Why Don't You Know About Women's Rights Protests in the U.S.?

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Why Don't You Know About Women's Rights Protests in the U.S.?

Indifference assumes that our rights are secure and that others will remember that we have a right to have rights. What seem like radical outliers, people who, for example, seriously think women should not be allowed to vote or to be paid equally for work, reflect a wider, more general backlash that makes it culturally and politically acceptable to say women shouldn’t vote and be paid equally and be taken seriously. Indifference is what enables our rightward drift attempting to legislate our economy and health care into a mythological happy-land of father knows best — for you, your body, your family, your money, your government.

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(Source: seriouslyamerica)