Where Are the Women?
It’s time I came out with it. I know full well that I maybe putting my identity as well as my well-being at risk—but after recent events, I can no longer keep at bay my anger and my sheer, utter, disgust at the attacks on women’s rights.
In February of 2012; Senator Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) asked a very poignant and appropriate question before walking out of a House oversight committee hearing on contraceptive coverage. Angrily, she asked "What I want to know is, where are the women? I look at this panel [of witnesses], and I don't see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning.”
That one question propelled into motion a women’s rights movement not seen since the 1960’s and 70’s—and awakened a sleeping giant I am quite sure the Republican party is now kicking themselves over. …show more content…
The Don't Have Sex With Republicans Month (DHSwRM) campaign that began with a few strokes on the keyboard and one very smart friend who compared the attacks on women to the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes Lysistrata who withheld sexual favors from men until they came to their senses and ended the Peloponnesian War. By the time the Unite against the War on Women March & Rally on April 28, 2012 rolled around when women of all shades, sexual orientations, and walk of life, across the nation, marched at the injustice of the attacks on our rights everyone knew who the DHSwRM campaign was. They identified with us—they were as outraged as we were, the idea sparked a furious wildfire that spread through the internet more rapidly then I could have ever dreamed
It’s time I came out with it. I know full well that I maybe putting my identity as well as my well-being at risk—but after recent events, I can no longer keep at bay my anger and my sheer, utter, disgust at the attacks on women’s rights.
In February of 2012; Senator Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) asked a very poignant and appropriate question before walking out of a House oversight committee hearing on contraceptive coverage. Angrily, she asked "What I want to know is, where are the women? I look at this panel [of witnesses], and I don't see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services, including family planning.”
That one question propelled into motion a women’s rights movement not seen since the 1960’s and 70’s—and awakened a sleeping giant I am quite sure the Republican party is now kicking themselves over. …show more content…
The Don't Have Sex With Republicans Month (DHSwRM) campaign that began with a few strokes on the keyboard and one very smart friend who compared the attacks on women to the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes Lysistrata who withheld sexual favors from men until they came to their senses and ended the Peloponnesian War. By the time the Unite against the War on Women March & Rally on April 28, 2012 rolled around when women of all shades, sexual orientations, and walk of life, across the nation, marched at the injustice of the attacks on our rights everyone knew who the DHSwRM campaign was. They identified with us—they were as outraged as we were, the idea sparked a furious wildfire that spread through the internet more rapidly then I could have ever dreamed