• 3abas@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Let’s pretend the Queen of England didn’t just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let’s remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.

      It’s more sexist than the implication itself.

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        5 hours ago

        Margaret Thatcher was UK’s Reagan. Everything she didn’t ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.

        It wasn’t because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.

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        It’s also just really fucking annoying that this platitude comes up every time a headline is posted about a woman doing good, as if people are just incapable of thinking it through.

        Neither Clinton nor Harris would have supported this, and in fact, they’d have told their rotating villains to oppose it and claimed powerlessness, as Dems always do. (Which is, in part, why they lost their elections.)

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        I personally think they care way more about losing money and influence than hating women.

        The misogyny is just a side gig.