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when they arrived in two thousand and one. There's an interesting article though, that I want to draw our attention to, which is really just using Afghanistan as a hook so much as understanding the politics of nations that have anti women agendas. And it's really interesting because I have to

say this. I tweeted yesterday that some days I think about Hillary Clinton probably more than you know, most people where it's I think about her walking around, you know, her home or wherever, listening to the news and being absolutely and thoroughly disgusted by the things that are unfolding. That she warned the country of a decade ago, right

or more. Hillary Clinton had been talking about women and girls issues when it wasn't popular when there was no hashtag, when you know, she was being lambasted for being a first lady who said, yeah, I don't want to fucking

bake your pies. Right, we can applaud that now, But then an entire group of women came for her, and it would be that same group of women that would upset her ability to clench the highest office in the land in twenty sixteen, when fifty three percent of white women decided to vote against their own and instead vote for a traitorous, treasonous, misogynist, islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, racist piece

of shit Donald Trump. So what is really interesting to me is that the Economist put out an article and this was the tweet that they sent out. And if I were Hillary Clinton, I think that I would have gone out in my backyard on my balcony where whatever state she is at, and scream so loud that like it would alarm everyone in the towns nearby. This is

what it read. There is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton was on to something a decade ago when she said the subjugation of women is a threat to the common

security of our world. Now you read this article and Hillary Clinton, because she is better than me said in a tweet responding to the Economists, thanks for noticing, because all you can do right now if you are Hillary Clinton, is throw an incredible amount of shade at the fuckery that has maybe possibly and I guess we will see with the midterm elections, wholly and completely gutted our democracy. But the title of the article is this in the Economists,

Sex and Geopolitics, Why nations that fail Women Fail. I think that it's incredibly important, and I said this last week. You know, it is not lost on me that the United States has the audacity to go around the world to lambast and to shame other countries for their treatment

of women. Now, while we may not have outwardly facing violent or brutal punishments for women, the policies that this country supports and upholds are just as devastating as I would say, probably potentially being stoned to death or beaten right,

Because here's the thing. When we live in a country where we know that one and four women are going to be raped, right when you go on to a college campus looking to your left, your right, your front, and your back, and knowing that several of you in that orientation assembly will be raped and we do nothing about that. It is just a matter of fact. Don't put your cup down, don't wear this outfit, don't go to this party. The onus always being on the woman.

When you live in a country that goes on the world proclaiming how important education is for girls and how we need to educate girls and how dare you be this barbaric an archaic type of government. Well, I think about how women in this country are doubly triply educated

in comparisons to men. I lifted up last week many analytics and reports on the fact that the pandemic, but even before the pandemic, that men were not looking for higher education or attending post secondary in the way that women are and have been, And that what happens when men leave university when they dare not go into college, right, when we have a class of men that will be under educated, right and young, and possibly a lot more

aggressive right towards their women counterparts that are overly educated gainfully Floyd, And what does that create in a society. You look at America in the ways that women will enter into the workforce, and we all know because each and every year when we do this Women's Equal pay Day, and then Black Women's Equal pay Day, and then Latina

women Equal pay Day. That we know right that women do not make equal to the amount as men, and we know that this should in fact be illegal, but we don't have a Congress and have not had a president that does anything more then read us empty mantras

without backing that up with policy. So while we may not have women dressed in a particular way in this country or keep them out of school, we are most certainly keeping and holding ourselves back as a nation by the way in which we hold women back, right, because we have this false choice that we have women have to make in this country, I have a family or should I continue working, because we have not set up an infrastructure that allows both of those things to be true.

And less, of course, you are wealthy two million women, and I'm sure that number is much higher. But when first reported in the midst of twenty twenty, Stephanie Rule said on MSNBC that two million women had left the workforce. Why because they were strapped with having to both homeschool right as well as hold on to their own jobs. And at the end of it, when push came to shove. What did they have to give up the ability to

be able to maintain building an income outside of the household. So, whether or not we say explicitly like the Taliban and other archaic governments, we do a lot of the same similar shit. We just use euphemisms and news. Right. It is the appearance of freedom for women, It is the appearance of equity for women, but we don't actually practice that.

It is why we have so many subgroups and if you work in corporate America, you have you know, employee resource groups that are for women, that are for this. Then we talk about mentorship programs and pipelines and all of these things. Why because many of the policies that we have on the books and that we continue to okay in this country are steeped in patriarchy and misogyny.

So when the economists then has the audacity to say, well, you know, maybe that Hillary Clinton, you know, the most qualified person ever to run for president of these United States, says something that maybe you know, she wasn't off base, that maybe you know, this very intelligent, highly educated, strategic woman knew what the fuck she was talking about, but no one listened to her because she was in fact a woman. So here is a bit of this piece.

