If you’re sensing a pattern that’s because there is one: Poor black people are screwed poor white people benefit. The transparently racist nature of these waivers would be laughable if the consequences weren’t so devastating. How about we just nix this work requirement nonsense all together and pretend none of this ever happened?
via Republicans Realize Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel… If You’re White and Maybe Vote Republican
Feminism’s Second Wave began in the 1960s, an era of intense change brought on by a culture of thriving social movements in the United States. In this decade, the “Women’s Movement” operated alongside the Civil Rights movement, cultural nationalist movements like Chicano and Black Power, anti-Vietnam War student protests, and LGBTQ protests. This version of feminism was built around the idea of a “universal sisterhood” that united all women on account of their shared sex.
via If You Must Think Of Feminism In The Wave Narrative, Here Are The Most Important Moments In The…
University professor Hazel Barrett, whose grandmother supported the suffragette movement, said people of all classes got involved, adding: “Just look at them, ordinary women”.
Sheree Davey, who came with her young son to see the display, said: “It’s incredible. It inspires you to learn a bit more.
“You know the basics but there’s so much more to it.”
Victoria Taylor, a tourist visiting from Australia, said: “It’s a great way to engage people. It’s not confronting but it’s very prominent.”
via Votes for women: Pardoning suffragettes ‘complicated’ – BBC News
But this has not always been the case. In the past, the King or Queen had huge powers and there was very little that ordinary people could do to have a say in how they were governed.
In the early 1800s, there were still very few people who could vote – and the ones that could were all men. Women didn’t have a say at all.
via 6 February 1918: Women get the vote for the first time – CBBC Newsround
I can’t be the only person in the world to have discovered as I grew up that life was a bit more complicated than that, and opportunity for women wasn’t really going to be defined by Kylie Minogue’s example of switching careers when she fancied it. Personal choices were a lot more complex. And yes, reality crept in – women were, and are, treated differently in so many parts of life. Without question, that decades-long struggle finds its own echoes today.
The gender gap in voting is fairly small. Other demographic factors have a far bigger impact on people’s likelihood to vote for each party.
In the past, social class was a dominant factor. Middle-class people were more likely to vote Conservative and working-class people were more likely to vote Labour.
Recently that’s changed. In 2017, age and education were far more important. Young voters and voters with degrees were more likely to back Labour. Older voters and those with fewer qualifications were more likely to back the Conservatives.
But how do the sexes differ when it comes to elections?
If we look back over time the gender gap in voting has changed.
The British Election Study has data going back to the 1964 general election. In the 1960s and 1970s it found that women were more likely than men to vote Conservative and less likely to vote Labour. It’s not easy to find a definitive explanation.
via Reality Check: What if women hadn’t been allowed to vote? – BBC News
Historian Kathy Atherton says people nowadays can find it “surprising” that women were involved in an anti-suffrage movement, but that it’s important to “put yourself in their shoes”.
“There would have been a general acceptance that women were intellectually inferior and emotional – and women would have believed that as well as men – so they didn’t have the capacity to make political judgements,” she says.
“It’s a really hierarchical society and the white male is at the top of the heap.
“There’s a fear that you’re upsetting the natural order of things, even going so far as thinking the colonies would be affected if they felt that Britain was being ruled by women.”
via 100 Women: The female protesters against giving women the vote – BBC News
Margaret Bondfield was one of very few working class women who rose to the top of the suffrage movement.
Born in Chard, Somerset, in 1873, the second youngest of eleven children, she became an apprentice at a drapers in Brighton aged 14.
There she saw how the daily grind wore down the women workers and affected their self-respect. She observed they were left with little time or energy to pursue interests away from work, with many girls seeming intent on getting married as early as possible in order to escape the drudgery.
Ms Bondfield left Brighton and went to live with her brother in London – working, again, in a shop. She became an active trade unionist and was shocked by the working culture of long hours, low wages, poor diet and requirement to “live in” in often dismal dormitories.
via Actresses and arsonists: Women who won the vote – BBC News
“It’s not possible to imagine women winning the vote without the suffragettes,” says Ms Connelly,
“The militant organising, particularly of working class women, pointed to the possibility of a movement that would grow and could potentially become an enormous mass movement.”
via 100 Women: Suffragists or suffragettes – who won women the vote? – BBC News
In 1996, legal scholar Carrie Menkel-Meadow wrote that oppositional presentation of facts — that is, the adversarial system as taught through the Socratic method — may not be the best way to arrive at the truth. “Polarized debate,” she wrote, “simply distorts the truth, leaves out important information, simplifies complexity, and obfuscates rather than clarifies.” Menkel-Meadow explained that “truth is illusive, partial, interpretable, dependent on the characteristics of the knowers as well as the known, and, most importantly, complex.” Likewise, criminal justice scholar Katherine van Wormer lamented in 2009 that the adversarial system hearkens back to “primitive practices related to combat”; Australian professor and former attorney Kate Galloway called it a “performance piece.” Restorative justice, by contrast, has been called humanistic.
via The Inherent Feminism of Restorative Justice – All Rise – Medium
