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36. again, really?

did you not actually read what I wrote? The post we are replying to right now? My commentary had nothing to do with Ms. Arquette as a women but as a member of the top .01% of income earners. Everyone has the right to an opinion and to express it. I appreciate the sentiment, I do. I find this never-ending debate over what should be "the easy call" tiresome. Ms. Arquette's position and subsequent public stance isn't ground breaking or controversial. In the world of questions there are to answer, this is one of the easy ones to answer. YES, all people should be treated fairly and as equals. A great many politicians, heavily influenced by very wealthy people, have made these questions way to hard to resolve. Because of that I am more interested addressing issues such as this at the grass-roots level with real people that have real income issues and struggle to fight legislation, everyday, that tells them what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.
The ERA was first proposed in 1972. Congress has had long enough to decide. People need to stop looking to politicians and movie stars and twitter and facebook to solve our issues. Typing "#women's rights" into twitter isnt going to make that goal anymore real. Lackluster politicians and 1% income earners are not going to make any real changes. At the end of the day there goal is to maintain the status quo because the status quo gives them their power. Only people, in mass, can effect real, long-lasting, change.

Lastly, you have impugned my honor and integrity on this thread, comments I did not earn or deserve. I will no longer continue this comversation with you. You don't know me or what I do yet you haphazardly label me a misogynist. I've been a Democrat since before I knew what a Democrat was. Why? Because I have always identified with what I consider core principles that I have always felt anchor me to the Democratic Party: the equal and fair treatment of everyone without regard to race, sex, national origin or sexual orientation. Not once I have diminished Ms. Arquette as a women nor have I impugned her right to speak because she is a women. I have only addressed this topic in the context of her being in the top 1% (actually top .01%) of income earners and have stated as much in several replies on this thread. I have never not been on the same side of this issue as you, I apparently just have very different opinion of why this is even an issue and how to address it.