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I'm not a women and i know many of us here are not women, we have no clue how some women feel about the results of this election but we really shouldn't ignore and talk down the large amount of women who are afraid.
It's not a "large amount of women." It's less than 1% of the US population.
yes racism is still rampant but it wasn't, until our new president out in the open and condoned like it was back in Sanger days.
Sigh...it's sad that many people still say things like this. The fact that you think it wasn't is mindblowing.
Racism has been the same as it's been since the 60's. Nothing has changed. Trump had nothing to do with it. In fact, Trump has yet to say anything racist to blacks...so....where are you even pulling these facts? He's the first President who's actually wanted to fund poor areas that most wouldn't even touch.
Because he wants to ban illegals? Is that it? If you give me "the KKK supports him" I'm going to just laugh at you.
So that excuses everything that led up until today? I mean, that's a pretty big deal, if you ask me.
Sanger's been dead a long time. The only reason people drag out this tired old meme is to paint Planned Parenthood as racist. When it is not. Sanger started Planned Parenthood to provide birth control to women. Period.
This is something I've always wondered. Given there are really,really poor families and kids going hungry in Appalachia, not far from where the Judd's grew up why is Ashley sending funds outside of our country instead of helping her fellow countryman.
There are many people in this country in need and yet all these celebrities can do is point to other countries.
Self aggrandizement and self loathing plain and simple...
I said I want to think about America first and someone from Argentina became unhinged and tried to hurt my ears by typing in all capital letters and called me the worst person in the world. She's so out of line that it has even become an inside joke at my house. I'll say it again AMERICA FIRST!!!!!!! We have poor right here. Make everyone stronger and then America is stronger.
No. She literally wanted to get poor black women birth control to depopulate a race that she did not like. That was one of the founding principles of Planned Parenthood.
Product of their time? Racism, homophobia, sexism still exist in 2017 as they did in 1917. How do you excuse that and just dismiss it?
It's always funny when people like you cherry-pick facts to only view them in a manner which supports your cause.
I don't excuse racism, homophobia or sexism in 2017.
I also recognize that Margaret Sanger isn't responsible for anything in 2017.
It's always funny when people like you cherry-pick history to support your agenda.
I know they collectively wasted at least tens of millions of $$$ on a narcissistic temper tantrum march that even transgenders and Blacks are condemning as sexist and bigoted.
Meh, your waste is someone else's activism. You don't get to decide whether the way someone else spends their own money is a waste. You just don't.
I don't excuse racism, homophobia or sexism in 2017.
I also recognize that Margaret Sanger isn't responsible for anything in 2017.
It's always funny when people like you cherry-pick history to support your agenda.
No agenda here. Just when people state facts, don't try to shoehorn it and brush it off like it doesn't matter to some people. Because "nah it was years ago so who cares". Not everyone is a fan of PP because of her. That's all I'm getting at.
Why are people so self centered that they assume speakers at an event they didn't attend were speaking for them?
Speak for yourself and allow others the privilege of doing the same.
I'm all for free speech, which is why I'm not opposed to marches in Washington or elsewhere, protests, etc. That doesn't mean I agree with the tone or delivery or the messengers for that matter. And so what?
I can't control when I was born. All I can control is my own behavior and attitudes and what I do with the opportunities and challenges that are presented to me. So "in spite of being female," I've stood up for womens rights my entire life, and will continue to do so. That being said, I don't feel any compulsion to support vulgarity and hypocrisy from anyone "in the name of womens' rights." I don't get my strength as a woman from vulgarity and hypocrisy and I cringe when I see other women using such tactics and calling it "a march for womens' rights." We don't need to stoop so low and I hate to see women do that.
A hundred years ago, women marched for the vote. There were women who thought they were "vulgar, disgusting, unwomanly..." We got the vote.
Fifty years ago, women marched for equal rights. There were women who thought they were "vulgar, disgusting, unwomanly..." ERA didn't pass but things got a lot better for women.
Now we're marching again. There are women who think we are "vulgar, disgusting, unwomanly..."
It's too bad the rights that women march and fight for are enjoyed by the women who oppose them.
The difference is that in times before there were rights they were protesting for. This time no one can clearly answer a question about what rights they are protesting for. It is clearly a temper tantrum because their candidate lost.
Here I go again.....I support marches. I support protests. I believe even that there comes a point to where people need to start breaking things to get their point heard.
That said I brought my problem with this up last night and not a one would address it. I am told that millions of women around the world protested in support.
Where were these women the last eight years as we bombed women out of their homes killing thousands of them along with their children?
Women around the world were not marching in solidarity because some stupid oaf says stupid things. Women around the world only wish this was their problems.
Where were these women, they were right here. Many of them may have been involved in protests. Many of them may have been working to alleviate suffering. I know some of them in my little corner of the world were trying to get sponsors for refugees, were organizing with churches to send assistance to deal with the refugee crisis. I know some of them in my little corner of the world were trying to help the homeless in my little corner of the world, and were fighting for local laws to protect minorities.
Women around the world marched in solidarity because a new President in the most powerful country in the world was taking office, and they wanted to draw his attention, they wanted to demonstrate their numbers and their passion about human rights issues. If he's going to effect change in the world, these women want that change to be positive and pro-women and pro-humanity.
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