The Right's sexism

I know I've been posting Ezra Kleine a lot lately, but the topic in this video really touched me .... the extreme sexism of the political Right and their continuing project of returning society to a time when men were men (think Quest for Fire) and women were just their f*ckable child-bearing slaves.

I was young in the 60s/70s, when the advent of birth control pills gave women the power to decide for themselves when and if they wanted to have children. That was perhaps the most important step towards women's equality.

Here's a past video from the Gates Foundation that advocates for helping women in other countries get birth contol. But the message is just as relevant to our own society, especially now: contraception gives women a chance for education, employment, health, and a better life for the children they do have ...



It will come as no surprise, then, that the Right has done everything possible to destroy women's freedom to choose birth control and also abortion. The Right will dress this up with laughably tortured religion/philosophy, but this is truly about one thing - keeping women powerless. It is abominable.