Posted on 07/02/2022 7:11:12 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemingly painted a colorful link between getting her nails done and the overturn of Roe v. Wade in her latest Instagram post.
Speaking to her 8.6 million Instagram followers, the progressive firebrand emphasized that there is "no act too small" and encouraged her viewers to search for ways to reclaim lost autonomy even when they feel "powerless." Ocasio-Cortez then explained how she was using her manicure as "a personal act of reclamation" and "bodily autonomy."
"Sometimes people will say, ‘There’s nothing I can do, I can’t do, I feel so powerless,'" she said in her Instagram story Friday. “There is no act too small that you can engage in, and even today, I have a personal errand. I need to redo my nails, and I’ve decided that I’m going to use my new manicure as almost like a personal act of reclamation for me and my story."
Recalling her days as a young woman, Ocasio-Cortez detailed how she grew up in "a very religious environment" and was forbidden from painting her nails red because that could be indicative of being too much of a "loose" woman.
"It was very socially conservative, again, like, to the point where I couldn't really even paint my nails red until I pretty much graduated and left the house because there was just a lot of discussion about how red nails, red lipstick - it's just portrays a kind of a message about the kind of woman that you are. And I think a lot of times, that kind of woman which is ungovernable, it often gets translated to 'loose' - is seen as bad or negative," she said.
Now that she has come of age, Ocasio-Cortez said she realizes what it means: "powerful women, bold women who do what they deem...
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Did she need an abortion for her nails as the result of a handjob? Sandy Cortez is goofy.
‘’firebrand’’?
This kid couldn’t drop a lighted match into a sea of gasoline.
“she’d make an excellent “Diversity & Inclusion counselor’’.
That’s true.
Or maybe a member of Congress.
I know and she is just like Biden...full of BS stories. I don’t believe a word she says. All made up stuff. I wonder if she knows Cornpop?
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