Wise woman...

[babylonsister]

[flamingdem]

1. Lovely

So glad she's a voice for sanity

[Aerows]

9. She is a voice for sanity

in a world that seems to think that being insane is, if not a virtue, preferred.

I hope the world wakes up before it does itself in, because we cannot keep going on with three year old mentality ruling it, while it runs around with matches.

I have to think even the conservatives see it at this point, but you never know. Many of them have fallen under the spell of "burn the world down" ideas, as though they won't burn with it.

[Booster]

2. I love Gloria. What a wonderful world it would be if she ran things.

[Kath1]

4. Agree 100%!

If she ever ran for office, she'd have my vote. Strong, opinionated, independent, smart, witty, pro-choice, anti-war and so cool - all the things conservatives hate in a woman. I know, I was once married to one!

[RebelOne]

18. Agreed. Gloria Steinem for president (I wish). n/t

[Kath1]

3. VERY Wise Woman!

I love Gloria! She has been so right on about so many things for so many years - and she is absolutely right about this, as well! I am so glad we actually have a president who respects women and supports reproductive rights. Those rights are in jeopardy if a Republican wins.

[teewrex]

5. Gloria has always been my role model

[Kath1]

6. You couldn't find a better one!

[Aerows]

7. She's right n/t

[AJTheMan]

8. I don't know who Gloria Steinem is or what she is famous for.

It's a pity, I suppose. They don't teach you this stuff in history class.

[babylonsister]

11. Google is your pal! nt

[Hissyspit]

12. Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem

[Ineeda]

13. From your comment,

it seems obvious that you don't want to know, either. So that means you're either incredibly lazy and incurious, or perhaps just trollish.

[CTyankee]

14. How old are you? You might not have been born or been very young

when Steinem was writing and active in the Women's Movement of the late 1960s and 70s. If you go to your local library and look up Feminism in those years you'll find her books as well as many other women authors' works. Fascinating stuff. But be careful. You might find yourself out of your comfort zone. It's pretty heady stuff...

[AJTheMan]

19. I am 18 years old.

[panader0]

20. I'm jealous.........

[CTyankee]

21. OK, so you weren't around for Gloria's heyday. But, boy, was she

something! Drop dead gorgeous in her aviator glasses and long legs. And her long, swingy hair. A lot of women tried to look like her so she was kind of a fashionista but in a very serious way. Progressive men adored her (I can't speak for the RW men of the time since I wouldn't give them the time of day...). Feminists adored her.

It was a great time for the women's movement. We were winning on issues that young women (and young men) today would find hard to believe. For instance, did you know that up until the late 1960s the Help Wanted ads were segregated by sex in the newspapers, so if you were a woman looking for a job you had to look under "Help Wanted - Female"? Stuff like that was going on.

You can probably find some footage on her on YouTube.

If you do some research, I think you'll be amazed at her...

[RebelOne]

23. She even worked as a Playboy Bunny

to expose the abuse of bunnies in the Playboy Club.

[Skidmore]

16. Please read some of her work and look into her role in

the feminist movement. She contributed so much at a time when women had precious few ways to contribute to and participate in American society.

Right now, I'm feeling creakingly ancient to see such a remark. When I was young adult, she was one of our role models. She's not a lot older than me, but much of what she said contributed to the adult woman I became.

[CakeGrrl]

10. K/R

It boggles the mind that people think they're two sides of the same coin.

I only hope enough people get out there and override the voter suppression efforts so we don't find out the hard way that that is not the case.

[Kath1]

15. Another on-topic quote from Gloria regarding this election...

"If you've listened to the Republican candidates in the primary, you know that each and every one of them would criminalize abortion and outlaw quite a few forms of birth control," she says. "Whether or not women can determine when and whether to have children is the single biggest element in whether we're healthy or not, whether we're educated or not, what our life expectancy is, whether we can be active in the world or not." - Gloria Steinem

[Ohio Joe]

22. K&R - nt