Politics as (Sadly) Usual TW: Victim Blaming
Remember when I posted about that bill in Wisconsin that essentially blames since parents for child abuse?
If anyone doubted that has anything to do with women why don't we take a look at what the bill's sponsors have to say about it?
Grothman (the guy from before?) says "There's been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of women."
(I am sure there are probably people out there, some of them probably women, who will say that's not sexist. I will argue that's because those people are misogynists.)
The bill's other sponsor, a man named Don Pridemore, says, "If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help."
(I know we've been hearing that from judges and other public officials but this guy makes the laws!)
He also told a reporter that "he thinks a single woman can take care of a family in some situations -- but he thinks fathers are usually the disciplinarians and without that, 'kids tend to go astray.'"
(I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there are tons of layers of sexism here. Or that the statement about disciplinarians sounds a little terrifying coming from someone who is supposedly supporting this bill to protect children from child abuse. I know there are lots of forms of discipline but still. It raises concerns.)
And when faced with a health professional (what do they know?) saying that unhappy relations are more strongly linked to child abuse and neglect than whether or not parents are married? They (shockingly) stand by their bill.
So yeah. Awesome. Great time to be a woman. :/
Edited to Add
Since I already made one political themed post today I figured I would just tag this on here.
New image on Facebook. Supposedly in "support" of women's rights. But blames women for the whole political war on women.
So yeah. Just so we're clear? Unmarried women made up 25% percent of the vote in 2010. 25% Let's think about that here. What category would they count unmarried women in? Probably the same category in which they count married women, married men, and unmarried men. This is one place where you can't mash married couples together, people have to counted on their own So that's what? Four categories? And women made up 25% of the vote? Sorry to break to you, Dude Who Posted This, but that's one fourth of the vote.
And why does it matter how unmarried women voted? About about married women? These policies actually affect them too. And what about married men? And unmarried men? Presumably they know some women.
And of course there's the second chart that points out that only 24% of those unmarried women voted. 39% weren't registered, 37% were registered but didn't vote.
But let's not bother to shame the liberal men who didn't vote. Nope. Let's place all of this on women. Better yet? Let's place it on those Jezebels who are all having sex outside of marriage. I mean if it weren't for them we wouldn't even be in this mess! Let's not worry about the fact that during the 2010 elections many Republican candidates were making promises that they would focus only on employment and that women's rights wouldn't be an issue, they weren't going to mess with them. Yeah, let's just forget that a lot of the Republicans that got voted into swing districts and previously liberal districts and states made promises that they broke. Let's blame women instead. Because that's easier.
*much cursing here*
If anyone doubted that has anything to do with women why don't we take a look at what the bill's sponsors have to say about it?
Grothman (the guy from before?) says "There's been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of women."
(I am sure there are probably people out there, some of them probably women, who will say that's not sexist. I will argue that's because those people are misogynists.)
The bill's other sponsor, a man named Don Pridemore, says, "If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help."
(I know we've been hearing that from judges and other public officials but this guy makes the laws!)
He also told a reporter that "he thinks a single woman can take care of a family in some situations -- but he thinks fathers are usually the disciplinarians and without that, 'kids tend to go astray.'"
(I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there are tons of layers of sexism here. Or that the statement about disciplinarians sounds a little terrifying coming from someone who is supposedly supporting this bill to protect children from child abuse. I know there are lots of forms of discipline but still. It raises concerns.)
And when faced with a health professional (what do they know?) saying that unhappy relations are more strongly linked to child abuse and neglect than whether or not parents are married? They (shockingly) stand by their bill.
So yeah. Awesome. Great time to be a woman. :/
Edited to Add
Since I already made one political themed post today I figured I would just tag this on here.
New image on Facebook. Supposedly in "support" of women's rights. But blames women for the whole political war on women.
So yeah. Just so we're clear? Unmarried women made up 25% percent of the vote in 2010. 25% Let's think about that here. What category would they count unmarried women in? Probably the same category in which they count married women, married men, and unmarried men. This is one place where you can't mash married couples together, people have to counted on their own So that's what? Four categories? And women made up 25% of the vote? Sorry to break to you, Dude Who Posted This, but that's one fourth of the vote.
And why does it matter how unmarried women voted? About about married women? These policies actually affect them too. And what about married men? And unmarried men? Presumably they know some women.
And of course there's the second chart that points out that only 24% of those unmarried women voted. 39% weren't registered, 37% were registered but didn't vote.
But let's not bother to shame the liberal men who didn't vote. Nope. Let's place all of this on women. Better yet? Let's place it on those Jezebels who are all having sex outside of marriage. I mean if it weren't for them we wouldn't even be in this mess! Let's not worry about the fact that during the 2010 elections many Republican candidates were making promises that they would focus only on employment and that women's rights wouldn't be an issue, they weren't going to mess with them. Yeah, let's just forget that a lot of the Republicans that got voted into swing districts and previously liberal districts and states made promises that they broke. Let's blame women instead. Because that's easier.
*much cursing here*