And on this Women's Equality Day, or a few days ago when he had a spare minute, Our Glorious Leader did proclaim:
Today, American women enjoy unprecedented opportunities in business, education, politics, and countless other aspects of our society. Historically, however, women suffered grave inequalities and were denied some of the most fundamental benefits of citizenship.Each year on August 26th, we mark the important anniversary of the day on which women gained the right to vote. In celebrating Women's Equality Day, we remember the brave and determined individuals who worked to ensure that all women have the opportunity to participate in our democracy. Their dedication to the suffrage movement improved our society, and continues to inspire women today.
[. . .] In Afghanistan, the Taliban used violence and fear to deny Afghan women access to education, health care, mobility, and the right to vote. Our coalition has liberated Afghanistan and restored fundamental human rights and freedoms to Afghan women, and all the people of Afghanistan. Young girls in Afghanistan are able to attend schools for the first time.
Mind you, at a different part of the White House site, we have:
This is the first time in several years that many Afghan boys and girls--especially girls--will have the chance to attend school. The people of Afghanistan have been hurt by years of civil war and a brutal government that didn't give its citizens the freedoms that we enjoy. When the Taliban regime was running the country (from 1996 through 2001), girls were banned from the classroom. Women teachers weren't allowed to teach. Not many boys went to school either. Only 32 percent of Afghanistan's 4.4 million children were enrolled in school in 1999. Nearly all girls, 92 percent, were not in school.
Maybe the Proclamation meant young girls born after the Taliban took power. Yeah, that's the ticket.
And we're back to the ever-popular agentless passive again. Naming no names, or even groups, "women suffered grave inequalities and were denied some of the most fundamental benefits of citizenship."
Wankers.
Loving the site kid - Bush is a mutha fucka and the sooner the american "people" realise they're being mentally shafted and get this fucker out, the better. you know - the women issue is but the tiniest tip of the collosus that is the pro "fuck the earth" iceberg!
Love having an agenda pushed on "my" day. It's simply fabulous.
Dru, what agenda? The Prez was just noting how women in Afghanistan are moving closer to enjoying the rights their sisters here have, with the suggestion that this was our intent all along.
You're too suspicious. I suspect hysteria caused by overeducation.
Tunde, most of the American people ain't vote for Bush's dumb ass to begin with. . .
I have no education. Any paranoia you note is a result of real life experience.
I sure as heck didn't vote for Shrub II, but I'm real glad to hear that women and children aren't being oppressed no more in Afghanistan. That's mighty white of him to see to that personally and all.
I swear, that hogsucking shitnozzle needs my feminist foot up his recently colonoscopied ass in the worst possible way.
"That's mighty white..."
hee.
I haven't heard that in a while.
oh, so the glass ceiling's gone and women have every opportunity? the you-ess-of-ay is the standard now by which we measure women's equality? um. please.
By the internal logic of that bit of drivel, women have equality of opportunity becasue they have the vote. Thus, so must minorities, after that nasty civil-rights business. All work necessary to create equality is done. So the differnce in income between minoritiesandwimmin (thanks for that phrase, Aaron!)and white men must therefore exist because minorities are lazy and women hysterical and inherently unfit for the workplace.
*Sigh* What a relief to have all of that figured out! And on Women's Equality Day, nonetheless! If we can now funnel all that activism no longer needed to achieve social equality into, say, exploiting the Arctic Wildlife Reserve more fully, why, everything will be jim-dandy!
I fucking hate these people. Have I mentioned that recently?
Garrity, it always bears repeating.
kd, are you suggesting otherwise? I vaguely remember some of the evilnastybad EUrocrats having laws requiring their legislatures have a gender breakdown which accurately reflected women's presence in society, but there are like 13 in Senate now, and women are only about 13% of the US population, right?
Jason, you and Hanne are being angry black guys again. No wonder the warbloggers rarely post here.
Dru, I applaud your lack of education. Everyone knows too much schoolin' makes women's uteruses fall out. Or is that lifting heavy objects?
Really, my sis had a job bussing tables at a restaurant, and one of her female co-workers told her if she lifted a tray that was too heavy, her uterus would fall out. I can only assume this was based on personal experience.
i'm still laughing at "That's mighty white..."
ho ho ho, hee hee hee.
What I find sad, Garrity, is that there are Christian Schools teaching kids that women are obviously unfit for the workforce because they make less money. That they make less money proves that they're unfit.
Not only that, but a project containing this conclusion was one of the award-winning Science Fair projects this year.
Stellar, innit?
"i'm still laughing at 'That's mighty white...'"
[snicker] and all this time I thought it was only Black folk who said that.
VASpider, one of the things I enjoy most about many of the fundamentalist Chrsitians I ahve met is that they have, honest to God, been taught to think entirely without logic. You can nail them with logic a thousand times, and they just come righ on back into the disputationas if no points were scored. It's like boxing with one of those blow-up wighted thingamajigs.
So the correlation-as-causation logic in such a science project surprises me not at all.
Let's try turning that gun right around, shall we? Just for grins?
Many right-wing misogynist Fundamentalist Chrsitians are assmasters.
All right-wing Fundamentalist Christians beleive passionaltely in God.
Therefore, God is turning perfectly nice people into assmasters, for our amusement.
I can't help it. My sixth grade teacher, Etta Mae Lovejoy (bless her fierce heart) used to mutter "why, that's mighty white of you" whenever the principal or the superintendent descended upon us to provide us with some dubious boon or other.
It took me years before I realized "white" in that context meant anything other than "stupid condescending presumptive motherfucker who's trying to 'fix' things for me because of what he thinks I must need." I still use the phrase when it's applicable, and I still use "white" as an epithet sometimes, my own pink hide notwithstanding. So chuckle all you like, 'sokay by me.