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In reply to the discussion: From Jezebel: Sexism Fatigue... [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)if they were forced to pay a decent wage for "women's work". Corporations have rights, too, don't ya know? Back in my day, they called it "pin money", which is how the bastards got away with running their sweatshops, claiming they just couldn't afford to give us enough to actually live off of. During the early seventies, one of the small plants I worked for put out leaflets saying that us wild women's libbers were trying to shut the factory down, simply because we were striking for Union recognition (and a ten-cent raise). Of course, that's not all that they called us on those flyers.
Then, there's all of those sublimely satisfied women who somehow manage to sit so comfortably in their subjugation, proclaiming that they're in control, got it good, couldn't be happier, but who will throw a shit-fit, shivering and shaking, at the mere mention that other women might see a need to upset the fruit basket.
And always, there's that simmering supreme infraction that women who struggle for equality are accused of, where conservatives claim we are snatching the very rights of the "unborn" out of our own uteri.