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Tracey McCormick
Denver, CO
Feminist, writer, educator, managing editor at GreatHistory.com
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Tracey commented on the article |The Battle still rages, folks. Just ask anyone who hasn't been promoted because she's not thin, pretty, or sporting a nice rack.
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Tracey commented on the article |As an educator, these kind of statistics sadden me. It breaks my heart to see motivated, intelligent and otherwise good students have their education compromised because of their unstable home lives. And the financial reality, as Ms. Moriarty notes, is that schools with high numbers of homeless students simply do not have the resources to comply with the McKinney-Vento Act. It's tragic.
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Tracey commented on the article |Wow. If not for all the ad hominem attacks here, we would have had a great discussion.
Since the First Amendment is my favorite, I quote, for everyone's benefit, the portion that deals with the state and religion:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Congress respects/identifies/favors no religion and does nothing to get in the way of anyone practicing his or her preferred religion.
Is this a great country or what? You get to believe what you want and say what you want. God bless the First Amendment.
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Tracey commented on the article |
Hi, Michael-
Thanks for the great collection of quotations! Unfortunately they're all from 20th century women with misplaced anger. Tis a shame they get the most press. I guess it's not sexy to be a feminist and NOT be a hater.
Rather than being naive, I'd say I am a bit too scholarly for the likes of Ms. Steinem and her brood. My brand of feminisim comes Camille Paglia (Sexual Personae), John Stuart Mill (On the Subjection of Women, On Liberty), Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own), and of course, the MoAF [Mother of All Feminists], Mary Wollstonecraft, who started this whole mess with A Vindication of the Rights of Women, publication date, 1791.
Wollstonecraft would have written more on this subject, I'm sure, but she died while giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley, who went on to write Frankenstein.
Thanks, Michael, for helping me clarify. Here's a short read on the MoAF, if you are inclined:
http://greathistory.com/the-straight-talk-express-about-a-rather-taboo-subject.htm.
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Tracey commented on the article |
Thanks for reminding us that feminists concentrate on empowering women, not disempowering men. I agree with Ms. Schneider's comment that when societies have women fully participating, they tend to be happier and more productive. Ms. Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, would certainly agree. Keep up the good work Senator Gillibrand!
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