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  • I disagree. One of the largest groups to swing right were young men, and if you listened to many of their criticisms, they thought Tim was pandering to them which made them think he was disingenuous. If he tries to flip it in the next campaign, he’ll seem even less authentic. If he doesn’t, we’re at status quo. I don’t see that being different for any dem candidate, regardless of gender, without a change in approach.

    I’m not saying their criticisms are right or wrong, but they are voters. Whether we like it or not, we need to listen to them b/c of that fact.

    Even if the candidate was a woman, a genuine attempt to engage with them and find common ground would likely have a better chance at swinging enough of them than if we stick to Tim. However, knowing how people respond to being slighted and pandered to, I’m unsure there’s much of a chance to reach them anymore. But it would still be a better chance if we engaged with them rather than ignoring them.







  • houstoneulers@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldSex Rule
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    9 days ago

    Um, my parents were entirely sex talk averse, but I’ve always practiced safe sex (condoms, birth control, spermicide, sober consent, etc).

    This isn’t the only way to promote safe sex. I learned safe sex as a 5th grader in my sex ed class, and I lived in the bible belt. Let’s not pretend like just b/c some ppl don’t want to talk about sex that it has some sweeping effect. This is an entirely disingenuous argument.

    Not to mention, some ppl have a point not to let just anybody introduce sex to their kids. Sex needs to be framed appropriately so that it’s consequences (and joys) are put in proper context. She has no standards of conveying the concept of sex she lives by other than to be “lewd”. I don’t want kids, but I wouldn’t just introduce the concept of sex using just any medium or “representative”. That’s dangerous.