Meryl Streep

[dissention]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

You equate Gloria's alleged abandonment with a husband's alleged abuse that included holding a gun on his wife to make her perform acts on animals? I don't know how to begin reasoning with that.


- Jake

I don't mean it that way. I mean that Steinem's exploitation of her impacted her life in just as much of a negative way as what her husband supposedly did. Obviously, the acts aren't the same, but the effects of both forms of exploitation are. Where was Steinem and all the other feminists when Lovelace was on welfare and couldn't afford to buy her necessary liver medication? Where were they when she needed a double masectomy? Where were they when she was fired over and over at various jobs? Where were they when she was ebing abused by her second husband? Where were they when she was on her deathbed? Unfortunately, like her first husband, they had already used her for what they could get and let her rot in her misery. They simply didn't care and that, to me is unforgivable after what she had done for them and their cause.