The Resolute Woman

Category: sexism

  • A punishing standard of beauty

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    Lisa See writes about footbinding in her book Lady Tan’s Circle of Women. In comments at the end of the book, she writes: ”While the custom of footbinding is behind us that doesn’t mean women aren’t held to what can be a punishing standard of beauty today. Take a walk down Rodeo Drive, and you’ll…

  • Discrimination

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    Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, calls for the next president to rescind executive orders signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s. These orders prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race and sex.

  • Abstinence only

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    Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, would allow only abstinence-based sex education—a notoriously ineffective approach. It also would eliminate the requirement that sex education programs be evidence based.

  • Destroying reproductive rights

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    Proposals to restrict reproductive rights pervade Project 2025’s policy agenda, reports Ms. Magazine in its fall 2024 issue. The project, for example, calls for the reversal of a Biden administration policy that requires hospitals to offer abortions in medical emergencies, regardless of state bans.

  • The misogynist manifesto

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    In its fall 2024 issue, Ms. magazine calls Project 2025 “the misogynist manifesto.” Project 2025, for example, “directs the president to develop policies and programs to maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.” The document explains: “For the sake of child well-being, programs should affirm that children require and deserve both…

  • A Black woman president?

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    Is this country ready for a Black woman president? The bigger question, asked Alex Shephard in the New Republic, is whether we’re ready to elect an elderly career criminal to whom the epithet “fascist” can be applied without hyperbole. Should “a convicted felon, sexual predator and insurrectionist” be returned to office? asked Frederick Baron and…

  • Waiting to die

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    “You have to wait until you are certain that a patient is going to die before you can end that pregnancy,” said Dr. Lauren Miller, who was quoted in the spring 2024 issue of Ms. Magazine. She was practicing in Idaho when she made that statement, but she now lives in Colorado.

  • The story of a Black woman

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    Eddie Bernice Johnson, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023, overcame many of the obstacles faced by Black women.

  • Noise

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    Panchita, Isabel Allende’s mother, once said, “Everything can be handled elegantly and without noise.” Isabel disagreed. “There’s no feminism without noise,” she writes. I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the book is very interesting, and some of it is not so interesting. –Joy

  • Anger

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    “An obstinate and defiant character was accepted in my brothers as an essential condition of masculinity, but in me it could only be pathological,” writes Isabel Allende. “Isn’t it always thus? Girls are denied the right to be angry and thrash about.” I just read Allende’s book The Soul of a Woman. Some of the…