Quick Hit: A year of notable setbacks for women
Ellen Goodman outlines just how far we haven't come this year. (Random: All of us at Feministing were happy to see that we had blogged about most of the issues Goodman brings up.)
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I thought this was a particularly powerful quote from the article:
"Unfortunately, we must return home for the Patriarch of the Year Prize. It goes with disappointment to US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose opinion restricting abortions rested on the retro notion that women needed to be protected from "regret," "grief," and "sorrow," even if it meant protecting them from their rights. We send the paternalistic justice a hook to bring him back to the 21st century."
Ellen Goodman was a huge critic of the National Organization for Women; she was cited in Ellen Hawkes’ book, Feminism On Trial, accusing “NOW of becoming just an arm of the Democratic Party" as well as “National NOW leaders are dying to get into the right cocktail parties instead of worrying about women dying in the streets.�
I hope she changed her mind about that, because I think NOW is actively doing a lot of things for women and it's just plain shitty seeing girl-on-girl hatred...I just can't stand women beating each other down it sets us all back a lot.