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Politics, Mature and taboo => Political Pundits => Topic started by: Walkie on July 16, 2020, 07:17:26 AM
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I'm astonished!
according to the NYT:
80 percent of Americans mistakenly believe that women and men are already explicitly guaranteed equal rights by the Constitution. But it currently does so only for the right to vote.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/what-is-equal-rights-amendment.html)
So maybe as a Brit, I can be forgiven for believing the same? Right up to this week.
The Equal Rights Amendment was supppsed to fix that, but basically got derailed by a Conservative woman called Phyllis Schlaffly
(https://www.history.com/news/equal-rights-amendment-failure-phyllis-schlafly )
I personally got the message when I watched the last episode of a new historical drama serial on BBC i-player:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08ggcmd/mrs-america (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08ggcmd/mrs-america)
I was totally expecting a happy ending for the feminists, with Sclaffler finally getting her come-uppance, but to my disbelief, it turned out the other way round. And it seems that American feminists are still working to get the ERA ratified and enshrined in the Constitution, to this very day :zombiefuck:
Now let Al come back here and say that feminism is redundant :grrr:
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I'm not surprised, unfortunately.
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In a bunch of states in the USA women DO have equal rights, with their rapists at least.
In that if a man is convicted of raping a woman AND a child results from that rape, when the man gets out of prison he can apply for joint custody etc.
The situation is changing, but still persists in some US states.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/rapist-custody-abortion/
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That's just so fucked up.
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That's just so fucked up.
Oh, absolutely.
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I'm astonished!
according to the NYT:
80 percent of Americans mistakenly believe that women and men are already explicitly guaranteed equal rights by the Constitution. But it currently does so only for the right to vote.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/what-is-equal-rights-amendment.html)
So maybe as a Brit, I can be forgiven for believing the same? Right up to this week.
The Equal Rights Amendment was supppsed to fix that, but basically got derailed by a Conservative woman called Phyllis Schlaffly
(https://www.history.com/news/equal-rights-amendment-failure-phyllis-schlafly )
I personally got the message when I watched the last episode of a new historical drama serial on BBC i-player:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08ggcmd/mrs-america (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08ggcmd/mrs-america)
I was totally expecting a happy ending for the feminists, with Sclaffler finally getting her come-uppance, but to my disbelief, it turned out the other way round. And it seems that American feminists are still working to get the ERA ratified and enshrined in the Constitution, to this very day :zombiefuck:
Now let Al come back here and say that feminism is redundant :grrr:
What's even sadder is that many of the people in this country inhibiting women from having equal rights are other women. Religion plays a big role too...but fuck, it's sickening.