The Girls’s Motion wants a brand new slogan.
“Women’s rights are human rights” is all proper so far as it goes. However in these altering instances, does it go far sufficient?
With all deference to Karl Marx and his rabble-rousing buddy Friedrich Engels, a brand new slogan ought to go one thing like this: “Women of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your gains.”
The quote is a knock-off from their Communist Manifesto, which known as for a worldwide communist revolution to free staff from the oppressive boot of capitalism.
The rallying cry got here from a pair of men who by no means had an actual job between them. Marx was a someday journalist, which, as everyone is aware of, shouldn’t be an actual job, and Engels was the son of a wealthy mill proprietor.
The precise quote, which in 1848 shook the capitalist world, was, “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.”
However why quibble?
The difficulty is the native response — or lack thereof — amongst girls’s rights activists over Gov. Maura Healey’s appointment of Giselle Byrd, a former man, to the state’s Fee on the Standing of Girls. Byrd is the chief director of a regional theater firm.
The 19-member fee, created in 1998, is, in line with its web site, “dedicated to the advancing of women’s rights and opportunities, promoting equality and providing a voice for women and girls across the state.”
It doesn’t say something about folks born as males, as Byrd was, transitioning into a lady.
The flap over the appointment, which was made in August, got here to the forefront in view of pending laws, filed by Sen. Patricia Jehlen of Somerville, that might create a separate fee on transgender folks.
Some consider that such a fee would weaken the authority and the positive aspects made by the prevailing girls’s fee.
Others like Republican state Rep. Alyson Sullivan-Almeida of Plymouth advised the Herald that Healey’s appointment of Byrd “makes no sense” within the first place.
She requested, “Out of nearly three and a half million biological girls and women in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gov. Healey couldn’t identify a qualified biological woman to appoint to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women?”
After all she might, however she appointed Byrd anyway, declaring that former Gov. Charlie Baker appointed a transgender girl to the fee in 2016.
Byrd, the second appointee, is, nevertheless, the primary African American transgender particular person to be named to the fee.
Whereas well-liked in some quarters, the Byrd appointment has but to be publicly endorsed by the Massachusetts Caucus of Girls Legislators, a bipartisan group made up of feminine members of the Home and Senate.
All of the speak of the appointment of Byrd to the ladies’s fee could also be educational anyway.
Face it. We stay in a one-party, matriarchal state to start with — the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now generally known as Massachusetts the Matriarchal State.
Girls run the state.
Issues are so one-sided that some solon will quickly be submitting laws calling for the creation of a Fee on the Standing of Males.
Contemplate that 5 of the six high statewide workplaces are held by girls. They’re Gov. Healey, the state’s first brazenly homosexual governor; Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, Lawyer Common Andrea Campbell, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, and state Auditor Diana DiZoglio.
There may be additionally Senate President Karen Spilka and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
The one man hanging round is Secretary of State Billy Galvin, 74, and it is just a matter of time earlier than a lady, transgender or not, takes him out.
Not that there’s something incorrect with it.
Yeah, proper.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas might be reached at: [email protected]
