War On Women Started When Reagan Was Elected In That ----

[TheMastersNemesis]

Reagan as much as anyone gave the religious right legitimacy. It started with the rise of the Moral Majority. He installed sexism and anti feminism as a force to limit and even destroy the rights of women. The demonization of the women's movement and feminism has been a 32 year war whose aim has been to put women back into the kitchen permanently.

The sub meme of the GOP today is women are only good if they are only having children, washing he dishes and doing the laundry. Everything about the GOP agenda is about completing this part of the Reagan Revolution. And they are making it clear that they will never give up in this quest.

The attack on a women's right to pursue her own testing is centered the removal of womens' ability to control the size of their families. The other meme is that women pursuing careers are irresponsible and unAmerican.

What all this anti women activity means is the next generation of women will have to fight the same battle all over again that their mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers fought.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It wasn't subtle and it was constant.

I remember Reagan addressing high unemployment and he said if "the ladies" would give up their employment and stay home, there would be plenty of jobs (for men).

It was also during the Reagan administration that the WH pulled its support for ERA, saying it wasn't necessary, that women had all the rights they needed without amending the Constitution.

[seabeyond]

2. war on women is two sided. not just the repug party. one to put in kitchen. one to pornify. both

for control and dominate.

[4th law of robotics]

4. You realize not every women's issue comes back to porn right?

And that porn is not actually viewed as violence/rape by the majority of the population?

[seabeyond]

7. you realize it does not do any good to address this issue from only one side....

oh wait, you do not realize nor care. you have ownership in creating.

[4th law of robotics]

9. So . . . Reagan invented porn?

I think if you're going to blame anyone who occupied the White House Gore would make more sense (internet and whatnot).

/wait, aren't these moral majority fundy types on your side when it comes to porn?

//also "you have ownership in creating." . . . what?!?!

[hifiguy]

8. Would you care to name even one Democratic politician

that supports what you are implying?

[hifiguy]

11. <crickets>

I thought as much.

[hifiguy]

3. Dead accurate and well said!

[katmondoo]

5. Yes that is true. I wrote him

a letter telling him to play his Presidential thing and leave women alone. Later when I applied for Social Security they gave me a hard time wanting repayment for the time I collected SS for the children after my husband died. They were 11 and 13 at the time he died. Had to get a lawyer. They were 19 and 21 when Reagan was in office.

[slackmaster]

6. It actually started in 1976 when the GOP platform first included a plank on zygote personhood

That was the year the Republican leadership sold the party's soul out to far-right Christian dominionists. They did that in order to re-build a tenuous majority in the wake of President Nixon's resignation.

[jody]

10. IMO the war started when women demanded they be allowed to vote. nt