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Wounded Bear

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15. Well, I had a mother, have a sister and a daughter...

Thu May 21, 2015, 12:02 AM

May 2015

I try to support women's issues as much as possible, and for me, the really really big thing is not abortion, or pay equality, or education, though those are important.

The really, really BIG elephant in the room problem is that women just don't get the opportunities that men do. Anybody that can't see that is willfully blind. Women end up not having choices, especially when they desperately need real options when dealing with the normal day to day exigencies of life, let alone the big stuff.

I guess I should add that our politics and the economy are so intimately intwined that wresting power from the wealthy class gets harder and harder by the year

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Poverty Is Sexist [View all] sheshe2 May 2015 OP

when I was in Africa I learned that they'd originally distributed aid to the men in the communities bettyellen May 2015 #1

Damn good post bettyellen. Thank you! sheshe2 May 2015 #2

Thank you! What was also interesting about their polygamy was that these women shared the burden of bettyellen May 2015 #7

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Strong Girl sheshe2 May 2015 #4

I loathe the wink wink nudge nudge message of welfare policy daredtowork May 2015 #5

Haven't actually read all of this, but I think poverty.. Wounded Bear May 2015 #8

I want to give you a hug, Wounded Bear. you get it. sheshe2 May 2015 #11

Well, I had a mother, have a sister and a daughter... Wounded Bear May 2015 #15

This is how social justice and income inequality are inextricably linked BrotherIvan May 2015 #9

Thank you, Brother Ivan. sheshe2 May 2015 #12

You too, thanks BrotherIvan May 2015 #16

k and r niyad May 2015 #13

K & R Iliyah May 2015 #14