I would start here:
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In other words - nothing.
Sanders has a lifelong reputation built on supporting and sponsoring Women's rights and the fight against sexual assault. Yet you seem happy to speculate about the possibility that "one or two" women may have made allegations against him based on a dumb essay he wrote 45 years ago.Comment
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Wasn't he attacking 1970s gender stereotypes by satirising how patriarchal society framed and portrayed women's sexuality? He wasn't personally advocating violence against women or saying that women secretly wanted to be raped. He was attacking men's attraction to narratives or notions - such as "she must have wanted it" - that downplayed or "justified" abuse.
In Sanders' own words:
"It was a poorly written article dealing with gender stereotypes of the period, in the sense that a lot of men have the feel to be all powerful and controlling. Women have the feeling they have to be dependent. It was very poorly written in a way I certainly would not write it now. But if you read it, what you find is that is a bad situation for both people: women shouldn’t be dependent. Men should not be oppressors. We want a society where people are equal. That was about it was about."
I think you've read the "offending paragraph" as a literal rendering of Sanders' personal views - which it isn't - so the actual point of the essay obviously went right over your head. That this essay was disingenuously framed by those hostile to Sanders as a blemish on his character is pure bogus perception management and you appear to have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker.
Even if that paragraph was Sanders' personal thinking at the time, it's hardly justification for your borderline-defamatory conjecture that it's "VERY possible" he might have sexually abused multiple women, is it?
What else is there to add weight to your silly comment, seeing as you said that essay is merely where you "would start"?Comment
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Actually MSNBC's (far left) Joy Reid brought that up today in a give and take with Jane Sanders on Twitter.Comment
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Ha, MSNBC is not "far-left".
Anyway, I've no idea what Reid said, so what's your point? It's still baloney.Comment
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The farthest left. Rachel Maddow, etc......https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC_controversies
Well that it is a prominent black female democrat who thinks Sanders is "dismissive of women around him, including his wife." I think other females might feel the same.Last edited by KrisLetang; 30/11/2017, 8:31 PM.Comment
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I'm not even sure it's left on the political spectrum. Maybe less right or more centrist than other mainstream media in the US would be a better way of putting it. Maddow might be socially liberal, but she's a hawkish fiscal conservative.
The notion of a genuine left-right spectrum within mainstream US politics is a pretence, as Chomsky explains in this video:
Other females like who? Like Sanders' wife? She strongly rubbished Reid's contention and she's got first-hand experience of the man in question.Well that it is a prominent black female democrat who thinks Sanders is "dismissive of women around him, including his wife." I think other females might feel the same.
Anyway, even if he has been "dismissive" of women - I don't know enough about his personal life to know, so feel free to elaborate with evidence - it's still no justification for your ludicrous abuse insinuation.
And what exactly is meant by "dismissive" here anyway? What's it in reference to?Last edited by DannyInvincible; 01/12/2017, 5:19 AM.Comment
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One of the trolls from this thread actually thought it would be funny to try to troll me personally, so they've been banned. Since only they and one other person cared about this thread, and then only for trolling and/or feeding their idiocy, this thread is going the same way. All future discussion of the Idiocracy will be fact-based.Comment
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