The minister without a portfolio dates back at least half a century.

Let’s not give up our privileges in a misunderstood fight for emancipation

– encourages her colleagues Katalin Novák, Minister without Family Portfolio, in her video that has become very popular in a short time. The phrase is a bit vague, because it is not necessarily possible to find out from the context what Katalin Novák means by privilege. Less pay? The invisible work? Birth? Taking care of everyone at all times?

Unfortunately, the minister did not score the video, so we will do it instead. “Let’s not give up privileges” was the motto of the Phyllis Schlafly movement in the United States in the 1970s, which did everything possible to prevent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a constitutional amendment that guarantees equality rights for men and women. STOP ERA flourished on their posters, where STOP was an abbreviation for Stop Taking Our Privileges. That means not taking away our privileges.

Phyllis Schlafly was convinced that women had a privileged position in society, often citing the fact that they were not classified as soldiers, but she also welcomed the fact that welfare programs were based on the premise that women were separated from their husbands. they depended on and scared their followers by telling them that if a constitutional amendment was adopted guaranteeing equal rights, women would lose support for their wife and children in the event of divorce. Not to mention, ERA would remove both male and female hands in bathrooms!

By the way, Phyllis Schlafly, although she kept housewives at home, hardly had her ambitions. The six-child former beauty queen was an expert on the US-Soviet arms race, running multiple times for a congressional term, until she eventually became the leader and face of a national movement.

A series of confrontations between Schlafly and American feminists, the Lady america otherwise it is displayed on HBO GO.

We even believed that the phrase “misunderstood emancipation struggle” had been superseded by history for at least half a century.



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Rather, be happy to have a child and to take care of others. Although, of course, they can also work.