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mys_lys's avatar

Sorry, but... no.

This is an astoundingly bad take. It's grossly unfair, it's horribly demoralizing to exactly those Women who've just been dealt a very possibly life-endangering setback in the courts, and it's the absolute worst imaginable kind of dramatic irony—in which two of the VERY few Dem-adjacent members of the press who are actually DOING THINGS are subjected to character assassination, for really no reason other than that they're the only 2 heads above the parapet.

Ms. Dansky's and Ms. Levey's beat has been the threat to Women from trans activism. Considering that the ENTIRE mainstream media has been embargoing any and all anti-TRA, pro-GC, pro-Woman stories in this area for at least two or three YEARS now—no matter how unspeakable the misdeeds of TRAs upon GC Women (personified by the inestimable J.K. Rowling) who have never been anything less than considerate, humane, and measured in the face of all that adversity—this is an outrageously demanding news area to cover.

And yet Ms. Dansky and Ms. Levey—just the two of them—have been doing the work of 20 other Women (approximately 23,117.4 men, at the exchange rate of Thursday e.o.b.), month in and month out, covering this stuff.

Above all Ms. Dansky, who at this point is pretty much the only public voice of reason, or even less-than-complete-insanity, on trans issues in the entire Dem party. She deserves a THANK YOU. End of.

This line of criticism could be repurposed easily enough for any of the countless Dem press or legislators who have done NOTHING productive lately. Smh.

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Laura Kamienski's avatar

There is an assumption that somehow overtakes discussions about abortion in the U.S.. That assumption is that the Democratic Party is where women must turn to to fight for legal access to abortion. It's an erroneous assumption. Like all of the Democrat virtue signaling, women's rights are couched in the context of seeing women willing to fight for the establishment in positions of power is the meaning of diversity, and see, women are now equal. They talk about abortion when it's convenient, like before a mid-term election, but have had decades to codify Roe. Nothing but excuses about why that hasn't happened including the famous Obama line that it's not in his top priorities, despite abortion being a major talking point and major promises during election cycles. I don't believe the democrats are any more in favor of abortion rights (or any women's rights) than the Republicans are. They know they have to show vote periodically to bolster the virtue signalling, but all of their actions say the opposite. The democrats are in an abusive relationship with women, promising they will do better, they'll never to that again and on and on, only to continually do worse and repeat the crimes.

I also agree with the WDI stance that talking about abortion rights now is meaningless when organizations like Planned Parenthood are prioritizing gender affirming care and hormone prescriptions. The "pregnant people" are of little importance in the larger battle to violate women's boundaries and spaces and erode all of our rights. Women's rights is a meaningless concept when women is a meaningless concept, which is is quickly becoming.

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