Both movements (BM's?) were and are about advancing Leftist agendas in ways that prevent opponents from opposing them.
Eventually the members might realize it...but by then it will probably be too late.
Posted on 05/10/2020 12:57:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Even amid an all-consuming global crisis, Mrs. America, the new series from FX on Hulu, was guaranteed to become a media event. After watching six of the nine episodes—the only ones available as of this writing—I can attest that the attention is warranted. It’s a lively, superbly acted, cleverly structured ensemble piece about the 1970s battle royal between feminists and Middle American housewives over the Equal Rights Amendment. It has timeliness going for it, too, illustrating the straight line between the populist forces mobilized by ERA foe Phyllis Schlafly and those that sent Donald Trump to the White House 40-odd years later. One not-so-good reason for the series’ buzz, however: underneath the snappy surface, it’s a predictable Hollywood exercise in blue-state condescension. In interviews, Dahvi Waller, Mrs. America’s showrunner and former writer for the hit series Mad Men, has made no bones about being a true-blue, patriarchy-hating, intersectional feminist. She is no hagiographer, though. The show has richly textured portraits of the strong personalities and conflicting ambitions of the first-name heroines of the feminist movement—Gloria, Bella, Betty, Shirley. Bella Abzug, played by Margo Martindale, always shown wearing the congresswoman’s trademark hats, is the realpolitik voice of experience trying to educate the younger political neophytes. Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman and first female candidate for president, is the victim of Abzug-style political pragmatism when she is pressured to give up her hard-won delegates to frontrunner George McGovern. This sort of concession is a familiar occurrence in American electoral politics, but Uzo Aduba’s Chisholm invests the incident with a sense of justified racial grievance.
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Haven’t seen this, but Margo Martindale is an amazing actress!
Hollywood propaganda, what a surprise. Thank you Phyllis Schlafly for protecting the Constitution from The Leftists.
So what haven’t been able to do in 50 years time?
And if it is cheaper to hire women why don’t they?
Why didn’t Hillary pay women on her staff equally?
Both movements (BM's?) were and are about advancing Leftist agendas in ways that prevent opponents from opposing them.
Eventually the members might realize it...but by then it will probably be too late.
There are plenty of women on the Internet for men to look at, in every size, shape, color and...position. Porno is cheap. Always was, always will be.
What about world peace?
...Porno is cheap. Always was, always will be.
“Porno” degrades all that it touches
Beauty is a Profound Gift, and like all Gifts
Understood and used correctly,
Honors the Giver of The Gift
“Beauty Contests” are Dishonorable
Rush Limbaugh’s #24 said it all.
Sounds like standard GIGO to me...
Lol.
The old Miss Americas ALWAYS asked for that. I had forgotten!
There. Fixed it.
I don't see why any man at FR would sing her praise. Her stated goal for stopping the ERA was to preserve the special privileges women enjoyed (and still enjoy). In fact, "STOP" in "STOP ERA" stood for "stop taking our privileges".
In effect, she effectively prevented the amendment that would have made the bias men face in family courts and criminal courts unconstitutional.
All you have to remember is that the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.
It would have been "interpreted" by SCOTUS at some point to allow the biases, because as Orwell put it, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
At the time I would have thought that men would organize to demand change based on the ERA, but four decades of watching men spend billions a year on prostitution and next to nothing fighting for their rights has answered that.
because as Orwell put it, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
The animals that are willing to fight for their equal rights are definitely more equal than those that won't.
And none of this changes the fact that the STOP ERA movement was intended to preserve those biases.
The ERA would never have been interpreted to simply eliminate women’s “privileges”. It would have been interpreted, and was intended by its supporters, to enshrine feminist dogma into the Constitution.
None of this changes the intentions of the STOP ERA movement.
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