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 Womens Media Awards, former Secretary of State Clinton, put it best: I dont intend to be silenced.
The Womens 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 womens 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. Weve been able to talk about shame and, especially in groups of strong females, were 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 Valleys 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. Its not just an occasional issue with some guy. Its 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 Trumps 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 womens reproductive rights.
Theres 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, its more than frustrating, its subversive to democracy.
She highlighted record low abortion rates, declines in teen pregnancy, and more as reasons to uphold womens 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.
“What did she say?” Asks Satan...
“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.”
Well said
The most barf inducing thing I’ve read in a long time, just seeing those names strung together in one sentence. Beyond disgusting.
The left eating its own again.
Let the purge begin,,
turn yourself in now,, or we will hunt you down with extreme prejudice..
Shut up and make me a sandwich.
Hillary: I dont intend to be silenced.
I hope not ... continuously running her whiny loser’s mouth is almost guaranteed to be hurting the Democrat party. The fake stream media refuses to accept that Hillary lost and have therefore elected Hillary as the spokesperson for the Democrats, and have allowed her whining and yammering to suck ALL of the oxygen out of the media leftosphere, so none of the other up and coming leftists can get much publicity.
So, I say, keep up the good work Hillary, and by no means allow yourself to be silenced!
When it comes to being a bitch, she goes to the head of the class.
A ménageàtwat of nasty broken down old sluts and washed up hags and wrinkled whores.
Ashley Judds politics are garbage - but shes still easy enough on the eyes.
Ill give her a free pass for now.
She must be kidding/ I can’t wait for her to be in prison...how long will people be interested in what she has to say? I am not interested now. She is a crook and from what I have heard and read very carefully she has instigated a number of deaths. Who wants to know someone like this? I think only those who study psychopaths.
Oh please you were silenced when your mouth was full
I agree. I absolutely agree!
As I recall, all three of you were silent when you had a chance to speak out. Two of you admitted to regretting not speaking out, and one of you tried to destroy the reputations of your husband's accusers.
But then again, the men who had a chance to speak out against the Catholic Church's abuses and at Penn State were also silent, so I guess we all need to learn from this.
Ashley is seriously mentally ill. She has been institutionalized several times.
If you believe everything she says, she is the most sexually harassed, molested, assaulted and raped woman that ever lived.
In Ashley’s world, everything is rape. Lumber harvesting is rape. Coal mining is rape. Drilling for oil is rape. Everything is rape rape rape.
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