When is this sh*t going to end?

[Mosby]

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Poor woman.

[LoisB]

1. Disgusting. From under the thumb of one man to under the thumb of another.

[multigraincracker]

2. I'd bet our own Magats

dream about shit like this.
A-holes.

[Timeflyer]

3. Reminds me of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel: My life," 2007. She escaped

this brand of religious/cultural oppression. Death threats followed, but she's fearless.

[Biophilic]

4. Interesting...there was another post that had a so called woman preaching to college students,

That I thought was hysterical. Best laugh of my day. But many others thought it shouldn't be on DU. Then I came to this one that I thought didn't belong on DU at all. I found this disgusting and degrading. It made me ill to watch even for a few seconds. It was an important reminder to me that we are a community of different people with different ideas of what is acceptable and what isn't. And yet, we manage to work together and try to build a better future for ourselves and those that come after us. Good points.

[niyad]

8. Curious about why you think it should not be here. Do you think that we should

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not see and know how women are treated? The thinking and culture exhibited there is not so very different from the mindset of the Woman-haters in this country, who are becoming more vocal and brazenly open by the day.

[Biophilic]

11. I think I was just so f'ing appalled by it and felt we/I shouldn't have to see this on DU.

Total gut reaction to something horrendously awful. I suspected that may have been some of the others reactions to another story that I didn't think was so awful.

[niyad]

12. I can understand that. But it is important that we see and know what is going on,

including the fact that this is exactly what the Woman-haters in this country are working toward.

[Biophilic]

13. I hear you, but sometimes I find it just too much. Not anything to do with anyone else, just me.

I agree we need to see it, or at least have access to see it. I suspect that even 5 years ago I wouldn't have had such a strong reaction because it was so far out of my normal life and life's possibilities. But I was wrong and that scares me, that this could actually happen here. That appalls me and makes me want to give up. Right now I feel like all the work we've done over the past 60 years is balancing on the edge of a deep abyss. I honestly don't want to look over the edge to see where we failed.

[niyad]

14. I truly understand. Some days it is too much for me, as well. I had been

saying for years that we were one scotus vote from "The Handmaid's Tale". Seems I was an optimist.

[Biophilic]

15. Actually, sometimes the reason I get on DU is to hear success stories and laugh at funny dogs.

Some days the dogs don't work and everything is more dire and a lost cause. But, thanks to DU and all of you who post here I'm usually able to get out of that spot and think more positively. I'm glad you're willing to share you optimism. Thanks.

[niyad]

16. I thank Bast every day for all the cat and dog videos and stories here, and

frequently go to them first. And then finding positive, activist people, knowing we are not alone, helps so much. DU saves my sanity, gives me hope, even on the darkest days.

Nevertheless, She persisted.

[Biophilic]

17. Thank, Bast, she does persist. May we all persist. Actually, it's the only sane choice.

[Scrivener7]

5. I wish all those woman had walked out.

[niyad]

7. They are conditioned not to.

[Scrivener7]

9. I know. We all are in one way or another.

[niyad]

10. Sadly true.

[niyad]

6. Sadly, this is not so different from the way the Woman-haters in this country

think, and would like to see in action.