My "People Skills" Are "Rusty"

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I like that she made it possible for trans people to change their gender on their passport (thus making it possible for them to legally change their gender).

I like that she was a vocal critic of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and helped end it.

I like that she believes climate change exists and is a problem caused by humans.

I like that she wants to raise the national minimum wage to at least $12 per hour.

I like that she wants to raise taxes on the very wealthy.

I like that she wants to preserve the Affordable Care Act, which made it possible for me to get health insurance and afford the medicine that makes me well.

I like that she’s been an unabashed supporter of family planning and a woman’s right to choose.

I like that she worked hard to prevent deadbeat dads from avoiding child support through bankruptcy.

I like that she’s got productive, common sense ideas for immigration reform with a clear, full path to citizenship.

I like that she wants to close background check loopholes for buying guns.

I like that she’s been a critic of current campaign finance laws.

I like that she finished her time as a Senator with a 95% rating from the Human Rights Campaign.

That’s a very good question and thank you for asking so politely. 

The word feminism was coined by Charles Fourier in 1837, a French philosopher who advocated for the emancipation of women because he believed society treated women as slaves. We weren’t allowed to vote, own anything, or work a real job. Women were ruled by their fathers/household patriarch until they married at which time they’d be under the rule of their husband. If a woman did not belong to male household she was shunned by society and had very little means to make money, most of them unsavory. You know the idiom “rule of thumb”? That comes from a running joke that started in the 1600s, and was still around in Fourier’s time, that said it was okay for a man to beat a woman with a stick as long as it wasn’t any thicker than his thumb.