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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTRUMP TO APPOINT ANTI-FEMINIST TO KEY WOMENS RIGHTS POSITION
We did not come this far to help these people take us back centuries. Wake up!
http://feministing.com/2017/10/30/trump-to-appoint-anti-feminist-to-key-womens-rights-position/
Trump intends to nominate a woman named Penny Young Nance as ambassador-at-large for global womens issues. As such, shed be responsible for managing the State Departments programs to fight gender-based violence and promote women and girls educational and economic achievement.
Heres the problem: Penny Young Nance has made her career standing in the way of girls and womens rights.
Nance is the President and CEO of Concerned Women For America (CWA), an organization whose mission statement says it protects and promotes Biblical values and Constitutional principles in America. The group is as far-right as it gets, and Nance is basically a bargain Phyllis Schlafly a reactionary zealot getting rich by selling out women and giving the right cover for the rights openly misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ agenda....more
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TRUMP TO APPOINT ANTI-FEMINIST TO KEY WOMENS RIGHTS POSITION (Original Post)
Skidmore
Nov 2017
OP
Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda.
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#1
I'm to the point where one of his appointments would shock me only if...
Pacifist Patriot
Nov 2017
#5
It's what Susan Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is...
NurseJackie
Nov 2017
#7
wow. bizarro world, indeed. CWA basically stands for barefoot, pregnant, and in kitchen. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Nov 2017
#8
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)1. Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Hey Pres. Turd, I have a little something for you:
It's a castration tool.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)3. What the fuck??
Elections matter.
There is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.
People need to wake up.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)4. Good Gawd!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)5. I'm to the point where one of his appointments would shock me only if...
the nominee was not directly in opposition to the mission the position is supposed to promote or defend.
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)6. Pence's hands are all over these appointments.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)7. It's what Susan Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is...
... she can barely contain her excitement at the horrors that await us.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)8. wow. bizarro world, indeed. CWA basically stands for barefoot, pregnant, and in kitchen. nt
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)9. Of course. No surprise there.
Trump hates women.
MANative
(4,112 posts)10. Trust me, the feeling is mutual.
"Hate" doesn't do the emotion justice. Not even close.