Does anyone really believe that NOW cares about women?
By Taskr36
@Taskr36 (13963)
United States
October 9, 2010 1:01pm CST
Shortly after hearing that Jerry Brown's campaign called Meg Whitman a wh0re the National Organization for Women rushed to endorse him. They made it quite clear that they have no objections to calling Whitman a wh0re because that's ok when a democrat says it.
Is there anyone who honestly believes that NOW isn't just a left wing political interest group? Have you ever seen them object to any of the sexism by democrats in the political arena? They certainly didn't mind when Alan Grayson called an advisor to Ben Bernanke a "K-street wh0re".
About their only excuse for endorsing Brown and "condemning" Whitman is that he's much more pro-abortion than she is, and of course they don't think she paid her housekeeper enough (seriously, who can live off a measely $23 an hour?)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/08/womens-group-endorses-brown-on-same-day-as-wh0re-comment-surfaces/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/jerry-brown-announces-now-endorsement-one-day-after-meg-whitman-slur.html
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
10 Oct 10
NOW has an agenda and of course they're a left wing special interest group. I've never been a supporter of NOW but they started out with liberal views...very liberal at the time of their inception...and will continue to follow their course. They have nothing in common with the conservative right so, of course, that's going to be expressed...as the conservatives do when it comes to liberals.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
10 Oct 10
Truth be told, no, NOW does not really care that much about women, and the reason I say this is because they politically motivated.
I am not against women who want to have abortions, however, I, myself, would never have one because I know the damage that having an abortion can do to a woman's body.
As I have said before, women should have equality and rights like anyone else.
NOW has always been to the left on everything. They aren't independent if that is what anyone is thinking. They are a special interest group with political motives.
@DeenaD (2684)
• United States
10 Oct 10
Feminists long ago stopped caring about women. They are now cheerleaders for one particular political party, regardless of the behavior of that party's candidates. Remember the women they were happy to throw under the bus during the Clinton years? They have lost all credibility with me. They are petty and irrelevant and shrewish.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
9 Oct 10
As you point out, there are plenty of excuses made by liberals for liberal males who show less than a modern sensitivity in regards to women and women's rights. In fact, when it comes right down to it, the only rights that seem to matter to NOW and liberals of either gender are abortion rights. The only choice that matters is reproductive choice. As you pointed out in another discussion, the choice to stay home to raise a family rather than work is sneered at. Any woman who suggests otherwise is immediately set upon and her destruction is sure.
Sexist is a word reserved for people on the right who may support equal rights, equal opportunity and equal pay for women but have moral objections to abortion on demand.
@jb78000 (15139)
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10 Oct 10
did you read that other discussion rollo? i think it was full of american liberals (and conservatives) saying that of course there is nothing wrong with choosing to stay at home. or work. why are you assuming that all liberals are like some random idiot with a very big bee in her bonnet? (don't even know if she was a 'liberal')
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
10 Oct 10
Are you suggesting that conservatives don't believe the same about liberal women? Show the class an example of one conservative standing up for a liberal woman in politics because they are just as guilty. I took part in that other discussion and as a woman who was also a stay at home mom as well as a working one, I was not sneered at by anyone (unless I missed it).
Abortion rights are constantly under attack by conservatives so, yes, there is focus on that from the liberal side of the street because it's an important issue to many women. Women are targeted in many ways...by the press if they rise high enough in the political arena...on both sides, in the business world where that glass ceiling is indeed a reality and by people who believe that they have a moral right to dictate what a woman does with her own body.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
10 Oct 10
I did give an example of a conservative standing up for an opposition woman - Christine O'Donnell who has said she greatly admires Hillary Clinton for her struggle to make it in politics against unfair media coverage because of her gender.
My point is that abortion rights is THE pivotal position that liberals decide their support or derision upon. They despise any woman who does not agree with them on abortion and so anything goes. The same is not true on the other side. To the liberal, no woman is allowed a dissenting opinion on when life begins and whether or not it should be protected. Woman are expected to all think the same way, which is by definition, sexism.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
10 Oct 10
You and I are not going to agree about this but, that's no surprise. I know that the "right" with their high and might attitude really don't believe this but, the conservative population is not a big promoter of women's rights.
1. Equal pay for equal work isn't a priority for them
2. Letting a woman choose what to do with their body rather than the government is not supported by the "right"
3. Lets throw in those new Tea Party people that want to do away with all the amendments to the Constitution. Taking away a woman's vote isn't very "pro-woman"
Those are my top three with the conservatives but, I could go on. Now tell me why any organization that is promoting women's equality would endorse anyone on that side of the aisle?
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
10 Oct 10
1. There's more to equal pay than just having the same job title and job description. Lawsuits are NOT the answer. Equal work makes a good slogan, but it's much harder to prove that people are doing equal work. Instead someone just points to their job title and says they should be making as much as the highest paid person with that title.
2. Meg Whitman actually agrees with you on this one. Since she doesn't support government funded abortions for everyone in California though, she's just not good enough for NOW. Regardless, the issue for people who oppose abortion is that you aren't talking about what a woman does to HER body, but what she does to the body of her child, in this case, killing the child.
3. The vast majority of Tea Partiers are big supporters of the constitution and want the government to follow it, unlike they're doing now, or have been doing for the last few decades.
@piasabird (1737)
• United States
10 Oct 10
Heck no, the right doesn't believe in killing babies! You got that correct.
And could you provide a link to number three? I haven't heard that the tea party wants to revoke the right for women to vote.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
10 Oct 10
I think you have a typo taskr because everything I have read on Whitman says she agrees with publicly funded abortion.
And, if you can show me a case of a 3 week old fetus able to live outside of a woman's body and survive than maybe I'll change my mind. I just really don't get you people because you want smaller government as long as it doesn't effect the things you believe in. Because a government telling a woman she can't have a medical procedure is pretty big government to me. Also, the government telling you who you can or cannot marry seems like pretty big government too but, I realize that conservatives have no intention of seeing that because it doesn't support their beliefs.
We can only have big brother when big brother supports what we believe and when it doesn't they are just fascist secular immoral a$$holes.
