been my experience that most professional women, including those who work on Wall Street, consider themselves feminists and staunch Democrats for several reasons. Abortion is one; the party\u2019s long-standing commitment to gender equality is also high on the list. Times may be changing, I suspect. Last week I did a series of interviews with women who work in finance and run businesses about our increasingly bizarre political climate. Here\u2019s what was top of mind. They can\u2019t understand the relative silence or muted forms of condemnation displayed by those they had long admired \u2014 major leaders of the feminist movement and far too many top Democrats \u2014 on something so obviously heinous and toxic that it deserves immediate and emphatic denunciation: the rape, torture and murder of Jewish women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These possibly soon-to-be lapsing feminists say the silence is so deafening among people they once considered comrades in arms that while they may not be ready to pull the lever for Donald Trump 2024,\u00a0 they\u2019re getting suddenly close. The true brutality of the Oct. 7 massacre of Jewish women, men and children by Hamas goons has been largely muted in the mainstream media. If you want to be disgusted and horrified by the reality of the slaughter \u2014 including the rapes of the living and dead \u2014 it\u2019s easy to find on social media. I\u2019ve been talking with professional women who went there. They have simple and obvious questions: Why aren\u2019t more leading Democrats telling the world that rape is never OK, even when it\u2019s committed by thugs its progressive wing deems oppressed? And where are people like Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem and other leading feminists, strongly decrying one of the most heinous crimes against women in modern history? Steinem declined to comment and Obama didn\u2019t return emails for comment; and while a simple Google search will show that they have made a few statements about Oct.\u20097, it\u2019s also reasonable to conclude they are pulling their punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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