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Self-Hating GOP Women

by BooMan
Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:14:05 PM EST

The fact that only three House Republicans (none of them women) voted for final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is just stunning. When the Senate passed the bill, every woman in the Senate voted for it. That makes sense, since the bill ensures women cannot be discriminated against in the workplace. But, amazingly, Republicans (including all the their women in the House) are totally into discriminating against women. What explains this?

Self-Hating GOP Women | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (4.00 / 2)

Phyllis Schlafly syndrome.

by maryb2004 on Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:36:51 PM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (4.00 / 2)

Their attitude is "I got mine; why can't you get yours?" In their minds, being a woman didn't prevent them from becoming Senators and they know for a fact that they're being paid the same as male Senators. Therefore, there is no glass ceiling, there are no barriers to the advancement of women and if a woman is paid less then it must be because she is worth less in the "free market" either personally thru lack of effort or generally because women are often absent from their career paths while being mothers or, you know, suffering from cramps.

This is the same mentality that justifies discrimination against people who start life in poverty. Some middle-class white guy thinks, hey, I got student loans and went to college so what's wrong with "those people" who can't graduate from high school. At this very moment, poor kids of color in inner city schools are being told nothing stands in the way of their becoming President of the United States... except having an intellectual mother, being given a solid middle-class upbringing and attending a private high school... but, but, it's not your color holding you back. Or sex. Or gender. Or lack of verbal skills instilled when you were 4 years old...

by sjct on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 08:52:42 AM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (4.00 / 2)

Their attitude is "I got mine; why can't you get yours?"

You're too kind to them. Their attitude is actually, "I got mine / I'm getting mine - F*** You!" It's a callous disregard for others, pure and simple.

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 09:30:04 AM EST
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Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 1)

Actually, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Lisa Murkowski all voter for the Lilly Ledbetter Act. It's the House members that voted against it.

by BooMan on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 09:42:33 AM EST
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Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 0)

Party affiliation trumps all.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:27:58 PM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 0)

Bro's before ho's!!!

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins

by halo0 (philiott at gmail dotcom) on Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:38:14 PM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 0)

What explains it?

Schaflyism

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Tue Jan 27th, 2009 at 11:30:07 PM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 0)

I heard it began in Stepford.

"I never trust people who don't laugh." Maya Angelou, March 5, 2009

by Indianadem on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 07:05:44 AM EST

I think it is the southern strategy (none / 0)

Apparently those in the south who espouse the republican view are not only bigoted but misogynistic as well. AND they want us to be a third world country. Check out this documentary about a Kentucky clinic. The documentary is in: Dailykos diary on healthcare

Grandma Jo

by glitterscale (glitteryscale@yahoo.com) on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 10:22:36 AM EST

Re: Self-Hating GOP Women (none / 0)

It's the grand tradition of Ayn Rand. My (all girl) high school assigned Anthem. I could never understand how a women could write a book where the female character is such a non-entity.

Land of the watched, because of the cowed.

by hens teeth on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 11:41:55 AM EST

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