Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Dangerous New GOP Law Could Kill Many Women u0026 Reduce the Rest to Second-Class Citizens" video.

And yet, a group of women who took a case to put the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution to the Supreme Court was turned down for “lack of standing”. Can someone please explain to me how a woman, any woman, or a group of women, lack standing on a case about equal rights? Not having equal rights affects, or harms, every woman in the country. Just when I was starting to think I was understanding something about law!
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One of my favorite authors, Mona Eltahawy, refers to them as “the footsoldiers of the patriarchy”. That works for me, and I’ve never forgotten it. They are the “Aunts” (think of Aunt Lydia from The Handmaid’s Tale) of the world, except they aren’t forced to do it on pain of torture or death.
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@AuntieMamies Ignore her. She’s a troll, or a pick-me. I’ve seen her doing the same here before.
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@bruceneu8588 Incorrect: In 2020 Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, but the menfolks (thanks, Mitt Romney /*sarcasm) in Congress voted it down because of a stupid deadline that doesn’t go into other amendments, nor is it in the text of the ERA itself. Besides, the Constitution clearly states that once an amendment is ratified by 38 states it is no longer in the hands of Congress, so they shouldn’t have even had the right to vote against it. I don’t know if it would or would not restore abortion rights after the fact, but they could not have overturned abortion rights if the ERA had been put into the Constitution after Virginia ratified it. Also, it’s interesting that there is a 2-year delay after ratification (at least in the ERA, but not in other amendments), so it should have at least been made law by 2022 at the latest, but, isn’t it funny that abortion rights were overturned just a few months after that 2-year mark, as if they (SCOTUS) were still deciding on it.
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@AuntieMamies There’s a LOT of SA, other violence and killings in it. It’s pretty brutal, so I could see why some schools ban it for children. However, for us adult women, I HIGHLY recommend it because there are a lot of male politicians in this country who seem to want to make a lot of the situations in the book national policy. They very much want to control women, and force women to have babies. Also, although it’s technically fiction, the author, Margaret Atwood, has stated (in interviews) that every single one of the things that were done to women in the book has actually happened to women in various places and times throughout history. It’s very eye-opening, terrifying, and serves as a warning to us women. I often say that while we see it as a warning, the Republicans (mostly men, of course) see it as a blueprint. Watch it or read it and you’ll see what I mean.
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@bruceneu8588 Exactly. But try to tell that to Congress. There were a couple of states that tried to rescind their ratification, but, as with any other vote, once it’s done it’s done. It even describes that in the Constitution. They find all sorts of niggly little excuses to keep women from being equal citizens. I believe they (Mitt Romney, et al) even conferred with SCOTUS about it, so we’re not likely to win with them, either, an least not the current SCOTUS. Even the noted brilliant mind and law professor Laurence Tribe even says it should be in the Constitution. There is a group of women saying that because it should have gone immediately into the Constitution that it IS constitutional law, but they’re not going to win that one. Someone even had a new Constitution printed up with it in there. The Twenty-eighth Amendment! I’m thinking about getting one, but it’s just too expensive for being a novelty.
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@lindastimer8667 Exactly. When I hear a man like him say “Oh, but I LOVE women” I know exactly what he means, and I run far away. They only see women as s*x toys and arm candy to show off.
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