Can Kamala protect women?

I think maybe I’m just sensitive because the republicans use this sort of thing. Like Trump’s bizarre messaging about her race and the way that he carefully positions groups of African Americans so that they are in the main camera shots during rallies.

You see this kind of messaging a lot on women’s rights from republicans.

Those are all valid things to hold her to account for in office but in this election with Trump and Vance on the republican ticket now is not the time.

Abortion isn’t just about your right to get an abortion it’s also about women being denied life-saving care because they happen to be pregnant and being treated as vessels rather than people.

Off topic, but does anyone else find the obsession with "political dynasties" odd - especially when its phrased in the way that certain families "represent" certain values/political ideas. Its presented as an accepted fact in that twitter thread that that would be the case. And its not just the Kennedys that happens with, although they are the most obvious example. Why not just have a Royal family if you are going to do that? That's weird too, but its honest.

In fairness, Kamala Harris isn't making a big thing about her being "the first female president" if she is elected. It was a huge feature of Hillary Clinton's campaign and I think that was seen as a mistake. Kamala Harris obviously IS a woman, and has "used" it in the sense of talking about being a "momala" to her step children etc. But all American politicians use their families. She isn't really going for the "I'm good for women because Im a woman" angle.

@Takoneko but what about women’s rights to safe single sex spaces, rights of daughters to participate and excel safely in single sex sports, inability to name what a woman is when you are a women. Diluting and misleading data and statistics on women by including men, misleading healthcare advice that airbrushed out that it applies to women, impacts on babies being breastfed secretions by men, healthy children being sent on a medicalised pathway for life ending up with surgical scars and infertility. Women’s rights are more than just abortion. Children’s rights also matter.

By keeping Trump and Vance out of the White House.
By keeping American democracy intact so that people can continue to have debates freely and vote in future.
By appointing justices to the Supreme Court who don’t think that Trump should be able to us the state to assassinate political rivals and be immune.
By protecting women’s bodily autonomy and access to reproductive healthcare.

This isn’t difficult stuff.

OP wrt this of yours:

We are allowed to not blindly cheerlead to the point of ignoring creeping issues that can undermine the democracy we prize. It's called anticipating future issues.

Might be interested to read tbis on RFK jr and concerns about issues undermining democracy:

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In a way what good is the right to abortion when women have no other rights- the democrats only seem to care about the right to abortion but not the right to stop your child mutiliating themselves, no right to single sex care, to safe spaces, to single sex prisons, to women’s sports , scholarships etc. I have a deep mistrust of Kamala when it comes to women’s rights. Wasn’t she recently fawning and squealing over men in dresses at the White House?

Are you in the states? I’m not but do teach American politics, so have a reasonable grasp of the political system there.

These sorts of debates about policy are the kind to have when the parties are selecting their candidates but the conventions have now happened, each party’s nominee is now set and it is a straightforward choice between Trump and Harris.

In that context, I just don’t see how you can be surprised that women are supporting her. Trump is an existential threat to American democracy and women’s rights. Of course women and anyone who cares about women will support Harris.

It isn’t wittering on

both candidates could be shit on womens rights but have other reasons to vote for them (no idea what trumps would be mind) so its a perfectly valid question to ask

I’m sorry, but questioning whether she’s really the candidate for women when this guy is on the other ticket is wittering on.

The guy who thinks that raped women and girls should have to carry pregnancies to term.

I don’t believe that anyone who really cares about women would have any doubt about who is better for women and children in this election.

I don't get the impression she's even thought about it. I'm glad I don't live in America. Even so, I'd be voting for her if I did because Donald Trump is a vile man baby who has no respect for women at all. I'm also deeply concerned at how anti democratic he is. The ongoing battle for women's and children's rights with regard to trans issues can be fought with the Democrats if they stay in power. I do think trans issues are going to stop people voting for Kamala but I don't think there's much awareness of those issues among the general population so not enough to influence the outcome of the election. I was very disappointed by Michelle Obama's support for gender ideology in her speech. It makes me shudder how middle aged cross-dressing men's need to be 'validated,' as women has led to an entire industry focusing on the mutilation of unhappy children in the space of two decades.

Clinton is not the democratic candidate.

This is utter horseshit.

A jury decided that Trump was civilly liable for raping a woman. He wants women criminalised for abortions, whilst also removing access to contraceptives. He thinks that sexual assault is fodder for fun locker-room banter.

Anyone who undermines the campaign of the only person who can keep him out of office hates women and is happy for them to live in a Handmaids Tale dystopia. Women are dying because they can’t access reproductive healthcare as a result of the last Trump presidency, before the Supreme Court had ruled he has immunity.

Anyone wittering on about “whether she knows what a woman is”, clearly isn’t living in a deep red state where the impact of Trump’s presidency on women’s rights is very real and not a philosophical exercise.

Given her support for rewriting title IX I doubt it,

No she can’t. She doesn’t have a Definition for women so how she can help US women I’ve no idea.
Nevertheless, it’s her or Trump. For me it’s a case of either is shit, but she at least isn’t (as far as we know) a sex offender, tax fraudster or other type of felon.
Also I am not in the US or American so I am almost beyond giving a shit about them - such is the level of craziness there.

In her speech she referenced moving on from the divisions of the past.
In his speech Obama started saying 'we should listen to each other and we might learn something' but then in an incredibly patronising way said we give leeway to older people in our families who express views that have not kept pace with progress and should give that same leeway to others that don't agree with us.
I am listening out for adults and hugely impressed by what the Democrats are doing in terms of this campaign, but think they don't yet see the problems let alone acknowledge them.