My hero from Possum Trot, AL, Lilly Ledbetter, has published a book “Grace and Grit” chronicling her experience with her fight for equal pay at Goodyear Rubber and taking that fight to the Supreme Court.
She’s going on tour to discuss her book and her life.
I am going to pick up a copy today. I think it will be a good read for Women’s History Month.
Thanks to Rush “the entertainer,” we have stories like this. I want to punch somebody. Imagine if this was your little girl…
From Rush. Apparently his major advertisers dropping like flies was enough to result in this “I’m sorry if what I said bothered you” apology.
Bitch was asking for it, anyway.
So intellectual journals in general are rather lax in publishing pieces by women writers! I am so very, very shocked.
Seriously, don’t kid yourself. It happens in the blogosphere, too. I still remember a young Ezra Klein (yes, even younger) lecturing me about expecting to be supported by male bloggers when I hadn’t paid my dues, like him. “Uh, Ezra, I’ve been blogging a year longer than you,” I said.
Oh.
Here’s why it’s important: Because women in general are more liberal than men. We want specific social things, we’re not as eager to whip out our dicks on national security issues to make people take us seriously. The national discourse would look very different if more women – diverse women, not women selected for their ability to parrot the standard male policy wonk positions – were given a voice.
And if pigs had wings, they could fly.
Still oppressing women who want an abortion. And as with most states where unthinking fundies run the show, it will only continue to get worse.
Very sad piece about what happens when women in Ireland have to go to England for abortions.
