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Star Member Atticus (10,809 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215439080An inconvenient---and DISGUSTING---truth: the real reason Republicans are vilifying SpeakerPelosi has nothing to do with her policies or her competence and is the same as their reason for the 2016 "Hate Hillary" campaign---she doesn't have a penis.Republicans default to bullying when other tactics don't seem to be working. If one accuses the Speaker of advocating some specific policy, she can deny or explain the details of why that isn't accurate. But, she cannot deny or explain away the fact that "she's a girl" and, hell, "everyone knows" that "girls" are "the weaker sex" and tend to be "erratic" and "unserious" and "shrill" when criticized.This is why Republicans think they are "smearing" Democratic Senate candidates by linking them to Nancy. This is misogyny, plain and simple.
Walleye (5,875 posts) 1. Obvious to me all along. Sick of the Pundits talking like it's a policy thing.Really tired of all the female Republican misogynists. Who was it used to say “when we take over we got to get rid of a few of us, too”?
Sympthsical (1,078 posts) 2. I don't think anyone - including Republicans - think Speaker Pelosi is weakShe is formidable and intelligent. They don't perceive her as a weak woman in some sexist vein. They see her as a threat. She's as threatening as any male ever was.I think reducing opposition to her as mere sexism actually reduces her stature. It explains away her achievements, her intelligence, her power.She's a powerful figure in her own right. She has done nothing but **** with Republicans on every single level.The idea, "They hate her because they're sexist," seems to diminish all she has done.They vilify her because they saw how she wrestled Trump to the mat. So they need to vilify her. It's a credit, not a diminishment.
Star Member Atticus (10,809 posts) 5. I agree that Republicans don't PERCEIVE her as weak, but that does not stop them fromappealing to the misogyny of their "base".I think they actually "FEARED" Hillary, but the implied "she's only a girl" campaign worked.
Star Member bullwinkle428 (19,353 posts) 4. I keep going back to the "merch salesman" at RW gatherings. This guywas interviewed about how his business was doing several weeks back, and he expressed that the anti-Hillary and anti-Obama stuff was still selling like hotcakes, but he couldn't even give the anti-Biden stuff away.Do we need further proof that racism and misogyny are the "rocket fuel" that propels the engines of fascists?
Star Member Bettie (11,174 posts) 8. Yeah, that's why they use AOC as the "scary" name as wellthey hate women. Even right wing women hate women.
Star Member CaptainTruth (3,478 posts) 11. The GOP superiority mindset isn't just about white superiority......it's white, male, rich, religious superiority. Hence the misogyny.We let them off the hook too easily when we only focus on their racist white superiority, there's a lot more to their superiority psychosis than just racism.
I don't give a shit what she has between her legs. I can't stand her because she is an insufferable ****.
Star Member Atticus (10,809 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215439080An inconvenient---and DISGUSTING---truth: the real reason Republicans are vilifying SpeakerPelosi has nothing to do with her policies or her competence and is the same as their reason for the 2016 "Hate Hillary" campaign---she doesn't have a penis.
She is formidable and intelligent.