Dawn,

I'm mostly away from computer contact and can't give these responses anything like the thought they deserve, but

1. I simply didn't say that feminists are taking this stand because of the results of the Democratic primary.
   
2. The results are not merely "four more years of Republican administration", the results are a new legal regime that, given the relative youth of conservative members of the Supreme Court, would likely last at least 30 years. That is the issue that I had not seen mentioned in the various excerpts from the other board. It's not a four year wait, it's a very likely constitutional change including overturning Roe, but likely extending both in time and in degree of surveillance of women. If you want to make a principled stand in spite of that, fine, but it wasn't clear to me that you (Dawn) were including that element in the calculus.
   
3. I'm not a Democrat.
   
4. I didn't mean to be "scare mongering" -- I mentioned at the outset that it was an extreme example given what I've been reading lately (which, perhaps, would be more evident to folks on BOTF than elsewhere). I tried to be clear that it was meant to illustrate a general point about ideology, not to claim that feminists are Communists.
5. If Hillary had won the nomination and a black person had said, "I'm never going to vote for anybody who isn't black," would you have made an argument parallel to mine?
   

More stuff, but it will have to wait for another time. Sorry again for truncated response.