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Stinky The Clown

(67,766 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 10:02 PM Sep 2019

I sincerely hope America's younger daughters are watching the women LEAD the way.

This whole period in time has been the era of Badass women. Quiet and resolute. Smart and fearless. Nurturing and punishing.

Showing the way.

From presidential candidates to elected leaders to punditry and analysts to young activists. Going where they were never wanted or allowed. Saying what no one wanted to hear and many wanted to listen.

The poignant, righteous emotion of Rep. Veronica Escobar after her El Paso constituents and international neighbors were killed. The stoicism of Dayton mayor Nan Whaley. Emma Gonzales, just into her full womanhood, leading the way to neuter the NRA. Five of the seven Security Freshmen op-edding the House to impeachment hearings were women. The record number of women running for president - and one of them now leading. We need only look around to see them.

Role models, all. Never have our daughters had such substantial examples of where the top of the mountain is.

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I sincerely hope America's younger daughters are watching the women LEAD the way. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Sep 2019 OP
Why play identity politics? TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #1
maybe because Skittles Sep 2019 #2
Thank you. Nor did I. Nor did my wife. Nor did the many women friends I have. Stinky The Clown Sep 2019 #3
You are, of course, correct. TomSlick Sep 2019 #4
Love me some bad(ass) girls. safeinOhio Sep 2019 #5
I hope they're watching our targets too. NCLefty Sep 2019 #6

TheRealNorth

(9,471 posts)
1. Why play identity politics?
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 10:11 PM
Sep 2019

There are a lot of Democrats, regardless of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and religion that have been standing up to Trump and his GOP enablers.

Posts like this make no sense to me unless you wish to create divisions.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
6. I hope they're watching our targets too.
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:40 AM
Sep 2019
"Trump administration pushes UN to drop mentions of reproductive health from official documents"

US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is encouraging world leaders to expand access to health care without the inclusion of terms such as "reproductive health and rights." He delivered these remarks at a high-level meeting on universal health coverage during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Monday.
President Trump and the politics of abortion

The Trump administration, along with some other countries, is pushing for the United Nations to oppose "ambiguous terms" relating to sexual and reproductive health in policy documents, because such language could "promote practices, like abortion," Azar said.


Your reproductive rights are "ambiguous" to them, ladies. And we have 2 NEW religious conservatives on the Supreme Court.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/23/health/alex-azar-united-nations-universal-health-coverage-bn/index.html
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