[lbo-talk] we sooo won the culture wars

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Before Carrol, Yoshie, etc. worry that I'm saying we should have voted Dem 
or some crap, let me point out that I'm pointing to the "traffic in women" 
phenom. -- where abortion became a weapon between men who attacked one 
another's position and score points -- which is annoying as all get out. 
AKA Feminists issues are the symbolic "pivotbabe" for the circle jerk.
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At 01:40 PM 3/10/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:

Have you answered my point, which was that the argument that "we've won 
culture wars" is silly on its face since you don't fucking "win" anything, 
ever, in politics.

What has always been annoying is that the argument was trotted out for two 
reasons:

1. to dismiss those who might vote Dem in years that are divisible by 4. We 
were told that no one will ever overturn Roe.

2. to make fun of people who were characterized as, uh, shrill b/c they 
happened to think that we had to fight for roe and academic freedom and 
etc. NOW.

Alas, we were told that we were silly. Repeatedly.

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