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2 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Yeah I would because I have a daughter and I realize it depends on context.

I can grant you that as a slogan it could be worded better. But what are we talking about here?

Is this a political action, a resistance to the Dobbs decision? A plan to abstain for 5 years, to tank the birth rate enough to force a backtracking of stripping reproductive rights?

I'm all for it. I think it's a good idea. I believe the quickest way to undo this travesty is a firm line in the sand. We will not prop up or participate in a society that requires us to die, vleesibg out in the streets of a hemorrage that could be easily treated. I'd tie it to an economic crash too.

You fascist mother fuckers want to play chicken. Let's play.

Restore Roe, putting it into constitutional law and put the ERA on the books. Enough of this horse shit.

Do it or well fucking bring the whole thing down.

Nothing stopping young men from joining that pledge too. Throw in a demand to end the draft. Permanently. Guaranteed by constitutional amendment. We will not create more sons for the merchants of war to sacrifice on foreign soil to prop up the military industrial complex.

I'm all for it. "Dump all women". It could be worded better too, but ultimately the meaning is more important than a badly worded slogan.

We all know by now that progressive ideas are generally too complex to make slogans easy.

In that context I could get behind those.

Obviously, in other contexts, not so much.

Another "dump all men" I can get behind is based on age. If you're a teenager or a very young woman, "dump all men" could mean not dating or socializing in a romantic context with (grown) men above the age of 25 to yive yourselbes time to fully mature and protect yourself from being groomed by a predator taking advantage of your youth and inexperience. Again, I'd be okay the other way around. For people who grew up in dysfunctional households that left them vulnerable to sexual predators, that might be a damn good idea. Use those years to heal that trauma. I'm all for it. After you've fully mature if you're attracted to an older man or an older woman, more power to you. Your likelihood of ending up harmed because of that age gap during that time of life, under those childhood circumstances is now significantly reduced.

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