Garance Franke-Ruta notes the existence of the glass ceiling within the Chinese Communist Party.
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Problems Everywhere
13 Sep 2007 02:37 pm
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Should we bemoan the relative lack of women in the Burmese military junta or Mugabe's regime as well?
This post reminds me of the old headline quip:
"World to end: Women and minorities expected to be hardest-hit"
As ringleader, do you ever hang out with G F-R? That must be fun.
How far that great land has fallen from "Women hold up half the sky". Perhaps it's time for U.S. liberals to go to China and help them return to their progressive ideals.
Remember, if you don't vote for Hillary in the primary, you are perpetuating the glass ceiling.
Wouldn't it have been much better to title this post:
I Got 2008 Problems But a Bitch Ain't One
I submit that it would have been.
But cheer up! Congress has a record number of female members. Notice the improvement?
Yeah Garance, "thing are tough all over". I'm sure the poor souls suspended from the ceiling and beaten are "somewhat amused" too.
The Amnesty International 2005 report states that "Serious violations against women and girls continued to be reported as a result of the enforcement of the family planning policy, including forced abortions and sterilizations." The report gives the specific example of one woman's experiences.
"Mao Hengfeng was sent to a labour camp for 18 months' 'Re-education through Labour' in April for persistently petitioning the authorities over a forced abortion 15 years earlier when she became pregnant in violation of China's family planning policy. She was reportedly tied up, suspended from the ceiling and severely beaten in the labour camp. She had been detained several times in the past in psychiatric units where she had been forced to undergo shock therapy."
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05052706.html
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Heads in the Sand
forget that - Oden is out for the season!!!
Posted by sean | September 13, 2007 2:42 PM