{"id":269,"date":"2016-12-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/12\/31\/2017-beyond\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:30:00","slug":"2017-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2016\/12\/31\/2017-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 & beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

From “The Empire Strikes Back: We thought women would break new ground in 2016. We were wrong<\/a>,” by Michelle Goldberg<\/a> for Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However freakishly contingent his triumph, it forecloses the future feminists imagined at least for a long while. We\u2019re going be blown backward so far that this irredeemably shitty year may someday look like a lost feminist golden age. The very idea that women are equal citizens, that barriers to their full human flourishing should be identified and removed, is now up for grabs. A pastor warming up the crowd at a post-election Trump rally in Louisiana promised<\/a> that with Trump in office, the White House would be a place \u201cwhere men know who men are, women know who women are.\u201d The massive power of the American state is about to be marshaled to put women in their place.<\/i>
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\nWe might well lose Roe v. Wade in the next four years. Trump has said the issue would then go back to the states, but there\u2019s no reason to think that Republicans would settle for anything less than a national ban. There is a particular insult at the thought of a sybarite like Trump, who still won\u2019t say<\/a> whether he\u2019s ever paid for an abortion himself, imposing a regime of forced birth on American women. When and if Trump strips us of bodily autonomy, there won\u2019t be any illusions that he\u2019s doing it to protect life or the family or sexual morality. It will be because he has power, and women\u2019s hopes and plans for their own lives don\u2019t matter to him at all.<\/i>
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\nControlling the course of our own lives is going to get harder in many different ways. We can say goodbye<\/a> to Department of Education pressure on colleges to address campus rape. We can expect the end of federal aid for Planned Parenthood and of federal government action to promote equal pay and fight sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. The Women\u2019s Bureau<\/a>, the one department in the federal government tasked with responding to the needs of women in the workforce, will now fall under the aegis of former Carl\u2019s Jr. honcho Andrew Puzder, whose company is known for commercials featuring near-naked women in orgasmic communion with sandwiches. \u201cI like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s very American.\u201d Like top Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Puzder has also been accused<\/a> of assaulting his now-ex wife.<\/i><\/p>\n

Happy 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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