This (vile, ignorant) woman just derailed the Equal Rights Amendment yet again

[CousinIT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/this-woman-just-derailed-the-equal-rights-amendment-yet-again/2019/01/31/9e32ec22-2551-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html

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Meet the new Phyllis Schlafly: Victoria Cobb, who says she achieved all her success before reaching her 40th birthday without help from any amendment, so the rest of American women don’t need it, either.

“I’m a third-generation opponent of the ERA, actually,” she told me, when I asked her if she’s today’s Schlafly, the ultraconservative woman who led the charge in derailing the amendment in the 1970s by convincing America that women would be drafted into combat and toilets would all be unisex if the amendment passed.

... Virginia was poised to become the 38th state to ratify it, filling in that three-quarters majority of states required for it to become official. In Richmond, the GOP-led Senate passed the ERA bill earlier this month. And celebrities, lawmakers and activists were touting its revival on Capitol Hill in Washington.

But then a tiny subcommittee in Richmond — the House Privileges and Elections subcommittee — voted along party lines to block the amendment from reaching the House floor after heavy lobbying from Cobb, president of the conservative Family Foundation of Virginia. (Among the yes votes were two men, by the way. Yay, men!)

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Her life has not included single motherhood while working the swing shift at a diner, the boss who grabs your butt and will cut your hours if you resist, a pregnancy that could kill you and leave your four children motherless, parents who kicked you out, or a husband who left and skipped child support.

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These women occupy a very privileged place in American society, and they hold up their very tidy lives as proof that the ERA is unnecessary.

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But plenty of women don’t have her advantages, or the advantages that many white, middle-class women in stable families and marriages have.

[UpInArms]

1. Why is there always another?

I got my red shoes 👠👠 out for Schlafly’s passing

Grrrrrrrrr.

[Honeycombe8]

2. A vile woman.

She says,

“Did my grandmother, while opposing the ERA, envision that I would someday lead an organization, earning the same pay as my male colleagues, while having four children with associated maternity leave and a permanent family-friendly schedule? Probably not. But did I do it without the ERA? Yes, I did,” she said in an editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last year."

Yes, she did all that without the ERA. But she did NOT do it without the equal rights MOVEMENT, and her connections, and her background.

She has paid maternity leave ONLY because of the equal rights movement. Before then, maternity leave wasn't paid for, AND WASN'T INCLUDED IN INSURANCE PLANS, since it wasn't considered a medical condition.

A family friendly schedule? Only if you hold an important position in a company do you get a family friendly schedule, and you are important enough that the swipes behind your back for goofing off while others are working, doesn't hurt your job.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Yeah, she got all those benefits NO Thanks to her scrawny grandmother, and her, but despite them

Someone else did the heavy lifting to get her those benefits. She just makes money off of making the fight so difficult for others.

If she follows her scrawny grandmother and her reasoning they shouldn't be getting any of those benefits...give them back.

[erpowers]

20. +1

Yes, you are right about the fact that she lives off of an benefits from the work of others. She has the things she has because of the work other did, which was work that women like her grandmother tried to prevent. It is likely that if the country was still fighting over issues like maternity leave this woman would be fighting against that issue.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Another Idiot Extrapolating...

...from a sample size of 3.
What an entitled buffoon!

[magicarpet]

4. Well I am so very ecstatic Ms. Cobb's,...

..... shit smells like Jean Nate.

Must be such immense pleasure for her nostrils.

[The fucking selfish bitch....]

[barbtries]

13. my response exactly.

very pleased with herself and fuck everyone else. republican i assume.

[treestar]

5. Typical right winger

It is all about her and her alone? She does not even have the brains to imagine maybe it could be different for someone else?

And even so, what would be wrong about the ERA?

[ego_nation]

6. The biggest difference between liberals and conservatives

comes down to which way the arrows are pointing when when we relate to the world around us. Liberals are more likely to related themselves to others (I.e. empathy), and conservatives are most likely to relate others to themselves. If they either don’t experience situations the way others do, it’s irrelevant.

[Roadside Attraction]

7. She had help . . .

Cobb was aided by another privileged white woman, Margaret Bevans Ransone, from the tiny rural Virginia hamlet of Kinsale in Westmoreland County.

Ransone is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates where she "represents" the 99th District. The Virginia General Assembly has two houses: Senate (40 seats, 21 R, 19 D); and House of Delegates (100 seats; 51 R, 49 D).

