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dlk

(13,235 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:53 PM Feb 2024

The Alabama SC decision makes clear, it has always been about controlling women's bodies

Republicans are determined to maintain women as a permanent servant class. There’s a reason the Equal Rights Amendment failed.

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The Alabama SC decision makes clear, it has always been about controlling women's bodies (Original Post) dlk Feb 2024 OP
The failure of equal rights amendment led to a lot of this. Walleye Feb 2024 #1
Timidity in asserting women's rights has been costly dlk Feb 2024 #2
Another bdamomma Feb 2024 #3
Our culture too often fails in teaching respect for females dlk Feb 2024 #4
Too bad bdamomma Feb 2024 #5

Walleye

(44,591 posts)
1. The failure of equal rights amendment led to a lot of this.
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:58 PM
Feb 2024

I remember having conversations with other women, they said we didn’t need it our rights were already protected. They couldn’t have been more wrong

dlk

(13,235 posts)
2. Timidity in asserting women's rights has been costly
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 03:03 PM
Feb 2024

They were dead wrong. Tiptoeing around the patriarchy gets women nowhere, as we are sadly seeing.

bdamomma

(69,503 posts)
3. Another
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 03:07 PM
Feb 2024

contributory factor, some men feel very threatened and very insecure by strong independent women who want to take control of their own person.

dlk

(13,235 posts)
4. Our culture too often fails in teaching respect for females
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 03:11 PM
Feb 2024

We’re all in this together and do best when some of us don’t spend so much energy undermining others. There is a long road ahead.

bdamomma

(69,503 posts)
5. Too bad
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 03:30 PM
Feb 2024

I thought we were "grown up's" and respect others, that's what I was taught. Silly me, I was wrong.

Does anyone remember this wacka doddle garbage from Fox news??? I wouldn't entertain the idea that I would even watch this swill. But I remember hearing about this. Sorry it may have a "firewall"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-fox-nation-end-men-explores-science-behind-testosterone-fertility-decline

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