Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Deserving a separate shout-out, while linked to in the first paragraph of the following post - Republican women, profiled.

But is it wrongful profiling, or truth? Enough quoting and assuring correct link transcription in the next post below, this post is carried primarily by -

THE LINK.

If there is an encompassing single quote, try this (mid-item):

A new CBS News poll shows that while only 29 percent of American women want Kavanaugh confirmed, a full 70 percent of Republican women want him on the bench. Even the Morning Consult poll that was being held out as evidence that Republican women were abandoning Trump and Kavanaugh didn't really show that. While there was some slippage of female Republican support, only about 15 percent of Republican women were willing to oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation — compared to 39 percent disapproval among all female voters.

Theses polls also found that Democratic and independent men were far more skeptical of Kavanaugh than Republican women -- and by wide margins.

While this might surprise casual observers, it did not surprise Undem, who told Salon, "Gender equality is very much a partisan issue," and noted that her own research has shown, over and over again, that Republican women are nearly as good at denying and minimizing sexism as Republican men. They tend to sign off on the same view that sexism isn't really a problem, but is largely something women make up to get attention or score political points.

And gender-related pay differentials are fiction too? Who are these people? From what planet?

At any rate the above quote omits links that are in the original, and the full item is thoughtfully written and well documented via its links.

Again, Salon, online here. On a most serious note, following after the above quote and wrapping up the item:

While most of the focus of the gender fight of recent decades has been on issues like equal pay or abortion rights, Spruill observes that other questions directly relevant to the Kavanaugh case have long played a role. "Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum, for years, were opposed to a lot of what feminists said and did to try to protect women from violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence,” she said.

Schlafly's extensive history of bashing feminist efforts to prevent domestic violence and sexual abuse is still easy to find online. She railed against the Violence Against Women Act from its inception, claiming that it encouraged divorce and taught women to hate men. When Anita Hill stepped forward to accuse Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, Schlafly argued that Hill was to blame for the harassment because she hadn't pushed back, and suggested that women in the workplace would have to learn "to thrive in a hostile environment."

[again, links in original are omitted] Any person, whatever race/gender/orientation, who minimizes the actual long-term trauma of violence against anyone, with women more vulnerable, is an inhumane individual. That applies to the anti-wife-beating and anti-bullying questions. A person minimizing the evils of bullying of any kind (which upon reflection clearly includes violence against women) is a misguided human being. There are no two ways about that. They deserve no high places in a sane and civil society. They earn only scorn.