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Topic subjectRE: I saw Birth of a Nation last night
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13085979, RE: I saw Birth of a Nation last night
Posted by jane eyre, Tue Oct-25-16 10:41 AM
Lfresh and Sarah_Bellum have done God's work in this post. I see Rjcc, too.

I read this post like:

https://goo.gl/nCK5hN

Many men--not all--seem to only know the meaning of loyalty as it applies to a "boys club" charade (which is no loyalty at all, but collusion and betrayal). And some men even have the nerve to shout down or insult the intelligence of women and men who have every right to push back against their own demise. Thank goodness the mediocrity of sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy isn't the rarefied air that all of us want to breathe.

https://goo.gl/vc9Z0n

There seems to be a general lack of empathy for women on this board, fostered, in part, by a warped "some of my best friends are Black" syndrome when it comes to women.