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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 02:36 PM Nov 2017

TRUMP 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 women’s issues. As such, she’d be responsible for managing the State Department’s programs to fight gender-based violence and promote women and girls’ educational and economic achievement.

Here’s the problem: Penny Young Nance has made her career standing in the way of girls’ and women’s 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 right’s 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
Hey Pres. Turd, I have a little something for you: lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #2
What the fuck?? Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #3
Good Gawd! pandr32 Nov 2017 #4
I'm to the point where one of his appointments would shock me only if... Pacifist Patriot Nov 2017 #5
Pence's hands are all over these appointments. Lochloosa Nov 2017 #6
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
Of course. No surprise there. MineralMan Nov 2017 #9
Trust me, the feeling is mutual. MANative Nov 2017 #10

Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
3. What the fuck??
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 02:40 PM
Nov 2017

Elections matter.

There is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.

People need to wake up.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,653 posts)
5. I'm to the point where one of his appointments would shock me only if...
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 02:50 PM
Nov 2017

the nominee was not directly in opposition to the mission the position is supposed to promote or defend.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
7. It's what Susan Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is...
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 03:17 PM
Nov 2017

... she can barely contain her excitement at the horrors that await us.

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