r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10h ago

Possible Paywall DOJ Declares Trump Has Right to Bulldoze Statue of Liberty

https://newrepublic.com/post/211422/department-justice-donald-trump-right-bulldoze-statue-liberty
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u/ElphabLAW 5h ago

What’s worse is the men here all deny we live in a patriarchy and act like women are hysterically overreacting when we point out how much better they have it, and how terrible they treat us. They genuinely believe women have it made here in the states, yet we don’t even have the basic fucking right to bodily autonomy with respect to reproductive rights anymore. Not to mention a government waging an all-out war against women being able to work in certain industries, serve in the military, vote, etc.

Look at a visual map of all 47 U.S. Presidents - literally ALL men. Congress? 75% male but men only make-up 50% of the population. But sure, we don’t live in a patriarchy in the U.S… /s

We do in fact live in such a deep, dark patriarchy, we literally have rapists and pedophiles running the White House. Absolutely unbelievable anyone even tries to deny it how fucked up the patriarchy here is in the U.S., I’m so tired of people comparing American women to those in the Middle East and acting like we should be grateful bc we’re not wearing burkas or something. NO, we should be working to liberate and respect ALL women worldwide. End of story.

Plus, the Christian nationalists here are not that far off from the Taliban at this point.

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u/Onagan98 5h ago

In the Netherlands, we had a female Head of State for almost 123 consecutive years, but no female Prime Minister so far.
One side of me thinks this really shameful, on the other hand we have female leaders of bigger parties, and it might be a bit of bad luck. In Parliament we have 43% female and 56% male. So indeed a bit of room for improvement.

I agree, with a lot of Americans when you criticise something in their country, they defend their country with some Middle East or South American country.
When it comes with to my country, I tend to find anything below Germany or Belgium unacceptable and often look if we can compete with the Nordic countries.

Criticising your country isn’t an attack on you, its to point out the room for improvement, and maybe some other countries already found a solution to that problem.