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TFW you think you're the "experienced sex-crimes prosecutor" hired as "investigative staff counsel" (Original Post) ehrnst Sep 2018 OP
They just can't help themselves. brer cat Sep 2018 #1
I think they know what they are doing, pazzyanne Sep 2018 #4
women? Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #7
She's an Assistant... Mc Connell said so JCMach1 Sep 2018 #2
Maybe Dr. Ford can refer Mitchell as "Female Assistant" instead of her honorific idcdu Sep 2018 #5
I agree. LiberalFighter Sep 2018 #9
Fuck them. Fuck fuck fuck fuck their scurvy selves BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2018 #3
The Token Woman Window Dressing dlk Sep 2018 #6
I'm starting to think that none of this is even about Circus Peanut Bettie Sep 2018 #8
It is probably time they get their own medicine. LiberalFighter Sep 2018 #10
You know, it really is Bettie Sep 2018 #11

brer cat

(24,565 posts)
1. They just can't help themselves.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:20 AM
Sep 2018

Women are always disrespected and diminished in republican world; used, abused and then discarded. It is automatic with them; they don't even think before they speak.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
7. women?
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:23 AM
Sep 2018

"Female assistant".
Female otter.
Female bug.
Female pet.
Female beast.

Not necessarily human.

"Women" are most definitely human.
McCONnell can't bring himself to go that far.

 

idcdu

(170 posts)
5. Maybe Dr. Ford can refer Mitchell as "Female Assistant" instead of her honorific
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:58 AM
Sep 2018

Whatever that may be.

Then asking the assistant which senators asked what questions.

LiberalFighter

(50,928 posts)
9. I agree.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:38 AM
Sep 2018

My thought was when answering the question refer to the Senator actually asking. Or just pretend if they refuse.

dlk

(11,566 posts)
6. The Token Woman Window Dressing
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:14 AM
Sep 2018

Apparently, they believe Americans aren’t smart enough to see there’s no woman on the Republican side of the Senate Judiciary Committee, nor has there ever been one.

Bettie

(16,109 posts)
8. I'm starting to think that none of this is even about Circus Peanut
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:38 AM
Sep 2018

or his crimes or anything but the desire to enshrine White Male Supremacy in our laws, so that the women, POC, LGBTQ+, and anyone else they deem beneath them legally can't get "uppity" and demand unreasonable things like civil rights.

I'm reaching the point where it is not safe for my beloved husband to drag me to family events because I will eventually explode and tell them what I really think.

Bettie

(16,109 posts)
11. You know, it really is
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 10:55 AM
Sep 2018

my husband (white male, but not rich) has been saying that old white men need to let go of the reins of power.

We need a change, a big change but those old white dudes are not going to let go easily and may decide to destroy it all on their way out.

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