Thread by @MamurphyMaureen

My thread on Default Patriarchy.

This thread is on a "theme."

It is a given truth that President Biden is a gazillion times preferable to Biden, but that does not mean we are hunky dory.

Biden is a White Male Patriarch and can (same as a Bernie Sanders) be expected to throw women under the bus as needed.

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No, the Navy Seals are NOT being sent in to extract the Afghan Girls Robotics team, who are in very real danger of having their "bridal" virginity sold to the highest bidder them passed around as "damaged good" to a platoon of freedom fighters.

No, the condescendingly-labeled "soft" infrastructure stuff like elder care and child care will ne the first items to be cut during negotiations.

"Women's issues"

Yes, Candidate Biden felt it was his prerogative to shake his finger like an aggrieved Mullah at a young woman who had the temerity to "question" his support of reproductive rights

Don't care for jingoistic odor surrounding ullout, which, to me, lifts "American" pain and suffering above HUMAN pain and suffering.

I was also upset that Dr. Jill Biden amplified this focus. And poor VP Harris got stuck with generic bromide I strongly doubt she wrote.

I am not going to sprinkle rosewater on it. The rescue of vulnerable WOMEN was, and I think WILL be, performative and drop in the bucket.

Bad sign Canada is being chosen over U S. in request for asylum for some high-visibility women already on Taliban "lists". "

Americans have a 3rd grade level of sophistication about our true nature and the world's perception of us.

"preferable to TRUMP:

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