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By: Reclusive Leftist » Blog Archive » What a couple of radical feminists are doing in a place like The New Agenda

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:59:37 +0000

[...] wrote a post the other day that does a good job of explaining what our coalition is all about. In The game is rigged. Stop playing, Sheryl observes that ratification of CEDAW has been blocked in this country by fears that the [...]

By: Bes

Bes — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:05:07 +0000

Republican men and the Republican party are not the friend of women. But get real, if you still think that Democrat men and the Democrat party are friends to women you haven’t been listening to them talk misogyny and fashion this last year. And Democrat males are not going to help women on reproductive rights because then they loose their favorite tactic for scarring women into submission. We need a vast voting block of women in the middle and both parties need to cut each others throats yearly to win our votes for that election only. Party loyalty is a crippling mistake for women to make. Just say no to loyalty.

By: Bes

Bes — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:59:00 +0000

Currently we have reproductive rights so let’s put the worry about them on the back burner and accomplish something else for a change. Feminist dogma has not served real women any better than religious dogma.

By: yttik

yttik — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:38:49 +0000

LOL, I love the line, “the powers that pee standing up”. Great wording!

I’m tired of women allowing themselves to be held hostage over reproductive rights. I think it’s done a great deal of harm to women’s progress.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:26:07 +0000

I agree with Sasha,

The Right has used abortion as its justification for opposing. It’s just a smokescreen- abortion has nothing to do with it.

The problem is the Right has devoted time and energy over the years lobbying their congresspeople, etc., to oppose this. The left never did a thing to stop them. This illustrates why we need more women in government and why the rest of us must join together and take a stand.

By: madamab

madamab — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:59:03 +0000

Excellent article, Sheryl.

I tend to agree with Sasha on why the religious right is opposed to CEDAW. In Susan B. Anthony’s day, a powerful group of religious women who were against abortion supported Anthony’s crusade to gain votes for women. Now, I think the extremists have ventured so far into woman-hating that they would not have joined Anthony in her quest.

On the bright side, I think the reason they are pushing their anti-woman views so hard is because women are waking up to the existence of the patriarchy again. The Powers-That-Be have been hiding in plain sight for decades, and they were getting away with keeping women down. After the 2008 election, the curtain was drawn back and we saw what was really keeping women from achieving their potential. It’s not a lack of ambition, a lack of ability to compete with men, a lack of good looks or a lack of intelligence.

The game is rigged.

By: How Abortion Divides Us | Hillary or Bust

How Abortion Divides Us | Hillary or Bust — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:55:10 +0000

[...] The New Agenda reports that the US is one of the few holdouts to ratifying the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) into law. As we hear on the news horrifying stories of teenage girls getting beaten by the Taliban, you have to wonder why it is taking so long for women to achieve not just “true equality” but some semblance of true progress worldwide. [...]

By: A-Nell

A-Nell — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:10:32 +0000

This may not be the right place for it, but I wonder if part of your goals regarding women’s rights and the fair pay issue would be also related to minimum wage. I confess I thought that every state was required to have a min wage law and after talking to a relative in MS, I looked it up and found this site: http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm.
This was a shocker to me. And, of course, when there is no minimum wage requirement, I am guessing that the difference between men and women wages will be even greater.
I know this is not in line with this article but I don’t see a place for general comments but maybe there is one.
But I do think this country is or should be in shame for not having the CEDAW, and an even better version. We should be leading the world in human rights of all kinds. But I think I know why we don’t.

By: Sasha, CA

Sasha, CA — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:54:38 +0000

The religious right is opposed to the CEDAW because they disagree with its core premise: equal rights for women. The abortion issue is just a smokescreen. The CEDAW doesn’t even mention abortion, and it has in fact been ratified by dozens of countries that outlaw abortion (in some cases even if the life of the mother is at risk).

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:45:57 +0000

Fantastic article, Sheryl. We needed this reminder of what we’re about.