Lee Gets Schooled On Women's Issues

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“We are the melting pot of the world and there's people upset about this beautiful girl winning cause she's Arab? Really?”

★ Spotlighted from Kerry Stevens

“I don't like Miss America pageants and their standards they have for women, what we should look like, etc”

★ Spotlighted from Susan Tribby

“Women are given control over the children - what could be more powerful?”

★ Spotlighted from Elizabeth Leng

“I find it amazing how we seem to be going backwards in some sections of the community - or is it because media has given more light to the darker end of the genepool?”

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“It's no illusion. The religious right has pushed it's way into our governments and are removing access to our constitutional rights”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“We have our children, we raise our children yet even among working women, stay at mom homes are looked down upon.”

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“Yes, they started saying it out loud!! Shamelessly. And yes, Lee -- those Gomers have taken over in some regions. Happened in my state of NC”

★ Spotlighted from Elizabeth Leng

“I feel they may well be doing the ol' divide and conquer, keep 'em ignorant and we'll clean up - but then I think there's a wake-up happening, too”

★ Spotlighted from Tawkers Admin

“*Hint - If you are just joining the Tawk, we start you at the top, but you can hit the LIVE button on the top left jump to the most recent comments!”

★ Spotlighted from Jason Andrews

“Well the new Prime Minister is a bit of a religo nut bag - he got voted in bcos ... well everyone was sick of the other choice.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Or they make erroneous comparisons by creating absurd terms like 'Feminazi' to dissuade people from agreeing with Feminist principles.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Even self-proclaimed Feminists sometimes struggle with breaking away from the patriarchal influences of society, unfortunately. It's something we have to work on within the movement, together, but the influences of people like Limbaugh don't help.”

★ Spotlighted from Elizabeth Leng

“We did the Slutwalk in the first year in London and all types of Feminist were outraged with us, till they saw the following. Being anti-rape helped.......but they didn't like the name”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Feminism that is not intersectional is by default not truly conforming with Feminist principles, because Feminism should be for the equality and liberation of all women from the patriarchal cage, not just white women or cisgender women.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“I should go further: it should be for the liberation of all people from the patriarchal structure of society, because it arguably also harms men (although not as broadly or 'badly', but the harm is still there, particularly with LGBTQ men).”

★ Spotlighted from Jason Andrews

“The expectation of being 'a man' (whatever that is) destroys some boy's lives”

★ Spotlighted from Jason Andrews

“Green parties have dificulty existing in a capitalist framework”

★ Spotlighted from Trey Williamson

“I agree... Women have issues!”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“And it's perpetuated in seemingly subtle or 'innocent' ways, like the (intended to be) humorous use of the "I'm going to take your man card" shtick. How do those men feel when they're belittled for being too feminine? Not manly enough?”

★ Spotlighted from Susan Tribby

“The issue is democracy - no human should be telling another one how to live outside of criminal behavior - the problem is thinking abortion is murder.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Meg -- because the representatives represent the constituents no on Main Street but rather Wall Street and K street. The system is rigged in favor of elitism and fascism. MSM controls the debate.”

★ Spotlighted from Tom Taker

“It happens when we voluntarily hand over societal control to crackpots, like 13th century Thomas Aquinas who ordained only missionary position sex for procreation was not "sinful."”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“I also agree with Jason there. Capitalism as a system is not conductive to a society that wants to do things like preserve the environment or fight for equal rights.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“I absolutely agree, Jason.”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Lee -- yep. here is the story on Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“More simplistic societies like hunter-gatherer societies tend to have generally less inequality (on average), because they are not as socially stratified.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Economic systems like capitalism that involve markets arise when intensive agriculture is practised in a society, and as a rule inequality *increases* when those production methods are utilised.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Miller

“Why is it that all of these conversations are rants and raves of angst. I believe the glass to be half full. What's up with all the anger. We have elected a black President and now we have an Miss”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Because women's suffrage and the Civil Rights victories happened 40-60 years ago, Paul; we should be much further now than just having a black president or Indian Miss America.”

★ Spotlighted from Elizabeth Leng

“Elizabeth Warren - can't see anyone better and we need to remove the hawks and move onto people who have provable ol' fashioned ethics”

★ Spotlighted from Meg Nolastname

“@Michael Micklow I feel like we all as a collective need to decide for ourselves this is a shit way of doing things and stand up I wish more people could see governance of ones body male or female should be up to who resides in the body.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“But it's much like how scientists warned of climate change decades ago, and we're still doing crap all about it. To move a society into action involves convincing society, not just individuals like yourself.”

★ Spotlighted from Susan Tribby

“I'm wearing my Occupy pin - it ain't over 'til it's over”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“I fully believe colonialism is another issue Feminism needs to tackle because its influence deeply harms native women (who have a 1:3 chance of being raped, likely by a non-native man, in their lifetime).”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“This hamster wheel we call living is spinning so fast, we lost track of which way was up and out!”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“And I'm wearing "Punch Apathy in the Dick" t-shirt!”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“Hilary Clinton is just as bad as the rest of them in Washington!”

★ Spotlighted from Meg Nolastname

“I feel like the more they bombard us with shit to get angry about the less attention we pay to it because "Theres just so much of it". I feel like it breeds apathy like cancer cells and defeats us before we even reach the front door.”

★ Spotlighted from Paul Miller

“Sorry that you have such strife Lee. Things can always be better, and by the way they are, compared to previous milleniums”

★ Spotlighted from Tom Taker

“Thanks to Lee, I now know that Katie exists. I jumped on Twitter and followed her.”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“Shit...why did you have to go there? I love avocados.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Avocados are mediocre. I don't get the hype.”

★ Spotlighted from Lisa Del Rey

“Paul - all that strife Lee was ranting about was about me. He fights for people like me.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“It's sat that's even a situation. The Violinist Thought Experiment solved the abortion issue for me totally if I ever had any doubt.”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“Wasn't it George Carlin that said something about how they only care about you after you hit 18, then you're perfect for the war machine. "If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked!"”

★ Spotlighted from Meg Nolastname

“WBC is a sore on the ass of humanity”

★ Spotlighted from Michael Micklow

“@ Ava. Maybe. Him or Bill Hicks. ONe thing Carlin did say is, fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity!”

★ Spotlighted from Ava Wilson

“My friend Charles Clymer has been invited to speak there. When he asked if they could invite some women to speak about women's struggles, his request was rejected. They said women had been dominating the women's rights talk 'throughout history'!”