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Creepy Republicans keep claiming they need to protect women (Original Post) Quiet Em Jan 2025 OP
their saudi friends claim to protect women as well rampartd Jan 2025 #1
Apparently, a lot of women like that sort of talk Iris Jan 2025 #2
I hate to rec this post, but I can't deny the unfortunate truth. NBachers Jan 2025 #16
Felt the same when I wrote it. I have sadly learned to accept this. Iris Jan 2025 #17
"When someone shows you who they are, anciano Jan 2025 #3
Plenty of gangsters promise protection. DJ Synikus Makisimus Jan 2025 #4
All part of the cynically deceptive MAGA B.See Jan 2025 #5
Ya know SARose Jan 2025 #6
A dime? Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #12
Back in the day there were these things called pay phones. Demobrat Jan 2025 #13
How is a dime and a pay phone Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #19
Yep, boy do I remember those days! calimary Jan 2025 #20
And of course you could always find a pay phone. Demobrat Jan 2025 #23
The Taliban locks women away in windowless rooms to protect them. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #7
yup Skittles Jan 2025 #8
Creating the mirage of a strong, protective,... magicarpet Jan 2025 #9
They're trying to frame and legitimize their evil purpose. Baitball Blogger Jan 2025 #10
Republican's need to protect women drmeow Jan 2025 #11
The only thing we need protection from is them. Demobrat Jan 2025 #14
Yep. calimary Jan 2025 #21
I am smart enough to see Republicans"protection" is just another control the women problem Stargazer99 Jan 2025 #15
DEFINITELY yep. calimary Jan 2025 #22
My stalker said the same thing! Mountain Mule Jan 2025 #18

Iris

(16,346 posts)
2. Apparently, a lot of women like that sort of talk
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:11 PM
Jan 2025

Based on the number of women who voted for him. Mostly white women. I feel like many of us have internalized that crap.

Iris

(16,346 posts)
17. Felt the same when I wrote it. I have sadly learned to accept this.
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 09:54 PM
Jan 2025

I never much fit in with my fellow-white ladies and now I understand why.

B.See

(5,195 posts)
5. All part of the cynically deceptive MAGA
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jan 2025

RUSE of "less government."

Fascism is the ANTITHESIS of "less government."

SARose

(1,343 posts)
6. Ya know
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:27 PM
Jan 2025

my Father taught me how to protect myself.

He used to make me so mad as a teenager. “Do you have a dime?” as I headed out the door. Date or group of friends didn’t matter until the night it did.

Thanks Dad!

calimary

(85,966 posts)
20. Yep, boy do I remember those days!
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:03 AM
Jan 2025

“A dime and a telephone.”

That’s what one of the leading local news anchors extolled during a speech to our local/regional news organization. As in - that’s all you needed to get on the air to report a story from the field. You’d call in, whoever was on the desk took your call and fed you into the open editing booth to record your report.

Then you hung up and went back to wherever the action was, to collect more interviews, get new angles on the story, and enlarge the report in any way you could.

Just keep a dime handy whenever you were in the field, so you could call in and at least do a voicer on whatever was happening. THAT was the key. And THEN you figured out how to feed tape after you’d fed them an initial report. You could also unscrew the phone’s mouthpiece and use your clip leads to feed tape from your tape recorder through the phone to the bureau.

Ahhhh… what memories, what memories. But, gotta say, even I with my limited engineering skills could handle at least that. Besides, you could polish it up with another set of reports after you got back into the newsroom.

Irish_Dem

(68,614 posts)
7. The Taliban locks women away in windowless rooms to protect them.
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:27 PM
Jan 2025

Last edited Sun Jan 5, 2025, 08:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Women are under house arrest for their own good.
And cannot appear in front of windows in their own homes to protect them.

magicarpet

(18,075 posts)
9. Creating the mirage of a strong, protective,...
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:34 PM
Jan 2025

.... caring alpha male who's only mission in life is to keep women safe, comfortable, and happy.

Like Pete Hegseth - djt's nomanee for Sec.Defense. Unless he gets all liquored up and his libido gets out of hand. Then ladies,... run for the hills,... do not stop to catch your breath. Watch out for any date rape drugs going into your refreshments.

drmeow

(5,555 posts)
11. Republican's need to protect women
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 07:53 PM
Jan 2025

from the hazards of thinking, being independent, speaking their minds, and all the other things men have always enjoyed but are simply unacceptable in "the fairer" sex.

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