Setting Back Women's Rights
by Ellen Goodman, Boston.com
It's
been 84 years since women won the right to vote, but the only women in
the race for White House housing are ladies, as in first
lady….American women, under their venerable old Constitution, will
hold only 13.8 percent of the congressional seats [this year].
“Failure is impossible,” said Susan B. Anthony. But she forgot to mention how slow success could be.
With this in mind we assembled our one-woman committee to pick winners for the Equal Rites Awards. The ERAs are given annually to those who have done their most to set back the cause of equality.
The envelopes please.
The Super Bowl of Sexism
trophy goes to those folks at the NFL and the FCC who were shocked (!)
when their halftime programming – erectile dysfunction ads,
crotch-biting dogs, half-clad cheerleaders – was interrupted by Janet
Jackson's overexposure. Umm, anybody notice that Justin Timberlake had
a hand in the “wardrobe malfunction”?
Ah well, Boys will be Boys
and Arnold will be Schwarzenegger. The former Terminator and alleged
serial groper gets the boytoy prize for his critique of the Democratic
leadership in Sacramento: “I call them girlie men.” We send the
legislators – male and female – sand to kick in his face.
If you
think Arnold deserves his booby prize, you haven't met Republican
Representative Bill Tauzin of Louisiana, who included a pet project in
the energy bill that would help subsidize a Hooters restaurant in
Louisiana. We send him a push-up bra nicely inscribed: Your Tax Dollars
At Work.
The private sector has its own boobs. So the Mixed Messenger Prize
goes to the restaurant owner in West Branch, Iowa, who on one hand
sponsored wet T-shirt contests. On the other hand, he refused to let a
woman breast feed her baby at her table. We send him what he needs, a
pacifier. [Must have been a Republican.]
(Click here to read the rest of the article.)
Blog For Iowa 
Superb article by Ellen Goodman…Especially to see it repeated today August 26th which is the anniversary of WOMEN WINNING THE RIGHT TO VOTE!..So make sure you get out there & vote by absentee or in person..VOTE ON….DEAN ON!
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