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By John Wojcik
On the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C., there is a list of a dozen easily recognized features of a society headed toward fascism. High on that list is the oppression and denigration of women—in short, sexism. Yesterday, New York’s Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the leading socialist in the U.S. Congress, rose to the floor and changed forever how sexism will be understood by the nation’s political leaders.
She demanded that women be given respect as individuals, declaring that it is not enough that they get respect simply because they are daughters, wives, or mothers. She demanded this respect for women as individuals regardless of their class or economic status. That goes for working-class women on the job and at home, and for those in high office, such as Hillary Clinton, who has been called a bitch countless times by men, including those who consider themselves “progressive.”
Women and men in the U.S. and as far away as India yesterday saw and heard an historic condemnation of sexism and how it has cheapened and weakened our world. And Ocasio-Cortez did not hold back one tiny bit.
“Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, a ‘fucking bitch,’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “These are the words Rep. Yoho levied against a congresswoman.”
Earlier this week, Republican Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida, spewed his vulgarities at Ocasio-Cortez as she was walking up the steps of the Capitol. Yesterday, he issued a non-apology, apologizing actually for Ocasio-Cortez for “misunderstanding” remarks he said he never made. “I cannot apologize for my passion or for loving my God, my family, and my country,” he said in his cowardly remarks, designed to...
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