https://www.dailykos.com/news/WomenStandingUp News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:59:03 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:59:03 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/11/20/1717384/-If-you-re-not-a-sexual-predator-or-defender-of-toxic-masculinity-this-is-not-about-you <p>Dear Men Folks like Moore and Rose and those who enable them - about those dangly bits. This may be a news flash to you, but not every one is impressed by your pendulous prize. Yes, we know you think they magically confer some kind of awesome power, and that everyone should be impressed that you get to choose between boxers and briefs. </p> <p>You may even genuflect as you go by the Washington monument, a phallic symbol if there ever was one, while dreaming of glandular grandeur.</p> <p>But the rest of us know the actions of entitled, overgrown, man babies when we see them.</p> <p>The latest sports car or cushy job won’t disguise that.  Powerful...<em>ahem</em>…positions will not either. Take away the money, expensive clothes, and the spot light, and at the heart you’re still demanding that we worship your dangling participle.</p> <p>That day is done.</p> <p>You may have not gotten over the discovery of your first pull toy, but the rest of us moved on a long time ago.</p> <p>We weigh worth on a much higher scale. We value intelligence, compassion, understanding, humor, and hard work. We value treating others with respect and dignity, something your low hanging fruit seems to have blinded you to.</p> <p>We refuse to give obedience to the one eyed king.  We refuse to tolerate your behavior towards our daughters, sisters, friends, and wives.</p> <p>We refuse to allow your behavior to stand as an example for our sons.</p> <p>So this thing that is going on with women standing up and speaking their truths? This thing where good men are backing women up?</p> <p>Get used to it.</p> <p>We’re not about to sit back down, shut up, and be awed by overweening egos based on dangly bits. </p> <p>We have the incompetent, traitorous, sexual predator in the White House because too many of you, including in the Media, valued his crotch grabbing sexist bravado over a qualified woman.</p> <p>Tuck <em>that</em> into your boxers.</p> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> rss@dailykos.com (Onomastic) CharlieRose DanglyBits Nothavingthisatall Patriarchy Recommended RoyMoore SexualPredators toxicmasculinity WomenStandingUp _1717384 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:48:12 +0000