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The Continuous Assault on Human Rights
There has been a lot of white women screaming about the assault on women’s rights, dressing up in Handmaid’s Tale attire to emphasize where this country is headed. However, fights for equality have been happening and it’s been headed in this direction for a while now. Quite simply a lot of people didn’t notice for the same reason many of us didn’t notice: social media and the 2016 election. Those two combined were the catalyst for white women in particular, because they realized that if a pussy-grabbing, 23 sexual assault allegations scuzz could be elected president, that they — white women — were vulnerable.
The fight for women’s rights, like civil rights has been a continued arduous fight, and they have both been slowly eroded over time. This is all a concerted effort, and part of the problem is that “the problem” was allowed to remain. The other problem is a lack of unity that has led to the current dangerous climate.
Should They Stay?
Laws that deal with quality of live for particular groups is often, depending on where you are, unhelpful. The reason being that the people who are tasked with enforcing the law were the same one vehemently against granting…
