My question for Kamala Harris at tonight's debate, "Senator Harris - What is a woman?"

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[–]divingrightintowork 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

What are the issues with the Fairness for All act? Is that the one that makes sports sex based? And apparently other less good stuff?

[–]BEB[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

As far as I can tell (and I am far from a legal expert), the Republican Fairness for All act is close to the Democrat's Equality Act, but allows religious exemptions.

The silence from the media on both is not helping. I have brought up the Equality Act with Americans from all walks of life and no one in my real life had heard of it. This legislation that will strip women of our rights is going to be passed with the tacit approval of all those voting for Democratic politicians without voters even knowing about it, and that really pisses me off.

I don't think the Fairness For All Act is going to gain that much traction because I don't think Republican women are going to let it get far. Conservative women can be lionesses.

I will try to find out more about the Fairness For All Act and post it here.

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The silence from the media on both is not helping. I have brought up the Equality Act with Americans from all walks of life and no one in my real life had heard of it. This legislation that will strip women of our rights is going to be passed with the tacit approval of all those voting for Democratic politicians without voters even knowing about it, and that really pisses me off.

Some other recent issues that the media were totally silent on:

The TPP

People protesting against the DAPL (oil lines on native land)

The democrats (and republicans) voting to sell your entire browsing history to anyone [Notice how quiet the dems were once this was law.... tells you all you need to know about their 'resisting' trumpf].

Biden's Rapes.

One party controls all the outlets, one party controls the other (fox). CNN had a contributor in 2016 who was feeding debate questions in advance to one side (you can guess who that was done for).

Our media is almost entirely beholden to one political party; the neoliberal neocon fucks who have stolen our democracy with the 'illusion' of choice. Notice how every single asshole in the bush administration is supporting Biden now, but they're going to RESIST trump, sure thing. TO me, Bush/Trump, you cant say bush is any better, with the hundreds of thousands he killed. And seeing democrats embrace these bush repubs just showed me that it was only 'fake' resistence during the bush administration. Hell here is joe trying to get dems to go into Iraq (before bush was even in OFFICE!!!!).

I don't think the Fairness For All Act is going to gain that much traction because I don't think Republican women are going to let it get far. Conservative women can be lionesses.

I agree, in that right leaning women seem to criticize their leaders a bit more often than many modern left leaning women do. Compared to 10 years ago (ending of the bush era), I think that the republicans have switched places with american liberals as the party of groupthink, and demonizing people for criticising Bush Cheney and now Bidenmala.

I will try to find out more about the Fairness For All Act and post it here.

This is an interesting writeup that leans slightly religious, as the group that wrote it, however it seems fairly balanced, from its analysis, but I havent read a ton about FFA yet, so ymmv.

[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have so many well-meaning friends who just vote for the Democrats, and mindlessly endorse the Dems' entire platform, because they're just too busy to research what the Democrats are actually up to.

They just nod along to NPR on their commute, maybe scan the NEW YORK TIMES at breakfast, and so never even know about the issues you mentioned.

And I agree that Biden/Harris are neo-liberals. It also skeeves me out that the same neo-conservatives who lied us into Iraq II are very active never-Trumpers. Bill Kristol, David Frum, all the military and intelligence people who've spoken out against Trump.

Trump would have gotten us into the war both some Democrats and Republicans want against Iran eventually, but I think he's moving too slow for the war mongers of both parties. Plus Trump is so unstable, and clueless, he'd probably accidentally launch the attack meant for Iran on France or something.

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks so mucH! That would be great - from your brief write up I don't think the FFA act sounds awful - though it depends on how they define religious exemption.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here's the Fairness For All Act on women's sex-segregated space.

tl;dr Like the Democrats' Equality Act, the Republicans' Fairness For All Act allows any man to self-identify and access women's sex-segregated spaces (well, at least bathrooms and locker rooms)

The most telling thing about right wing criticism of the Fairness For ALL Act is that none that I've read mentions that it puts women's privacy dignity and safety at risk.

NEITHER PARTY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT WOMEN.

"Transgender men and women use restrooms and locker rooms for the same reasons everyone else does. And when they do, they value safety and privacy just like everyone else.

It’s already a crime to enter a restroom or a locker room to harm someone. With or without this bill, illegal behavior is illegal.

Protections for transgender persons like those found in the Fairness for All Act work.
For years, over 20 states and more than 200 municipalities already have laws protecting transgender people from discrimination.

The FFA Act explicitly prohibits people from asserting gender identity for any “improper purpose.”

Nothing in this law weakens existing laws against illegal behavior. Assault and harassment remain illegal.

The FFA Act expands privacy by requiring public schools, public accommodations, and employers to accommodate requests for additional privacy. This will increase the availability of private, single-user facilities for everyone.

Provisions like those in the FFA Act have widespread support from hundreds of organizations across the country.

More than 250 organizations that do work to prevent and treat survivors of violence support laws that protect transgender people in restrooms and locker rooms.
These include The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, The National Center for Victims of Crime, The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and more.

https://fairnessforall.org/resources/

[–]missdaisycan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

https://heritageaction.com/blog/letter-to-the-hill-the-fairness-for-all-act

US Conservatives against this act spell out their opposition.

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds not wrong. Thanks!