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electric_blue68

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23. Shades of Gilead. 😬 Someday All Women will be Treated as First-Class Citizens! Not yet.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:48 PM

Mar 29

Decades back, at some point for a time; my thinking was respecting cultural norms of any country's, or groups society.

Then I thought, oh, hell, no...women & girls should not be treated like 2nd, or 3rd class citizens, broodmares, etc, ever!
We are people first!

We have as much talent, effort, inventiveness, serious thinking etc as any man in general, along with the choice to create, birth, and raise children (which the father should be a part of in general).
Reproductive ability should not preclude these other aspects!

Arrrgggggg!

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GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide [View all] BumRushDaShow Mar 28 OP

But they still don't want to give mothers time off or pay to feed children. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 28 #1

Let alone even think of "childcare" BumRushDaShow Mar 28 #3

They just enjoy wallowing in the symbols of what they hate and want to destroy. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 28 #5

I think of a tradwife as a Stepford wife--an automaton who has no greater purpose than serving and pleasing her husband. Lonestarblue Mar 28 #8

They see women as a means of production. Capital, in other words. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 28 #11

That was my thought as well BumRushDaShow Mar 28 #13

Go back 150+ years for a "tradwife" Hekate Mar 28 #15

You don't even have to go back that far BumRushDaShow Mar 28 #17

I know. Some of what I say is in reaction to the many people who said overturning Roe ... Hekate Mar 28 #18

"Traditional" wife NT SADAR Mar 28 #16

IOW, a "modern" version of the "housewife" or "homemaker" BumRushDaShow Mar 29 #22

After 1 day old bluestarone Mar 28 #2

I wonder just how many of those lawmakers have ever been pregnant? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 28 #4

More of that glorious 'Freedom' MAGA is always shouting about. sinkingfeeling Mar 28 #6

With Republicans, there is never any good news. GoodRaisin Mar 28 #7

The simple solution to reducing unwanted abortions is to make castration mandatory. jls4561 Mar 28 #9

All that will happen MissKat Mar 28 #10

And pregnant women who will suffer and die without emergency medical intervention? Zambero Mar 28 #12

We need a 21st Century Underground Railroad to help pregnant women get abortions question everything Mar 28 #14

Two places to inquire about donations to existing programs: Planned Parenthood and the Brigid Alliance Hekate Mar 29 #20

Thank you. I will question everything Mar 29 #21

Are there any cutouts in the bill at all? sakabatou Mar 28 #19

Shades of Gilead. 😬 Someday All Women will be Treated as First-Class Citizens! Not yet. electric_blue68 Mar 29 #23