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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)27. Women are "living the feminist dream"???
Really? We still can't get equal pay. The Glass Ceiling still keeps women out of power in business and politics. There's no national effort to pass paid family leave in support working women. There's no rush to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In much of America, women have no say-so in what happens to their own bodies, and are even denied contraceptives and access to legal and safe abortion.
Women of color, immigrant women, women of different religions, are all subject to harsher restrictions that limits their choices in education, employment and impairs how their own girls grow up. Women certainly have no guarantees of "knowing they can be anything they want", but rather only what the authoritarian American patriarchy will allow.
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Is this why people are so upset with her? Her scuffle with Obama, while he prefers DAVID BROOKS?
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#30
I like this comment about David Brook's rant, which, who-the-hell-can-understand...
MrMickeysMom
Feb 2016
#45
That's a good one. It IS so uplifting to see finally the media's attempts to 'pigeon hole' people,
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#28
Important info. Its just too bad a Hillary "feminist" put down women, saying they only liked Bernie
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#33
The same restrictions that fall on one demographic group affects all the others.
procon
Feb 2016
#38