Posted on 10/08/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by simpson96
"My name is Alyssa Milano, and I do not have equal rights under our Constitution. I have a three-year-old daughter named Bella. She does not have equal rights under the Constitution, either."
This is how I began my testimony at a Congressional shadow hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) just a few months ago. At that point, I didn't think it could be possible to feel more urgency about insisting that women be protected in our government's highest legal document, the US Constitution. I was wrong.
Now, as I watch Brett Kavanaugh's likely ascension to the Supreme Court, it feels like a new kind of violation, proving we need an Equal Rights Amendment so that our justice system has the tools to treat women equally under the law.
Our country has allowed men like Brett Kavanaugh to use our founding documents to preserve their power and privilege, while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions. That is because, for most of our country's history, the Constitution has treated anyone who is not a white, land-owning man to be a second-class citizen -- a legacy the document has yet to shed.
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I am not asserting that Brett Kavanaugh opposes constitutional equality for women and men, but then again, I do not know. And his actions, I do not trust.
What I do know -- what all of us have seen proven beyond a doubt -- is that our country's 200-plus-year history of subjugating women has come at a devastating price. In recent months, we've heard an outpouring of firsthand accounts about what life as a second-class citizen in this country is like.
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Show us your t*ts, Alyssa! (On second thought, don’t.)
Didn’t she get conned out of her money?
Is that why she’s got so much to say?
Some people dip their toes into the edge of Lake Stupid, while others dive headlong into the deep end.
She has made more money then 98% of the US population and still she complains about not having ‘rights’.
she already has.
ask google.
She must have been teed off when she didn’t have to register for Selective Service at the age of 18.
Oh My God!! My IQ dropped 15 points just reading the first sentence.
I have to ask, does anyone know if she has ever tried to learn reading? There are actual facts out there.
The ERA??? She just arrived from 1973?
"FEMALE SUBJUGATION"? HUNH?
Tax dodger says what?
She obviously didn’t write this garbage. She’s not literate enough to put two sentences together.
She was a child star and therefore has lived in a narcissistic show biz bubble her entire life, with people pretending she is smart simply because she’s pretty. She is simply incapable of understanding the average person would find what she says incredibly stupid if they weren’t working for her or trying to get in her pants
My wife and I both had the same reaction: What rights do we have that she doesn’t?
Sheesh...
Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.So much for waking up to the Big Lie.
— Article 122, 1936 USSR constitution
Women and men have equal rights in the USSR.
Exercise of these rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to education and vocational and professional training, equal opportunities in employment, remuneration, and promotion, and in social and political, and cultural activity, and by special labor and health protection measures for women; by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for mothers with small children.
— Article 35, 1977 USSR constitution
Women in the People’s Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, political, economic, cultural and social, and family life. The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike, and trains and selects cadres from among women.
— Article 48, PRC constitution
“My name is Alyssa Milano, and I am an idiot.”
Ruth Buzzy was a laugh riot tonight.
Fine. Trade me places. I’m a so-called ‘privileged” white male. You get my bank account and I get yours. I get your job and you get my V.A. disability. I’ll take your numerous houses and cars and you get my two year old double-wide and 2005 Ford Freestyle. Deal?
I support someone as stupid as her not having equal rights.
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