Take that, gurlz
It’s hard to imagine a more ironic choice for America’s next ambassador-at-large for women’s issues.
The position is tasked with overseeing State Department programs to end gender-based violence and empower women and girls around the world. So, naturally, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Penny Young Nance, a far-right Christian activist who opposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act; recently cheered on an attempt to block a pregnant teen immigrant from an abortion; and has called on Hollywood to write more scripts featuring strong male leads.
She can be an ambassador for helping women around the world to be more submissive and helpful to their Husbands.
Nance is the CEO and president of Concerned Women for America. The group’s agenda, according to its website, includes “protecting and supporting the Biblical design of marriage,” “protecting the sanctity of human life,” “ending sexual exploitation by fighting all forms of pornography, obscenity, prostitution, and sex trafficking,” and “defending religious liberty.”
Trump doesn’t believe any of that shit – but he does hate women, and he is a sadist, so this is his idea of a fun thing to do.
“Trump doesn’t believe any of that shit….” But I would guess he does believe in the Divine Right of Trump.
No, I’ll rephrase that: in the Right of the Divine Trump.
No, better still: in the Right of the Divine Gold-plated Trump.
Or should that be Gold-plated Rump?
Yes but the Divine Trump could find fun things to do other than forcing women to stay pregnant when they don’t want to.
Agreed.
And
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/03/empty-seats-greet-ivanka-trump-at-womens-empowerment-speech-in-tokyo
I read that one but the headline is misleading – the seats were empty because some people were still going through security. Maybe that was just PR bullshit, I don’t know, but it’s in doubt.
I may be wrong, but it appears to me that Trump has been lobbied by the Catholic clergy or their cronies. Or maybe at the outside he thought this up all by himself.
The issue is not just one of women’s right to control their own bodies and fertility, the clerics have long since lost that battle. They are also wrong on the issue of individual life starting at the moment of conception. We do not as individuals begin instantly, but gradually.
If the priests were only half-sincere, they would insist on all menstrual blood being brought to church for requiem Mass, just in case it contained a zygote or foetus, with full right to life. The existing doctrine is their way of controlling women and at the same time building an increasing congregation of the hopeful, and the Catholic population generally.