Jill Biden: It's time for men to step up for women's rights

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ZEKE MILLER today

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday used a Women’s History Month event at the White House to call on men to step up and fight to protect women’s rights.

The first lady, speaking ahead of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, didn’t mince words as she lamented that women find themselves relitigating “battles that we thought we had won a long time ago.”

“We need more men to hold each other accountable when women are being hurt or being left behind,” she said.

The Supreme Court declared last June that states can ban abortion. Since then, Republican-controlled legislatures across the country have rolled out regulations shortening the period when a woman can get an abortion and otherwise restricting abortion access.



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[dlk]

1. Dr. Biden is right

Men who truly care about women and girls need to step up. This is a human rights issue. Sitting on the sidelines speaks volumes.

[niyad]

4. Exactly.

[2naSalit]

2. They sure as hell...

Can't survive without us. They need to wise up and fast because the times of women being nice is OVER. We will be taking control of the bus and if it doesn't happen in a nice way, we'll do it in ways they are not going to like and will probably hurt. We will succeed because survival of our species does depend on women.

[niyad]

5. Exactly.

[2naSalit]

8. And we could probably do without...

Most of them. Keep some around for breeding, a diverse group for genetics but beyond that...

Can you tell I've had enough of life long subjugation?

[niyad]

10. "Herland"???

[2naSalit]

11. I kind of like the sound of that.

[niyad]

12. An early feminist novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (author of "The Yellow Wallpaper",

which was dramatised on PBS). The wiki entry on the novel is actually quite good.

[2naSalit]

14. Thanks...

I'll check it out!

[SouthernDem4ever]

19. "Keep some around for breeding"

I volunteer!

[electric_blue68]

22. Let's also keep the Feminist Men... the rest? Eh, not so much!

[2naSalit]

24. Agreed.

[electric_blue68]

25. 🙂 👍

[niyad]

3. Thank you, Dr. Biden!

[TeamProg]

6. Absolutely!! nt

[gademocrat7]

7. The First Lady

Is absolutely right.

[hlthe2b]

9. Damned right...

Feminists have not limited their activism to women's rights, but LGBTQ, racial equity, and others. I have lived enough decades to know it does not always work in the other direction.

Power in numbers folks. We cannot allow our individual differences to divide us.

[hamsterjill]

26. Wisdom!!!

I totally agree. We need not only men but the other organized groups who have been marginalized to join us and speak out!!!

[musclecar6]

13. As

As a lifelong Democrat, and more importantly, lifelong women’s advocate, I could not agree more with Dr. Jill Biden. I want my wife and daughter to have the same advantages that I have had throughout the years as a man. Also included in that thought is my granddaughter who is 15 and as time goes on I hope they don’t have to put up with all the bullshit that men foisted upon them over the years.

My wife is a retired high-level GM with a major corporation, and my daughter is a high-level GS employee with the US government. They have encountered the usual amount of lack of help from men along the way and dealt with all the abuse, not dissimilar from our famous Orange Nazi, but along the same lines of difficulty dealing with wildly insecure men. It needs to stop. Our biggest issue that we have to deal with as Democrats is the lack of help from the Republican side of the aisle. They want to take us back with that MAGA bullshit and hopefully as elections go forward we get a lot more voters on our side to stop these assholes.

[Mike Nelson]

15. Yes!

... women's rights ARE human rights.

[Hope22]

16. Yes, yes, finally the voice of reason!

This is the message I have been saying at home. Only to be met with blank stares. Women are dying needlessly and good men say nothing. Make the calls, send the emails no matter how hopeless it feels. If you think these gestures are fruitless think how women feel when their physical lives are in danger. When their lives are out of their control! Yet…they still do the things….

Thank you Jill. I need you! Tears here for the hopelessness I have felt.

[zentrum]

17. Wonder if a woman could

.....bring a case to SCOTUS that makes the punishment for a man not paying child support as draconian as the punishment put on woman who gets an abortion.

[Wounded Bear]

18. K & R...nt

[appalachiablue]

20. Amen, and get to work. No time to waste!

[Hope22]

21. Kick and recommend! N/t

[electric_blue68]

23. Alright, First Lady Dr Biden! THIS!

[RobinA]

27. This Woman

is SO SICK of all this identity stuff. All of it.

[Mysterian]

28. Real men aren't afraid of women

Something the redneck bumpkins don't seem to understand.