Someone suggested on another posting about the study that it’s not that “more attractive” women suffer from it more often, it’s that male doctors are more likely to listen to a woman they consider attractive.
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I didn’t have time to comment more before work; it is a really good essay about the enabling coward’s lament.
Don’t wait until it’s too damn late; act when you see the first signs of evil taking root.
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Fred over at Slacktivist put it a different way today that I think is a good analogy:
The thing about musical chairs is that after every round there will be fewer places to sit. That’s what you have to remember when any demagogue stands up and says something like this:
Our movement is built on love and it is and we love our families. We love our faith, we love our flag and we love our freedom and that’s what it’s about. And add to that the fact that we love our neighbors and we love our country. Together, we are all united by one fundamental principle. A nation’s first duty must always be to its own citizens. Its own. We got to take care of our own.
The thing about “our own” there is that each time the music stops, the inner circle included in “our” gets a little smaller. The thing about exclusion is that it never stops. The demagogue is saying this, reassuring his worshippers that they’re OK, for now, because, for now, they’re still part of “our own.” Accepting that reassurance is as unwise as it is morally depraved.
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Color me unsurprised. This was always the case. It’s just out and proud now.
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I’m glad they keep getting these scums before they can cause any damage.
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Lots of other plotters being nabbed these days too. Fingers crossed that the nabbers really are stepping up their efforts against domestic rightwing terrorism.
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This is horrifying. I used to think that once a generation of doctors aged out of the system, women might be believed by the medical establishment when they report their symptoms. When I read this last year and realized that if a word-class athlete—who knows her body 100% because it’s part of her job—isn’t listened to in a life-threatening medical situation then women in general, and women of color in particular, are just trusting to luck:
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Just lets you know exactly how entrenched racism is in the US when a very famous and quite wealthy woman of color can’t get the medical care she needs.
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The recurring violence against clinics as well as the recurring incidents of young men who commit these crimes makes me think of two things: fervently believing (maybe damaged?) men in their 20s who act out the religious invective of older religious-establishment people (who never act out themselves, always remaining away from danger while the young men who commit these crimes are either killed or spend the rest of their lives in prison); and this horrific instance, maybe among the first?, of violence against an abortion clinic:
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I don’t know why younger adult men aren’t responsible for their own actions and opinions.
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Sorry, I said this badly; some young men at that age choose to actually follow through on what the authority figures they believe in tell them is the “right” thing to do. Like it’s a mission.
It’s especially pernicious with religion, and the rhetoric of martyrdom/fulfilling a destiny found in some religious dogma. It becomes a socially acceptable form of fostering and promoting hate, in recurring cases to the point of dehumanization and murder.
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It’s the exact same dynamic we see with Islamist terrorists, too.
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More like white nationalists. Other than 9/11, we don’t get Islamist terrorists in the States.
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Well, yeah. But the same thing goes on elsewhere in the world, with awful results.
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They totally are; but I think there’s a valid point in there which goes back to the old adage;
“Old men start the wars, while young men have to go off to fight them.”
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