If the movement had been serious about being serious then the idea could not have caught on that equal is how you feel. Or that how anyone feels about anything matters at all. Men know better. They look at numbers, and here is how the statistics are running years after women first started screaming and yelling and burning bras: We still earn 81 percent of what men do, and an act to make things more fair was blocked in Congress by Republicans. For anyone who doesn’t care to count, but understands traffic signals mixed with policy speculation, I think it’s safe to say that the day is near when a teenage girl will be forced to get a vaginal probe before she is issued a learner’s permit in the state of Virginia. And this is all because feminism has misread its mission of equality as something open to interpretation, as expressive and impressive, not absolute. – 1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible, by Elizabeth Werzel
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Werzel is right, most movements of the past 45 years have morphed from being about something important to being about individual ” feelings ” . It’s the whole ” me ” syndrome that has enveloped this country. Of course it doesn’t take long for the media to co-opt any movement and turn it into a ” happening ” . Next thing you know you have the tee shirts, coffee mugs and group charity events to go along with the corporate sponsorships. To the individual member of this ” movement ” a kind of disassociation takes place in that you know your part of something but don’t really have much to do with it. You slowly but inevitably let people you don’t know make decisions for you because they tell you it’s in you best interest; all you have to do is keep sending the money and that makes you feel good. Of course the powers that be know that all they have to do is stroke you the right way and you’ll do whatever they want. In that way your ” movement ” becomes their ” movement “.
Personally, I have always found heckling rude and annoying.
The speaker is the one we came to hear.
“They look at numbers, and here is how the statistics are running years after women first started screaming and yelling and burning bras: We still earn 81 percent of what men do, and an act to make things more fair was blocked in Congress by Republicans.”
81% is better then it was in 1973 when women got the first real rights that put them anywhere close to having equal say….not that they would FEEL like they had a say…but they HAVE a say. And after more fighting and yelling things have gotten slightly better.
The MAIN thing I take from this is that in spite of those saying it doesn’t matter and Obama and Mittens are the same etc. etc. etc it is the REPUGNANTKLAN/TEABAGGERS who are once again blocking progress.
Joseph Auclair….is that comment meant for this thread or the one about the dickless weasel from that other dickless weasel Tucker the lump of dough Carlson?