Ransone is a subcommittee chair in the HOD Privileges and Elections Committee, chaired by another rightwing Republican, Mark Cole. The P&E Committee is where Republicans send bills they don't like to die -- Cole or Ransone simply kill them.

Ransone was born on third base and thinks she hit a triple. Her district is bordered by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers (north and south respectively) and the Chesapeake Bay on the east. Her family -- Bevans -- controls the oystering business in the area. If you want to be an oysterman, you must go through and work with the Bevans family. They also control a lot of oystering business in the Gulf of Mexico.

She grew up "working" in the family business -- if you can call being the privileged princess of a wealthy family "working."

Democrats in her district are disorganized and have not been able to raise a viable candidate since Albert Pollard stepped down 10 years ago, leaving the field to 99th District Republicans.

She was last elected in 2017, defeating a weak Democrat, Francis Edwards, who is challenging her in the upcoming Nov 2019 election. Edwards doesn't stand a chance -- because :
-- he's a "come here." A lot of people retire to this area because of the low taxes, rural living, and waterfront property. There's a real split between "born here's" and "come here's." Come here's do not get elected to anything.
-- he's a Brit. Born in Great Britain, moved to the US as a child, still speaks with a British accent.

Ransone doesn't bother to campaign . . . unless you consider showing up every other year at a few Republican dinners and oyster roasts, kissing a few babies, posing with local sheriffs and oystermen . . .

I'm a Democrat and a come-here living on the Potomac in one of her counties; been here 12 years. She refuses all our invitations to meet with us on ANY topic.

In speaking against the ERA, Ransone said "God made me equal, I don't need and amendment."

She dismissed me when I told her: "God made black folks and white folks equal but it took 200 years of slavery, a civil war, several Constitutional amendments and a whole body of civil rights law to enforce that equality."

[erpowers]

21. Many People Do Not See Her As Equal

God may have created her equal, but many people do not see her as equal. Therefore, she, like everyone else, needs government and amendments to force people to treat her as an equal. Women would not have the rights they have today people, especially women, had not fought for those rights. These women would likely not have the right to vote, or serve in an elected body if people, especially women, had not fought for women to have the right to vote and run for office.

[Fla Dem]

8. Typical RW Republican..." I got mine so FU".

But even with that, why does she not want women to be on an equal footing with men? RW Republican evangelical?

In fact, Cobb pegs most of her anti-ERA crusade on abortion, convincing folks that somehow, if women were to finally be included in the constitution, it would mean all kinds of public money would be funding abortion.

In this picture she may as well be giving the 3rd finger to women.

[dlk]

9. The Sad Truth is that Misogyny Infects Some Women, Too

As ugly as misogyny is, this level of betrayal, by a woman, is particularly ugly. She is completely ignorant (or really doesn't care) about the countless ways her self-righteous and judgmental beliefs harm other women.

[Farmer-Rick]

14. I know, I see it here among the rural poor too

She is just like these poor white trailer loving women around here, only she has money.

I think these women think if they side with the devil the devil wont come after them. Women who attend white supremacist rallies and think those white racists are going to protect their white racist ass.

But if you notice the only one to die in the Charlottesville Nazi rally was a white woman.

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[mcar]

10. This makes me so angry

[calimary]

12. Oh for fuck's sake... another Judas goat.

Another woman who uses the benefits hard won by earlier women’s rights activists - to SCREW all other women.

[Farmer-Rick]

15. Good description

[Scruffy1]

16. Just another Bible thumping grifter.

The only job she's ever had is President of the Family Foundation of Virginia. Get the rubes to hand over their dollars to her. I can see the letters in the mail already explaining how she saved the planet so send in your dough. The Foundation list her Salary as $110,000 and I'm sure she gets other perks. Not bad for a part time job.

[hotrod0808]

17. Republicans are good at

always finding The One, meaning, the single person that a new law doesn't affect. The find The One, give them a platform, tout the story of The One as if it were a story of all marginalized people, and then let Right-Wing media tear the law down line by line. And it works almost every single time. We need to just blast them with multiple true stories like we did with ACA, and make sure that The ERA passes.

[UTUSN]

19. K&R

[erpowers]

22. Vote Them Out of Office

The people of Virginia should just vote the people who voted against the ERA out of office.

[Atticus]

23. This is classic Republicanism: "I've got mine . To hell with y'all. " nt