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Hillary, Ashley Judd, Jane Fonda Unite at Women’s Media Awards: ‘I Don’t Intend to Be Silenced’
Variety ^ | October 27, 2017 | Margaret Sutherlin

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: babykillers; bitches; fonda; hillary; hollywood; mariahinojosa; proabortion; weinstein
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To: Bonemaker

“What did she say?” Asks Satan...


41 posted on 10/27/2017 12:30:03 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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“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


42 posted on 10/27/2017 12:37:18 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The most barf inducing thing I’ve read in a long time, just seeing those names strung together in one sentence. Beyond disgusting.


43 posted on 10/27/2017 12:46:00 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left eating its own again.


44 posted on 10/27/2017 12:51:34 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let the purge begin,,
turn yourself in now,, or we will hunt you down with extreme prejudice..


45 posted on 10/27/2017 1:15:01 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To the Empty Barrel feminists, I have something to say:

Shut up and make me a sandwich.

46 posted on 10/27/2017 1:34:35 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary: “I don’t 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!


47 posted on 10/27/2017 1:37:35 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MplsSteve
It’s not just her politics.

When it comes to being a bitch, she goes to the head of the class.

48 posted on 10/27/2017 1:47:45 PM PDT by daler
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To: Autonomous User

A ménageàtwat of nasty broken down old sluts and washed up hags and wrinkled whores.


Yep.


49 posted on 10/27/2017 2:11:58 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: MplsSteve

Ashley Judd’s politics are garbage - but she’s still easy enough on the eyes.

I’ll give her a free pass for now.


You must be nutcase like she is.


50 posted on 10/27/2017 2:15:16 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: Bonemaker

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.


51 posted on 10/27/2017 2:25:02 PM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh please you were silenced when your mouth was full


52 posted on 10/27/2017 2:25:41 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Maverick68

I agree. I absolutely agree!


53 posted on 10/27/2017 2:26:42 PM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary, Ashley Judd, Jane Fonda Unite at Women’s Media Awards: ‘I Don’t Intend to Be Silenced’

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.

54 posted on 10/27/2017 4:07:03 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: DefeatCorruption

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.


55 posted on 10/27/2017 8:27:34 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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