Beto O 'Rourke shows misogyny and not just a problem right

Representative Beto O. Rourke (D-TX) makes his final remarks while Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) listens during a debate at the McFarlin Auditorium at SMU on September 21, 2018 at Dallas, Texas. Tom Fox-Pool / Getty Images

Texas Democrat Ted Cruz's Democratic challenger, Beto O'Rourke, has shown that it's not just conservatives and Republicans guilty of sexism and devaluing the value of women.

The tumultuous news cycle of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford in recent weeks may have led to the controversial appointment of Trump's candidate for the Supreme Court.

However, with polls showing that women are willing to go out and vote in large numbers to make their voice heard by believing victims of sexual assault, it seems that Ford's courageous testimony could still have a dramatic effect on the results. halfway through November.

A news story that may have been lost in the Kavanaugh / Ford article wave over the past few weeks could however be a source of concern for women and their allies who support the Democratic Party in the past few weeks. 39, hope to progress in gender equality.

In early October, Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke was forced to apologize after his "degrading comments" about women, when he was a 19-year-old Columbia student, had been published. by Politico.

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Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke apologizes for criticizing a Broadway musical with actresses "whose only qualifications seem to be their incredibly big breasts and tight buttocks" https://t.co/ XtI0W45Q5S

– POLITICO (@politico) October 2, 2018

"I'm ashamed of what I've written and I'm sorry," said Irish-American O'Rourke, whose polls showed that he was at two. fingers to overthrow the president up, the Republican texan Ted Cruz.

"There is no excuse for making disrespectful and degrading comments about women."

O 'Rourke's comments were formulated in a 1991 study on "The Will Rogers Follies" in the Columbia University student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, in which he criticized the actresses "whose only qualifications seem to be their extremely big breasts and their tight buttocks".

"The show traces the life of Will Rogers, the" lasso madman, "who was no longer an insignificant secondary attraction for one of the most prominent political experts and cultural statesmen in our history," he said. review.

"Yet it is produced and realized in such a flashy, glitzy and ultimately so sticky way that one can not help feeling disgusted throughout the show. Keith Carradine, in the lead role, is surrounded by actresses to smile perma whose only qualifications seem to be their incredibly big breasts and their tight buttocks.

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"However, it should be taken into consideration that I was the youngest person in the crowd at about 60 years old. Even though I thought it was disgusting, most people in this distant and distant generation really enjoyed the show and were very pleased with the performances. "

Although O 'Rourke's comments read as if they were a misguided attempt to call sexism into the series, living in Brooklyn, where Bernie Bro-dom still has not completely gone, it 's less a surprise to me to hear that a liberal – minded liberal – minded man is not a 100% superior feminist. In fact, many of them tell me what I should feel about everything, from Kavanaugh to #MeToo, to gender equality in general, as they talk about me in their quest to show how much they understand their concerns.

O 'Rourke's comments in no way equate to potential sexual assaults that Kavanaugh might be guilty of, but they show that, in many ways, the Democratic Party still has to make giant strides in its own battle for gender equality before we can actually wage war against the right.

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Who should throw stones when their last media darling, O'Rourke, is a striking example of how democratic men are not completely innocent?

As women who want to want to vote in ways that improve our rights, should we simply choose the Democratic Party as the lesser of the two evils, while they have also faced their own allegations of abuse under DNC presidency, Keith Ellison? No matter the demonization of Monica Lewinsky, who, even in Ireland, I grew up as a target to joke, but just contemplated all the injustice of the hand that was inflicted on her.

# Democrat led probe discoveries #KeithEllison the allegations of abuse are "unfounded" and the dems happy to look away. Double standard in believing victims? @WashTimes https://t.co/OC7vjUyqpO

– Sheriff Paul Babeu (@PaulBabeuAZ) October 2, 2018

It seems we have no other choice so close to November 6th, but if the polls are correct and women vote in unprecedented numbers, you can be sure that it will not be just Republicans on the list. priorities before 2020.

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Representative Beto O. Rourke (D-TX) makes his final remarks while Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) listens during a debate at the McFarlin Auditorium at SMU on September 21, 2018 at Dallas, Texas. Tom Fox-Pool / Getty Images