What is this with the right-wing being against Women's Rights?

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It's not just the abortion issue. This is the second time in one week where I've heard a right-winger whine about Liberal's demands regarding women's rights issue. It's as if they know they're losing political ground so now we're hearing their cries of desperation on the issues that are really important to them.

The first time I heard it, my brother-in-law said that Liberals are belligerent about women's rights issues. I asked him which one was he opposed to. He said abortion, but by the end of that debate, I had him agreeing that there are too many people on this planet for the resources we have, which is a big part of the strife we have today, so it was pretty self-destructive to be anti-choice. But he couldn't come up with another example.

And now I just heard Bill O'Reilly's interview with Katie Couric on Crooks and Liars and he said the same thing. Women's Rights. So what rights specifically do they want to take away from women? From what I can tell, they have some pretty feisty ladies of their own which appear to be very feminist in their behavior. I'm sure they wouldn't be too happy having to stand in anyone's shadow.

[TNOE]

1. Desire to revert back to the old days

I'm hearing lots of the baptist (et al) preachers are preaching the women MUST BE submissive to their husbands rhetoric again - and many of them are buying it.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. This was one of the reasons Jimmy Carter made a break with

the Southern Baptist Convention.

http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/20/carter.baptists.ap/

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12. A friend of mine is Southern Baptist and I can tell she's beginning

to think for herself. She knows now that Bush is a disaster, and she knows that people are blaming religious conservative groups for supporting him. She asked hesitantly which groups were oppressive. I didn't want to offend her, so I said Evanglicals. But another friend came right out and said Southern Baptist. I told her that there were Southern Baptist out there who were being told they had to vote a certain way, or they'd go to hell; or atleast, that's the subliminal message that comes across.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. Good question

I know that evangelicals feel that the husband is the head of the household, but I can't see why they would oppose things like equal pay, etc. It isn't like they all are married.

Perhaps because for a while back there women's rights were associated with lesbian issues?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. They have to be careful

Oh, they'll talk about the need for "stay at home moms" but with the economy in the shape its in, how many families can afford that luxury? How many working families would think it a good idea for women's minimum wage to be less than men's?

[MountainLaurel]

4. Or even worse

Those horrible welfare mothers they vilify on a regular basis will want to actually stay home with their babies instead of sending them to cheap daycare for 12 hours a day.

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7. I'm a stay at home mom, and the people who criticize me the most

are women who vote Republican who have to work. Something is topsy turvy and we just haven't picked up on it yet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They want to go back to the good ol'd days

when women had no voice, no vote, no right to inherit, no right to work, mostly go back to 1900

[dflprincess]

6. Like all bigots

they are insecure and need someone to feel superior to. Having to compete with minorities and women on a level playing field destroys their sense of entitlement and threatens them.

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10. Everything they do is about winning advantage over everyone else.

You look at the Bush Administration's tactics. They relied on ignorance from the public to get away with what they did. And believe me, they had many complicit voters. I distinctly remember one Repub who said he trusted Bush and thought it was wrong to ask too many questions before going to war because it gave the enemy too much information. I said, fine, but after the first strike, I would want a thorough investigation to ensure that we weren't being misled. It only took us three years to get here.

[Hardrada]

8. If women everywhere were paid the same as men and had the

same rights, we would no longer have corporate capitalism since it can only prosper on such manifest inequalities,i.e, Guatemalan women ,making 25 cents a day working for US chain stores or product brands.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I believe that their deep seated insecurity has the most to do

with this. A man who is secure about himself does not feel threatened by a woman exercising her right to equality.