Comments | amelia_eve: International Women's Day

amelia_eve

International Women's Day

Mar 08, 2012 11:24

Happy International Women's Day! We need it now more than ever. On the one hand, I am excited to see women getting together and showing our effect on issues like boycotting companies that advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show. On the other hand, I am deeply saddened that recent politics have been so violently targeted at sabotaging rights we fought ( Read more... )

holidays, politics, gender relations, feminism

Comments 5

f4f3 March 8 2012, 16:26:03 UTC

I will try to stop being the Patriarchy. At least for today.

amelia_eve March 8 2012, 18:07:00 UTC

Thank you. Like most things, it is best done one day at a time.

greydruid March 10 2012, 02:05:26 UTC

Here's a little quibble: some of those rights, abortion especially, were never won. They were handed to you as a gift from some guys in robes. And so the people on the other side feel like they've been unfairly silenced before being heard, and that's why they're thrashing their way into their fifth decade of not-being-able-to-get-past-it.

Imagine if SCOTUS said the Constitution was alive and it told them that women were second-class citizens from now on. Sure, it's not anywhere in the writing (except when you squint carefully), but the Constitution is magic and speaks quietly to them in their dreams, and now you just have to shut up and live with it because the Great Constitution has spoken!

I'd bet you'd be angry for a few decades, too. ;)

amelia_eve March 10 2012, 13:31:39 UTC

I don't see how it is that a Supreme Court decision doesn't mean people did not fight to get the case heard and to create an environment in which the Court's decision might go their way. Public morals evolve as do human rights. The Supreme Court decided both Dred Scott and Brown v. Board of Education. Times change and so do interpretations of law, often through active consciousness raising. The Court does not operate in a vacuum, and both sides have an equal opportunity to argue their cases, because it is a court of law.

I'm honestly not sure what point you were trying to make.

greydruid March 10 2012, 19:31:00 UTC

My only point was for you to see it from a different point of view. It was the whole purpose of the second paragraph. This doesn't mean you suddenly have to agree with any of it, it's just a means for understanding the other side, and why they're not going to go away any time soon ( ... )