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My first reading (in haste) was that Ginsburg told the grads to do something about wages. That would have been a more useful message than what sounds like the usual soaring but vague rhetoric of these things. The women’s movement pays only lip service to the wage gaps exists for for female wage workers–the hotel clerks and housekeepers, most retail employees, the cleaners in your office building. yes, they talk about wage gaps, but they have no outreach to these women. people lose faith and commitment to the system because it never seems to be about them. Don’t quote me about liberal good works–they’re at best band-aids on fundamental problems that draw rhetoric, rather than solutions.
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Well said. I sincerely hope that the following posters are variations on this needed theme,
““Young women today have a great advantage, and it is that there are no more closed doors,” the 82-year-old justice said in a speech at Harvard University, in Cambridge. “That was basically what the 70s was all about. Opening doors that had been closed to women.””
Oh, oh. With that type of radical rhetoric, how much longer before the mullahs in Alabama call for her impeachment…again.
The first big one after this speech may be the election of the first woman President.
Despite anyone’s particular political feelings regarding Hillary, the most likely winner of that honor, the deep meaning of finally electing our first female President is no less meaningful than electing Barack Hussein Obama.
Elizabeth Warren is not nearly as experienced but is popular and popular for the right reasons, she too would make a great first female President but isn’t running.
Politics is politics unless it is coming from a woman’s perspective and that is exactly the difference that a woman will make. I believe that politics coming from a woman leader will be a true eye opener for the US and will change the game for the better forever. And, we need a change, the change that President Obama hoped to bring but has been stifled by the very people that have made the system the massive disappointment that it is, the exclusionary, openly bigoted Party, The GOP.
Young women helping to elect a roll model as big as the POTUS has to be inspiring and it also puts much pressure on that President to perform. They need each other.
Look at Ginsburg and her POV, a woman President would surely replace her with another woman who fights the same and inspires the same.
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