Reply #32: So you are arguing that white women are flaky. Ok. [View All]

[Anouka]

don't buy into the b.s. that it's mostly white rural men who are racist. racism is a human failure, and we -- regardless of gender or race -- are all human.


for me, it hurts to buy into the argument that white women in NH are flaky, flighty and easily moved by the appearance of tears and the appearance of losing in a debate with a man. that's not feminist at all. that's the opposite of feminism and strength. i can't do it. i don't think white women are flaky. i do think an excuse was used.

i'd much rather those women had not mentioned the tears at all ... and yet it keeps being mentioned, and even here women mention it with pride right before they go into 'it's payback time against men' mode.

that's why i do wonder, how many of the women who ate that b.s. up grew up in a time period when that type of b.s. was an acceptable and necessary survival method for many women, and that's why they found it sympathetic and found her 'human' instead of calculating. but i don't know.

something funny happened. even at its simplest -- cooked post-Iowa polls with hellacious margins of error -- that's STILL a bad thing. who cooked the polls? and why? or were they?

but got to move forward.