🙃 Morning, CoSo.
I thought this was going to be a wee news brief for #OnlySky.
Instead I wrote about the ERA's latest death in a way that returns us to the whole history of its intersectionality with labour rights, and more.
I... think I'm getting a little fed up with the way that the serious socioeconomic issues facing the US (and world) are being hijacked by trans panic, queer panic, and general hostility toward women?
Just a lil' bit?
#Humanism #Politics
https://onlysky.media/mclark/what-a-failed-equal-rights-amendment-reveals-about-us-politics/
@MLClark
My father opposed the ERA, and when I questioned him about it as a child, he told me I didn't deserve to make as much money as men because I would become pregnant one day.
I love my dad. But that's a conversation that I will never forget. It was hurtful.
Now, I support my family and myself, and it's been a whole battle, still is.
@MLClark
So, yes.
Trans women are not the threat to me politicians are telling me they are! Never have been, never will be.
Politicians are working the antitrans rhetoric like a bunch of two dollar strippers begging for tips.
@janallmac The difference being that, when it comes to people stripping for a living, that's honest labour and deserves to be paid far better.
What these politicians are doing is... in a league of debasement unto itself, not to be uttered in the same breath as the hard gig of sex work.
(Happy Friday, all the same!)
@MLClark You are right! I wasn't very happy with that metaphor, but I couldn't think of a better one in the moment.
Whatever it is, it's debasing, desperate, and dishonest.