After America and its allies toppled the Taliban in two thousand and one, primary school enrollment of Afghan girls rose from zero percent to above eighty percent. Infant mortality fell by half. Forced marriages were made illegal, Many of those schools were ropey, and many families ignored the law. But no one seriously doubts that Afghan women and girls have made great gains in the past twenty years, or that

those gains are now in jeopardy. The United States is quote committed to advancing gender equality through its foreign policy. According to the State Department, bequeathing billions of dollars worth of arms and a medium sized country to a group of violent misogynists is an odd way to show it.

Of course, foreign policy involves difficult trade offs, but the is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton was on to something when she said a decade ago that the subjugation of women is a threat to the common security for our world societies. They write that oppressed women are far more likely to be violent and unstable. They go on there are several possible reasons for this. In many places, girls

are selectively aborted or fatally neglected. This has led to skewed sex ratios, which mean millions of young men are doomed to remain single. Frustrated young men are more likely to commit violent crimes or join rebel groups. I want to pause here for a minute because this is something that again we don't discuss right which is the psychology

of white male rage. And I'm particularly talking about this in the context of the United States and the texts of who we look to right as being the quote unquote norm and the quote unquote mainstream, and what we have seen in this country. And again this is just based on my observation, not any report that has come out, but I'm assuming that one will, which is this, Over the last ten plus years, according to the FBI reporting,

there's been a rise in white supremacist groups. There has also been a rise in hate crimes and violence, oftentimes perpetuated at the hands of white men. We know that a majority of mass shootings, for instance, have been done at the hands of white men. There is also right as we have seen a either status quo for women's rights or a rollback, which we are seeing right now happen in Texas and the domino effect that is going

to unfold with red state governors. Does anybody think about the parallels between the rise in the white domestic terrorists groups and violence in this country, the decrease in enrollment in college and university in this country for men, right, and how these two things are actually overlapping, and that the more educated men are, right that the less likely

they are to become violent, to be unstable. And the idea that the more rights right that we bestow to women to make the playing field equal, the better off in the long term our country is. And what this piece is saying is that very same thing, but looking at it on a global scale and not just looking at the United States. But you see, the thing is is that in this country we are more interested in putting band aids on bullet holes than we are on

anything else. You see, we only ever want to unpack the psychology when we're trying to invoke empathy in white

male rage. We never actually decide, let's unpack the psychology to better understand the policies that are driving this type of fucking violence and this type of increase in white supremacist violent groups, right, because they are oftentimes let us be clear is that these white supremaist groups are often steeped in misogyny as well, which is why in twenty sixteen you would found me with my mouth agape because

I'm like, how to fuck these white women? Go ahead and vote for these men that don't want you to have access to an abortion, that want to keep you locked in the household. But in your reptilian brain, you're thinking about what survival and survival only, which for white women is that the proximity to maleness right is where their power lies. So we enforce, we reinforce this continual sicular fuckery because we don't address anything actually at the route.

And what they will go on to say in the piece, which I thought is really interesting as well, is that when women are locked into these violent type of domestic situations right, it is also less likely that they are going to be educating thoughtful strategic leaders for the future.

So if you're thinking again about your country's ability to reimagine manifest destiny and a Taliban takeover, or if you're you know, a dictator or what have you, and you're looking to spread your wings, why wouldn't you want as many educa CAD people pushing your country forward as possible. But it's the same question that I ask about the United States, is the same question that I ask about the Taliban, which is, why wouldn't you invest in women.

Why wouldn't you make equal pay the law of the land.

Why wouldn't you make it so that in a country that was founded on Christian fundamentalism, that if you wanted people to actually have families, right to increase the population, then you would do so in a way that would allow there to be a mandate in private corporations to have childcare right on the grounds it would be the same for the federal government and workers that childcare is a part of your package, right, just like a four oh one K, just like health insurance, that if you

have a child that is not of school age, then we are providing childcare for you. Because you see, that's what a logical country would do that wants to increase its GDP, that wants to be in competition with the rest of the fucking world. You wouldn't then make it so half of the global population is unable to access any type of economic individualism or community building that could

make your country better. But it's the same fucking patriarchal logic that the Taliban uses that white Christian fundamentalists use in the United States. And so what pisces me off to no end is that over the last couple of weeks, right the last week or so, that we are now dealing with the you know, the blast radius of Texas's new abortion band that you're turning around and you're saying, huh. People are referring to this as like y'all kata and

naming it. You know, what they think is funny, pithy things that are mocking Islam. When I'm like, no, no, no, no, dear friend, this ain't have nothing to do with Islam. What is happening in fucking Texas. This is Christian fundamentalism and extremism run a fucking mock. But because it's white people with their white Jesus, you've decided to turn the other cheek or look the other fucking way. And the reality is is that they are abusing women in the

same fucking way. So do not make it seem as you have this one pristine, untouchable religion and then you have oh Islam over here. It is one in the fucking same, which is about men being in power and men ruling alone. And what we have seen is that that creates war, it creates famine, and it creates instability. So when will we learn? Is the question that I have and the question that I'm sure was posed by Hillary Clinton so many fucking moons ago. But you know,

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