Are most women liberals because they identify with the oppressed?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Do they believe that the inequality felt by blacks and others is what they have felt and still do in regard to aspects of their lives? Methinks this explains the reflexive reaction on the part of the "sisterhood" to many issues that are brought up here...
 

You are muddying the waters...
 

NO... you are guilty of generalization. I think you can even see on this board that there are women who do not fall into the category you propose.
 
Yes, but a generalization has an element of truth even though it doesn't apply to all...
 
In this care I think you're off base, Ralphy. I don't know that most women are liberal. Are you talking about women in the US only?
 
To which aspect of women's lives are you referring?
FYI, I've never felt oppressed and if I have I can no way compare it to the oppression blacks feel as I am not black but I doubt women's oppression could compare to slavery or the degradation of riding in the back of a bus.
 
I think that women around the world tend to be liberal as evidenced by their speaking out on social media, especially if they get a chance in some of the patriarchal societies...
 
I think in some societies you could compare how women are treated to how blacks have been treated - including slavery. How about Malala, the Pakistani girl who was shot for speaking out for girls becoming educated and won the Nobel Peace Prize?
 
Ms Sam, you are not treated as poorly in this country as women are in so many countries. Arranged marriages, not allowed an education, voting rights, etc., etc., but even in this country women still have more to strive for, still only making 70 cents on the dollar compared to men for example...
 
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I think that women around the world tend to be liberal as evidenced by their speaking out on social media, especially if they get a chance in some of the patriarchal societies...
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So what kind of Liberalism are you referring to? Liberal in social issues? Liberal in fiscal issues? Liberal in foreign policy... Or any combination of these?
 
QS, all aspects. And, AM, the female ******* mutilization slipped my mind completely as a liberal cause, or just a human one, and then there is the sex trafficking...
 
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QS, all aspects. And, AM, the female ******* mutilization slipped my mind completely as a liberal cause, or just a human one, and then there is the sex trafficking...
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I mentioned FGM as a comparison to how maltreated American blacks were and are treated. It's all relative.
 
Not that relative. It is mostly young black men here that may suffer abuse at the hands of the police, and a lot of them are not innocents, such as those poor girls...
 
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Not that relative. It is mostly young black men here that may suffer abuse at the hands of the police, and a lot of them are not innocents, such as those poor girls...
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I'm referring to the history of American blacks, going back to slavery. They were certainly innocent.
 
In the UK I can't refer to myself as a liberal as that is usually taken to mean a Liberal Democrat (a misleading name for a party) which I am not. So I just say left wing. On a visit to my family in the US, my husband called himself a republican and my family had horrified faces. Means something else here. It means that he is opposed to a constitutional monarchy and wants something like Ireland has. Not sure why my family was horrified as they've always known what his political views were.
 
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If I were a man, I would still be liberal. I would still be a Democrat, as are all three of my brothers.
 
Glinda said:
If I were a man, I would still be liberal. I would still be a Democrat, as are all three of my brothers.
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Me too.. I have read over the entire Republican platform.. There isn't one point I agree with... either on the social issues, or the fiscal issues. So.. my gender is not influencing me... my brain is.
 
From my own observation of all the females that I know or have known, the majority are pretty liberal.
 

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