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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn patriarchal cultures, men decide. Alabama is such a culture.
Fundamentalist Christianity, too. So, if men decide that young girls are fair game, we get Roy Moore and people who don't think anything is wrong. When old men make the rules, young women pay the price.
And that's the name of that game. End patriarchy, and such abuses will pretty much disappear. Elect more women at all levels of government.
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In patriarchal cultures, men decide. Alabama is such a culture. (Original Post)
MineralMan
Nov 2017
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Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders that's breaking your back.
dubyadiprecession
Nov 2017
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Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)1. You said it!
Hence a victim voting for a confessed predator. The predators set the culture, and set the victims up to expect a lifetime of oppression.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)3. Seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)2. Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders that's breaking your back.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)4. Yup.