"I am a daughter, too." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives brilliant speech about hateful speech directed at women

By her own reasoning, the women who are threatened with rape, sucking dick, violence and called much worse things than a ‘fucking bitch’ on Twitter are also someone’s daughters and wives.
She still caters and supports the trans agenda knowing this.
I can’t believe she can stand up there, give that amazing speech and reconcile it with her own views.
This is why the left come across as lecturing hypocrites.

Wish we had some female MPs with her gravitas (minus trans stuff) here

Gravitas ? Really? I don't get that from her at all. She's a show- off. That oh woe is me , I had to work as a waitress and wear thrift shop dresses speech is ridiculously over- egged.

So so powerful and measured in. Her delivery, i applaud her.
Wish we had some female MPs with her gravitas (minus trans stuff) here
And dont go and give me a warning mumsnet, I’m sick of your judgy attitude

Was that the full speech? Seemed to end a bit abruptly.

Even if I do not like her ideological positions on some things, I appreciate her publicly calling out such abusive and demeaning language used against her and other women.

I still think it's a good speech. It needed saying and I don't really mind what her background is.

I have no doubt I would disagree strongly on trans issues. But let's face it, that speech was about women and how men treat them, no qualifiers needed.

Indeed. Working as a waitress and wearing a dress from a thrift shop is hardly a big deal.

Goosefoot

I was quoting from an article - the words and sentiments may not be mine ....

I admire and like people like AOC and Emma Watson, etc. They believe in human rights, aren’t afraid to call themselves feminists, and to speak up. I identify with them, as someone a few years older.

However as someone a few years older I can see now that actually they grew up pretty sheltered, protectes lives. They believe that it’s their duty to protect anyone with less privelege than them, and by the dogma they’ve learnt, that means trans women. Because be nice / gender >> sex. So they are honor-bound to fight on behalf of male people, despite identifying as feminists. Quite possibly have not experienced abuse by men first hand.

Well meaning, strong, outspoken, and on this particular issue, in fact wrong.

I liked her speech on this. She did a good job of highlighting the misogyny often used against women in politics.

I don't really understand why AOC is considered working class. She grew up in the suburbs with a father who was an architect and had a privileged university education at a good, out of state, private university. She worked as a bar tender and waitress but that's not untypical of middle-class activists in expensive cities like NY.

She's clever, accomplished and articulate. But she's hardly a rags to riches story.

Her politics have a distinct aroma of Marxism, so I'll be watching her upward trajectory with interest and not a small amount of concern.

"I don’t know who needs to hear this right now but one year before Alexandria Ocasio Cortez became the youngest ever congresswoman, she was working two jobs to support her mum, at a charity and as a bartender in the Bronx. She has been trolled for being working-class and not having enough experience, and she has openly admitted to regularly battling imposter syndrome in politics. She was the underdog that the media didn’t take seriously until she won and she is absolutely the type of woman we celebrate and work towards. And if you need any more reasons to love her, read this... 'Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. I wasn’t born into a rich or powerful family. My dad died when I was a teenager. I’ve waitressed my way through hard times and dealt with disappointment. The dress I'm wearing is from a thrift shop. The ring on my hand is my mother’s - a reminder of every floor she's mopped so that her daughter could have a chance.' So the next time you question if you can do something let’s just remind ourselves of everything AOC stands for."

Self serving hypocrite.
Absolutly everything that is wrong with the left right now.

Good speech but I don't trust her. It's her age and lack of experience. Hopefully she gets better with age.

I think I watched the speech open mouthed at her hypocrisy.
I felt the speech was good, but she can’t be unaware of the countless women on Twitter told to suck a dick and die in a fire when they politely raise the glaringly obviously safeguarding concerns around TWAW.

@Goosefoot @DidoLamenting Me too ^.

I was sold on Bernie Sanders, but not her.

She says some of the right things but there is something about her that I don't quite trust. I can see glimmers in this speech where she's coming from a genuine place, but others where the facial expressions seem a little too rehearsed.

Maybe she comes from a good place, and maybe there was more of a backstory to this that she didn't reveal, but I've seen an instance of her before trying to frame something as sexist behaviour, when actually it was part & parcel of how combative men in politics behave towards each other. Because it was directed at her one time, and she's a woman, she automatically framed it as sexism in what I believe was a calculated attempt at making her challenger look worse.That doesn't make certain behaviours ok, doesn't mean she has to accept it, but I feel uneasy about something being pulled into the umbrella of sexism in a possible attempt to make oneself look like more of a victim. There is something quite calculated about that. Sexism and misogyny are quite specific behaviours. Sometimes men are particularly aggressive towards women knowing they won't be punched in the face and that it part of sexism. Some behaviours though are just people - men being general assholes. Sometimes it's a mix or a bit of a grey area.

As far as inauthenticity is concerned, she does seem to have spun the story of her background:

moguldom.com/168625/does-it-matter-if-ocasio-cortez-isnt-really-alexandria-from-the-bronx/

But there is something about her I find inauthentic

Yes, me too.

She's good at impassioned speechmaking, and she's right of course on this issue.

But there is something about her I find inauthentic. The TWAW thing, I can see that might seem different in the US - but I also doubt the extent to which she would step up on speech issues, or democratic process issues, or about the problems of cancel culture. Maybe I' wrong and if so, good. But that's my sense of her and that's a huge issue IMO.

However the BBC has done news articles in the 21st century on why golli!!!! are offensive. As some popular music call women "bitches" they need to explain why in 2020 this is an unacceptable term.

I can understand why people in the US are more supportive of trans people. I think that a lot of the arguments about trans people being incredibly oppressed are probably a lot more true over there. I can see that with someone like Trump in office, everything you do becomes an act of opposition. He polarises opinion and there is little room for nuance when you are fighting someone who is so very black and white.

Here in the UK, I am gender critical. I can quite well imagine that in the US, I might be a trans activist. They are two very different battlegrounds.

I think that's why I feel like face palming ... how can you speak so clearly and sensibly as on that video and have drunk the Kool Aid and believe that TWAW? Jeez.