Posted on 10/27/2017 11:35:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton, Ashley Judd, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and other media powerhouses had a strong message for men and women alike. As the marquee honoree at the annual Women’s Media Awards, former Secretary of State Clinton, put it best: “I don’t intend to be silenced.”
The Women’s Media Center, which aims to support women in the newsroom, honored Clinton, Fonda, and Judd, on Thursday at Capitale in New York City, for their contributions toward women’s rights.
Fonda and Judd called for women to seize the moment and focus on making lasting change. Judd, one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, was fresh off her first TV interview since speaking out about the producer to the New York Times. Her accusations in many ways set off a tsunami of women coming forward with their own horror stories of abuse at the hands of Weinstein, director James Toback, and other prominent figures.
“I was sitting around last Sunday with Gloria [Steinem] on FaceTime, and she was reminding me of the typical strategy sexual predators stick on us. They deny us, attack us, and reverse the order of victim and defender,” Judd said. “We’ve been able to talk about shame … and, especially in groups of strong females, we’re able to take that shame and put it back where it belongs, on the sexual predator.”
Center co-founder Fonda said she hopes the conversations in Hollywood will affect women in other industries. She pointed to Silicon Valley’s tech sector and the restaurant world as two industries where more and more women were feeling emboldened to speak up.
“It shows how vast the problem is. It’s not just an occasional issue with some guy. It’s an epidemic of an issue,” she told Variety. “I want more women to not be afraid to step forward and say what was done to them, and enforce laws and policies that will stop this from happening, and put offenders in jail, because it is a crime.”
“I ran into people, both women and men, who thought sexism, the struggle for equality was a thing of the past and ancient history,” Clinton said of her presidential campaign. “What a difference a year makes. The past 12 months have proven that the struggle is just as urgent and vital as ever.”
Clinton has been in the hot seat this week after the Washington Post reported that as a presidential candidate, she used campaign funds to pay for research into then-candidate Donald Trump’s connections with Russian donors. Despite the headlines, the former First Lady offered yet another sweeping condemnation of the White House, this time zeroing in on what she called an attack on women’s reproductive rights.
“There’s an all-out assault on truth,” she said. “There is no such thing as an alternative fact. When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like for example the size of the crowd at an inauguration, it’s more than frustrating, it’s subversive to democracy.”
She highlighted record low abortion rates, declines in teen pregnancy, and more as reasons to uphold women’s health-care and pointed to conversations happening across industries as reasons to continue to fight. The former presidential candidate accepted what the Center called its first and only Wonder Woman award.
Additionally, the night also honored reporters April Evans, Maria Hinojosa, and Maria Elena Salinas. Gail Tifford, a Unilever marketing executive, was also recognized.
Ya know...it’s too little, too late from all these beeotches. They enjoyed their years of promiscuity, their multiple abortions, their lives as the free and hot gals. Now let them live their middle age and old age as bitter, regretful women, blaming everything on the men. They are so transparent!
I am woman, hear me BORE.
These women are jokes. Especially Ashley Judd. She’s a whacko. Her p**sy hat rant, then being silent for years about being sexually assaulted. She was silent when it helped her career. Hillary silenced women when it helped her greed and ambition.
Frauds. All of them. They have done nothing for women.
I’m always happy to find a Jane Fonda urinal target.
“...former Secretary of State Clinton, put it best: “I don’t intend to be silenced.”
LOL!! You were pretty damn quiet when your “husband” was on everything with a skirt. They deserved to be believed, right Killary? Have a cigar, a high ball and head back into the woods. There’s a rock for you to crawl back under.
Hanoi Jane doesn’t intend to be silenced. That’s fine. I don’t intend to be listening to her anyways.
Yeah, Hillary...and don’t forget to send one of your flunkies to leave dead cats at their doorstep! Hillary is the perfect Halloween Witch!
A-holes that don’t even deserve to be considered ‘ladies’.
Judd’s mother is nuts.
“I don’t intend to be silenced..I will achieve that by silencing all who disagree with me. /s
From what I have read, Jane Fonda’s dad, Henry, was quite the molester of women. Many women complained about him back in the day.
Ashley Judd’s politics are garbage - but she’s still easy enough on the eyes.
I’ll give her a free pass for now.
Ah, the irony of having the enabling wife of a Face Biting Rapist be a headliner at yet another pissy Feminazi gathering!!! LMAO!
I’d chalk up their foul moods and craziness to PMS hormones, but all of them are post-menopausal.
Hormones are not the issue, they’re just down-to-the-bone mean and nasty.
Karma B*tches!
Well, it's pretty apparent that there are lots of important Democrats who want her silenced, and the way things are breaking, that may very well happen.
The Tom Perez/Kamala Harris/Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders faction know perfectly well that as long as she's in the news yapping every damn day, their electoral chances are near zero.
And there are swamp creatures, many of them, Republicans and Democrats alike, who want her silenced - permanently - so they don't go down when she does.
Who will rid us of these troublesome shrews.
hiliary strongly relates to Treasonous types.
Sadly well said. This is exactly what I was thinking. These women lived as you say. Their natural lives are now nearing an end. I am always flummoxed that such people at this age aren't more circumspect about their eternal future.
After poking around for a year, Hilliary “The Grifter” Klintoon has found a new target that looks ripe for “the grifter” to pluck.
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