the context of their own mind set.
[One time on Oprah Winfrey, a cop said that criminals hold a hidden gun to a
woman in public and say to come with them and they won't hurt them. They get
them to a secluded area and rape them.] The mistake that the cop said that
normal people make is judging a criminal by your own mind set (how they would go
about doing the crime instead how a criminal would go about doing the crime). So
a typical conservative, who defends traditional family and powerful churches
because they didn't have abusive dominating fathers to see how the power
structure to a family can oppress women, because they were blind to (or didn't
have) abusive manipulating priests that twisted religion to be an institution of
power, will judge other people's behavior from their mindset. If a woman who
grew up in a peachy keen middle class whitebred neighborhood, and had family and
religious leaders that were carbon copy examples of "Leave it to Beaver" then if
they were raped, I'm sure they would go to the authorites, as do some women (not
enough). But rapists are known for having an uncanny ability to
probe/observe women who are meek and least likely to retaliate or report the
crime in an effort to put it behind them or not to deal with it, or prolong it.
These women are scared, hurt, confused, alienated and should not be erased from
the equation of rape politics because they don't fit neatly into how
conservatives think all women behave when they are raped. This was a good
retaliting article. Score one for the victims of rape! Many, many more coming... I'll start off with a few thoughts... (1)After Al Gore wins, it will show that the Republicans won't have the excuse of saying that the victory was a technicality because of his charisma like Bill Clinton
(2)It will show that we have finally said goodbye to the WW II hype of them being the best generation ever, goodbye to the Reagan years, goodbye to women in the kitchen, and acknowledge that even the championed "conservative" icon generation of Generation X is socially liberal in matters of the church, sex and aren't as their right winged predecessors.
Feminist rebuttal on conservatives critiquing rape reportings
A blast from the past; treehugger on the 2000 race!
What will the 2000 Presidential race mean?
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