Obama's sexist campaign ad

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This ad filled me with so much anger that I'm still afraid on whether I can type properly. I am not a woman because I voted for a man to tell me how to live my life. Sex should not be equated with maturity, nor should voting if you're simply going to be giggling and winking and nudging people over how clever and coy you are, and suggesting that every female who votes differently is not as grown up or special as you are. It's degrading and insulting that my entire political value as a human being has been reduced to birth control, as if women could not have any other possible concerns. And if we're going to be getting all giggly about our "first times", what about women who are voting for Jill Stein in this election? Are they still girls?

I loved the Libertarian counterpoint to this insulting garbage, though:
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No offense to anyone who wants to interpret them differently, but MOST ads oriented specifically to females which come out of democrats are a bit sexist. They seem to indirectly imply that all females should care about is the slight alteration in sexual freedom they promise them, and it's generally presented in a "because you want to or SHOULD want to be more open about it" kind of way. Doing that once might not be sexist, but this is their main "thing" for them. As if universal things like the economy is something only males care about, and females care about female-specific issues only.

And let's not even get into the fact that they (the ones that are doing this often being male themself) often call any female who votes republican "brainwashed;" as if they're not allowed to have their own opinion on how things should be run, if it conflicts the image that's trying to be pushed, which they "should" want. Because males treating females like they're inferior second class entities is somehow "okay" when it's done the democrat version.

I'm not republican either. But I'm just calling it how I see it. Both parties accuse eachother of sexism, and pretend that they don't have any, but neither are willing to admit that there's more than one kind of sexism. Red herrings abound when anyone zones in on anything that would break their own internal image. less

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This ad filled me with so much anger that I'm still afraid on whether I can type properly. I am not a woman because I voted for a man to tell me how to live my life. Sex should not be equated with maturity, nor should voting if you're simply going to be giggling and winking and nudging people over how clever and coy you are, and suggesting that every female who votes differently is not as grown up or special as you are. It's degrading and insulting that my entire political value as a human being has been reduced to birth control, as if women could not have any other possible concerns. And if we're going to be getting all giggly about our "first times", what about women who are voting for Jill Stein in this election? Are they still girls?

I loved the Libertarian counterpoint to this insulting garbage, though:
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I was voting for Gary Johnson anyway, but I am enraged that it was greenlit and approved by a party that claims to be all about women, when all I've seen is that they're for patting women on the head for their adorable out-of-control libidos and letting the menfolk worry about real issues. It's pure Victorianism, only instead of being worried about female licentiousness, it's now "Oh, those minxes, aren't they cute? Now let's throw them some condoms that someone else has paid for and get back to not talking about the fact that the Federal Government has passed a law allowing the President to indefinitely detain anyone without trial for any reason, sneaked into a bill providing healthcare and pay raises for our troops?" less

Um, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about and I think you might be a little confused.

The Patriot Act (thank you, George Idiot Bush) is what gives the government the right to detain anyone for any period of time for any reason without telling them why. less

Look up the NDAA. Obama has expanded the Patriot Act by leaps and bounds. He signed the NDAA, which re-affirms the "right" of the President to detain anyone they want for as long as they want without charges.

I am not confused, it's just people aren't really talking about this issue. less

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This ad filled me with so much anger that I'm still afraid on whether I can type properly. I am not a woman because I voted for a man to tell me how to live my life. Sex should not be equated with maturity, nor should voting if you're simply going to be giggling and winking and nudging people over how clever and coy you are, and suggesting that every female who votes differently is not as grown up or special as you are. It's degrading and insulting that my entire political value as a human being has been reduced to birth control, as if women could not have any other possible concerns. And if we're going to be getting all giggly about our "first times", what about women who are voting for Jill Stein in this election? Are they still girls?

I loved the Libertarian counterpoint to this insulting garbage, though:
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Well said. I get so sick of people yelling about Republican women being brainwashed, or black Republicans, or gay Republicans, etc, as though they don't have opinions and minds of their own, or they don't have things that they care about that have nothing to do with their sex, color or sexual orientation. The Democrats have appointed themselves as the spokesmen for every minority out there, never paying any attention to the fact that maybe those minorities have ideas that differ from the party line on other issues like the economy or defense. No, let's just let the wise white men decide all that for us; I'm too busy obsessing over my uterus.

I'm neither a Republican or Democrat, because both parties in their own ways disgust me, both are hypocritical, and both are shockingly similar once you cut through all the rhetoric. I don't care if Obama personally put the stamp of approval on this ad or not. His party, which he represents, did. It speaks volumes about them. less