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So Republicans cut funding within the state. So what? Does that change what the Feds did? No, it doesn't. So your post is just worthless deflection.
Let's see. Mr. "States Rights" Perry cuts funding for womens' health and his legislature, knowing that it will endanger the receipt of federal funding, votes to deny any state funding to Planned Parenthood. Then everyone whines when the feds follow through.
As usual those who revel in victimology are pointing their fingers at everyone but themselves, as if the women of Texas hadn't already figured out for themselves who betrayed them first.
See, the OP is trying to tie lack of caring about women to liberals, and I'd argue that in actuality, his little attempt is a perfect illustration of how TEXAS, and the GOP in particular, feels about women.
"Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign may be over, but his politically motivated war on women continues.
On Feb. 23, Texas' Health and Human Services commissioner adopted a rule in direct violation of a federal Medicaid requirement, effectively ending the Women's Health Program in Texas."
One can reasonably question whether women are better off or worse off than they were 50 years ago. "Liberating" women from their traditional roles and increasing their presence and power in the market place has placed many additional responsibilities on them. Many things have changed for women in the market place and society over the past half century and not all of them can be called "good".
Responsibility and intellectual stimulation IS good, at least to any woman with a brain cell in her head. I have a few very intelligent friends who gave up professional careers to raise their children, and they literally beg me for adult conversation sometimes - LOL. I support a woman's right to choose either a life of working or raising children, but to say our "new responsibilities" are not good is a highly subjective and fairly misogynistic view IMO.
wow, this thread turned into a liberal circle jerk where each one is clamoring over the other to defend the sad state of liberalism that lets rapists and child molesters go free on reduced or hardly any sentence at all. You would think these people here never watched or read any news EVER! There are many RECENT cases where rapists or child molesters were set free by some bleeding heart liberal judge and they committed the same crimes again.
No way. Rapists and child molesters should be excommunicated from the catholic church and spend time in prison right next to the other christian sects of the heterosexual right wing perverts.
One can reasonably question whether women are better off or worse off than they were 50 years ago. "Liberating" women from their traditional roles and increasing their presence and power in the market place has placed many additional responsibilities on them. Many things have changed for women in the market place and society over the past half century and not all of them can be called "good".
That "traditional" role of women is not as set in stone as one might think;
the total subjugation of women was only fully accomplished after Paul took the fledgling Christian Church to Rome and the patriarchal tenets of Roman society became part of Western civilization. Herodotus complained after a visit to Egypt that the women there were in control of some businesses while their husbands did the manual labor...rug making, pottery, etc. Celtic women held property in their own names and were sometimes leaders: Witness Boadicca, who defeated the Romans in England...before her tribe was decimated by them. Some archaeologists theorize that, prior to invasions of Sun God worshippers from the area of the Caucasus Mountains, most of the world was involved in the worship of the Mother Goddess under her various forms. This dates back to Neolithic times; far longer than the roughly 8,000 years that have been devoted to
worship solely of a male deity. In particular, the work of James Mellaart in Anatolia has broadened this field of study. It's only until the late 1600s that members of the nobility and the wealthy began allowing their daughters to read again, and it has been a long road to the freedoms which women are beginning to enjoy. Who knows what we might achieve if given another 10,000 years of freedom? Perhaps people might accept the notion that the sacred has both a masculine and a feminine side, or even acknowledge that the imbalance of respect between reverence of both aspects is in part responsible for the imbalance and lack of harmony
seen in the modern world.
Responsibility and intellectual stimulation IS good, at least to any woman with a brain cell in her head. I have a few very intelligent friends who gave up professional careers to raise their children, and they literally beg me for adult conversation sometimes - LOL. I support a woman's right to choose either a life of working or raising children, but to say our "new responsibilities" are not good is a highly subjective and fairly misogynistic view IMO.
Democrats? Plural? Name me one other "Democrat" going after Ann Romney, who is fair game, by the way, since Mitt admits he relies on her advice about women as he wopuld any other advisor. There was ONE pundit. Singular.
Suggest you go to twitter and you'll see
Also did you ignore the Obama admin pays women less on purpose.
Also lets not act like the left didnt go after Palin for being a working mother and how she shouldnt work to take care of her disabled child. Heck Bristol is even attacked for being a single mother. Thought the left was all for that sort of behavior minus the taking responsibility for your child
You or anyone else can pretend this stuff doesnt come from the left but it does.
Democrats? Plural? Name me one other "Democrat" going after Ann Romney, who is fair game, by the way, since Mitt admits he relies on her advice about women as he wopuld any other advisor. There was ONE pundit. Singular.
The woman who made those comments was speaking for herself, not the Democratic Party nor Obama.
In any case, she was commenting on Romney's claiming that his wife shares views about the economy with him. The critic was making a comment about how preposterous that was as Ann Romney has no particular insight into the economy from a woman's perspective. Ann was always a stay-at-home mom, married to an extremely rich man. She had never had to worry about, shopping within a budget or how much groceries cost at the store -- if she even shopped at the grocery store or had hired help to perform that function.
But I agree with President Obama's view, spouses are off-limits in campaigns.
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Also did you ignore the Obama admin pays women less on purpose.
Also lets not act like the left didnt go after Palin for being a working mother and how she shouldnt work to take care of her disabled child. Heck Bristol is even attacked for being a single mother. Thought the left was all for that sort of behavior minus the taking responsibility for your child
You or anyone else can pretend this stuff doesnt come from the left but it does.
The Obama Admin doesn't pay women less for the same job. In fact, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows workers to sue if a pay discrepancy exists between a man and a woman, was the first bill signed into law by President Obama.
The Democratic Party didn't go after Palin for being a working mother. They went after her for being a pin-head way over her head as a VP candidate. Bristol wasn't attacked for being a single mother. Her mother was criticized for hypocrisy -- making better-than-thou family values speeches while her own daughter is doing what Mom is preaching against.
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I have a few very intelligent friends who gave up professional careers to raise their children, and they literally beg me for adult conversation sometimes - LOL. I support a woman's right to choose either a life of working or raising children, but to say our "new responsibilities" are not good is a highly subjective and fairly misogynistic view IMO.
