Rubios fake family leave plan comes from a fake womens group
REBEKAH ENTRALGO at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/pseudofeminst-group-marco-rubio-paid-leave-5f27056f65d1/
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The IWF’s anti-women beginnings
The IWF grew out of “Women For Judge Thomas,” a group a formed in 1992 during Anita Hill’s testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, who faced allegations of sexual harassment.
Even after Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court, the IWF continued to fight Hill. While Hill recounted her experience with Thomas at a conference, the group’s co-founder Ricky Silberman held a counter protest at the Federalist Society, where she said Hill’s “unsubstantiated charge of sexual harassment launched the mother of all gender wars.”
The pseudofeminist conservative darling lobbied against then-Sen. Joe Biden’s “Violence Against Women Act,” saying “wives instigate violence, including severe violence, against husbands more often than husbands do against wives.” The IWF also criticized Equal Pay Day as a “fictitious ‘holiday’ liberal women’s groups have manufactured to try to expose the so-called ‘wage gap,’” and opposes any legislation that will “convince women that society, and especially the workplace, is unfair to women.” And the IWF asserted that sexual assault on campus is an overblown issue, given that it is “inherently incredible” that female college students “are unable to report assaults to authorities.”
The IWF has defended Rush Limbaugh
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The IWF has repeatedly defended right-wing talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh for his misogynistic comments. In 2012, after Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke — a Georgetown Law School student who testified in favor of a contraception mandate before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — a “slut” and prostitute, the IWF responded by accusing anti-Limbaugh feminists like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda of wanting to silence and censor him.
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