Why do far leftists not take women seriously?
Hello hello, it's me again with a semi-provocative post title! I'm in the hospital this week because I just got bottom surgery, so I'm bored and only slightly informed on the news.
I wanted to first ask about all the stuff with Platner that's been going on recently. I don't think Vaush has said anything particularly untoward, but the way that people have been talking about it has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Of course it's meant to damage his candidacy. Of course if I were a Maine voter, I'd still vote for him (I'm vote blue no matter who, baby!) But it also would make me wary to support progressives like him in future primaries, especially progressive men. IF the accusations are true, the way that some on the far left have been dismissing them as "no big deal" or "not actually abuse" just feels...not great. They still have plenty of reasons to continue supporting Platner's candidacy without being so dismissive towards stuff that a lot of women have to deal with from men in relationships.
The other thing I wanted to ask about was the comic/movie Persepolis, which I haven't seen but a lot of people are talking about online now that the artist has recently passed. My friend said we can watch the movie next week while I'm recovering! I don't know why, but a lot of far leftists (ie tankies) have accused it of being "imperialist propaganda" despite its themes mostly being about women's empowerment under a theocratic regime. The way that some leftists talk about liberal feminism, it feels an awful lot like they just don't care about women's rights and just see us as acceptable sacrifices to the leftist cause (the same way some of them talk about trans rights, for the record.) I really don't care that Western conservatives use it in bad faith as a pretext to attack Iran and other Islamic countries - oppression of women is bad! It's not that hard!
So yeah, that was all. If you're a normal leftist who supports women and wasn't saying the things I described, you're cool! But for everyone else, I just have to ask, why???