Is the War on Women Real or Manufactured?

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I am not in favor of the health care bill. I don't think it's a good idea at all for the US. We're too big for blanket reforms like that. Were the federal government to regulate some of the insurance & pharma industries' practices, that would be welcome. But to put blanket reforms on all 50 states is foolish &, frankly, unconstitutional.

But, denying the women-specific actions taken by the Republican Party is foolish. They are definitely dancing to their own, male-centered tune.

Neither party is working in the best interest of the American People. Isn't that clear? They're working toward the best interests of their respective lobbies & campaign contributors. We need a change of the guard. There's far too much corruption & too many unconstitutional actions taking place in DC. Our two-party system isn't working. All they're doing is fighting each other to the detriment of our nation. They're both willing to wreck our economy as well as our environment & anything else that is necessary in order to force the other to "lose." The problem is that when that happens, the entire nation loses.
I say, "Fire the entire lot of them!" They're corrupt, their actions are unconstitutional & they're no good for America.

Aside from that, yes, you're correct about the health care bill. But that does not negate the fact that the Republican Party is definitely out to set our nation back to the 1950's. Why they hell would they want to do that? Control issues? Fear of something?

The thing is, she's promoting that very attitude in the workplace.
There are women who have to work under conditions where people say those things... men & women both. I've witnessed it. A supervisor said, in what he thought was a really hilarious way, that the cashier trying to get her work done "just has her period, Everybody, don't mind her," to a line of customers when she got irritated at his incompetence that caused the customers, & her, to wait for an unreasonable amount of time. He was a complete jerk to her & caused everyone waiting in line to be embarrassed & uncomfortable. It was only one of many blatant forms of public, embarrassing, sexual harassment situations I have directly witnessed in a workplace situation. Everyone stood there in shock at what he said to her. She got up & walked away from her checkout line, enraged.

Lisa has apparently never had to have her job in order to survive. She has apparently never been in the position to have to endure such treatment & feel publicly humiliated while also feeling completely powerless to do anything to stop it without losing her job. And there just might not be many other jobs around, you know? So the single mother... or married mother, for that matter, would have no recourse for such behavior in the society Lisa suggests... the 50s mentality. She could either work there & put up with it or quit. She would likely be unable to collect any assistance because she quit instead of being laid-off or fired.

The point I was trying to illustrate to Lisa is that in the 50s, women had zero recourse whatsoever for anything, & did, in fact, have to tolerate similar & much worse abuse if they were even hired. The stigma of being a single mother in the 50s was unbelievable & it wasn't much better up until the 80s at least. The Republican establishment seems to be an a course to set our nation back to those times instead of working forward, toward an attitude more practical... such as the 2050s, when, hopefully, no one will have such an attitude.

People have been fighting for women to receive fair treatment in the workplace for decades... for Lisa to receive fair treatment... to make daily life less stressful, less degrading & more normal.
For her to say that women are less intelligent than men is frankly, shocking. The problem is that women have not, until recently, had the same opportunities to attend the same university courses as men. Universities were often (& some professions still statistically are) gender segregated. The number of women entering engineering is quite high nowadays, however in the past it was extremely low to nearly non-existent. But it certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with women's intelligence.

I do not believe that anyone in 2050 will even think the words "What... do you have your period or something?" I believe that is a comment better left in the 50s. My use of it was an attempted illustration of all the resulting personal reactions to such treatment in hopes she might understand what it might be like for a woman to have to endure such treatment daily or regularly in the place she spends a huge bulk of her life.