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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: [OT] What is happening in/to the US ?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:52:53 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v7u36i$2ciau$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-07-25, Craig A. Berry <craigberry@nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 7/24/24 10:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 7/24/2024 9:22 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/24/24 7:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>>>>> OTOH, Ms Harris needs to learn gravitas and to stop behaving like a 
>>>>> giggling
>>>>> teenage schoolgirl if she wants to be elected (and to be taken seriously
>>>>> by the rest of the world.)
>>>>
>>>> Would you describe a male politician whose laugh you didn't like as
>>>> "like a giggling teenage schoolgirl"?
>>>>
>>>> Please take your ignorance and misogyny elsewhere.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Why is it that one cannot say anything about some female without getting 
>>> that silly word flung at them?
>>
>> He didn't "say anything."  He specifically belittled her for how she
>> expresses emotion in public, which is about as classic as misogyny gets.
>> If you don't get that, educate yourself.  Here might be a good place to
>> start:
>
>And that reply is a perfect example of what I meant in my followup.
>
>You have taken a legitimate comment about the personality of a person
>wanting to do what is one of the most important jobs in your country
>and rewritten it to state that any such criticism is an attack on all
>women for being women, instead of discussing the criticism itself.

Perhaps if you hadn't phrased it in terms of her acting, "like a
giggling teenage schoolgirl" others wouldn't have found it an
expression of misogyny.  After all, you were the one who phrased
it in terms of her being a woman.

	- Dan C.