women's liberation

Open Thread - 04-14-23 - Gender Memories from the Courtroom

Not talking about gender identities, but born to a gender at a time when Women's Lib was trying to accomplish something like societal and work place equity and parity for women, who still make something like 65 cents to a man's $1.00. Specifically, I will address the female gender practicing law back in the 1980s, and wearing dresses and skirts. This is my experience in Southeast Texas courtrooms.

NOTES FROM THE RADICAL MARGIN: “STOP THIS TWO-PARTY MUSIC!” OR, “WHAT HAPPENS AT GEORGETOWN PREP, STAYS AT GEORGETOWN PREP”.

So, Kavanaugh seals the deal of the Supreme Court among all the goodwill and collegiality required for the occasion. That is to say, he affirms the trend already set by a court which had pronounced Bush to be the “elected” President in 2000, and had decided that corporations were people just like us, and so on.