"Better to just own up to what you are doing: sacrificing Ms. Reade for the good of the many."
  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it…

    that is just real dark

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    You see, it actually helps the feminist movement to put our moral outrage at rape on hold instead of being ideologically consistent about bad rape being bad.

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm a guy, but isn't this considered a dick move in the sisterhood?

  • cumslutlenin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Contemplating the act makes me feel a little like Gloria Steinem, circa 1998. I was so sure I’d never do what she did, and I still think saving Mr. Clinton for two years at the cost to Ms. Lewinsky was a terrible move. Denigrating Ms. Lewinsky denied all women’s vulnerability to powerful men, and replacing Mr. Clinton with another Democratic centrist, Al Gore, would have been a perfectly acceptable outcome.

    🤔 🤔 🤔

    I hope those wikipedia articles she read about utilitarianism help her sleep at night

    EDIT: holy shit I just looked her up and she's an actual retired professor of philosophy?? and this is the philosophical argument she's making? fucking pathetic

  • vorenza [any]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know why you are getting mad at this framing, this is honest and depending on the perspective you might have, also correct. You might say that they are wrong and their calculations about the future is wrong(i think they are wrong too), but it doesn't mean that this person is evil or that they don't care about women's rights. If you can give critical support to Stalin this person can give critical support to Biden.

    • Vayeate [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      It is not my fault that the DNC allowed a known rapist to run. If the DNC wants to ram a candidate down our throats then it's their fault when he loses - not mine. I'm not voting for a rapist.

      • vorenza [any]
        2·
        4 years ago

        it’s their fault when he loses - not mine. I’m not voting for a rapist.

        This is my perspective too, why did you comment as if i think you should be voting Biden, i just tried to say that even if their reasoning is unlikely, it still contains points that are plausible when you look at this election from a certain perspective.