Author: resolutewoman
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A punishing standard of beauty
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…
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We are in this together
“Our unity is our strength, and our diversity is our power. We reject the myth of us vs. them. We are in this together,” Kamala Harris says.
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Good, fair and just
Let us cling to hope. “The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals,” Kamala Harris once said.
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Pay attention
“Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought,” Hesychios of Sinai once said. I found this quote in Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird. –Joy
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Discrimination
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.
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Abstinence only
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.
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Destroying reproductive rights
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.