General Discussion

This foolish meme started out as a label to smear women as unjustified complainers regarding poor service. It was used to promote the false idea that men do not complain and women are petty. It was used to try to keep women from asserting themselves in the public space-particularly older women who are often rendered invisible and discriminated against in our society and are the p
referred victims of con men because they have already been dismissed by society as of little value.

As some people decided to use it as a gendered term for incidents of visible white female racist behavior it met with much glee on the part of some on DU and has now morphed further into calls for
and promotion of violence against women. It is not just the right that has become more authoritarian in recent years.

Unjust societies which have used fear violence, segregation, otherization, bullying, denigration to bind themselves together and maintain their preferred power structure and status quo do not easily become just societies. First they engage in divide and conquer techniques .and then move to .make sure scapegoating continues by any means possible -as long as our society succeeds in doing this, we never achieve the just society.