The Girls’s Motion wants a brand new slogan.
“Girls’s rights are human rights” is all proper so far as it goes. However in these altering occasions, does it go far sufficient?
With all deference to Karl Marx and his rabble-rousing buddy Friedrich Engels, a brand new slogan ought to go one thing like this: “Girls of the world, unite. You don’t have anything to lose however your positive factors.”
The quote is a knock-off from their Communist Manifesto, which referred to as for a worldwide communist revolution to free staff from the oppressive boot of capitalism.
The rallying cry got here from a pair of fellows who by no means had an actual job between them. Marx was a someday journalist, which, as all people is aware of, will not be an actual job, and Engels was the son of a wealthy mill proprietor.
The precise quote, which in 1848 shook the capitalist world, was, “Staff of the world, unite. You don’t have anything to lose however your chains.”
However why quibble?
The difficulty is the native response — or lack thereof — amongst girls’s rights activists over Gov. Maura Healey’s appointment of Giselle Byrd, a former man, to the state’s Fee on the Standing of Girls. Byrd is the chief director of a regional theater firm.
The 19-member fee, created in 1998, is, in accordance with its web site, “devoted to the advancing of ladies’s rights and alternatives, selling equality and offering a voice for girls and ladies throughout the state.”
It doesn’t say something about folks born as males, as Byrd was, transitioning into a lady.
The flap over the appointment, which was made in August, got here to the forefront in view of pending laws, filed by Sen. Patricia Jehlen of Somerville, that will create a separate fee on transgender folks.
Some imagine that such a fee would weaken the authority and the positive factors made by the prevailing girls’s fee.
Others like Republican state Rep. Alyson Sullivan-Almeida of Plymouth instructed the Herald that Healey’s appointment of Byrd “is unnecessary” within the first place.
She requested, “Out of almost three and a half million organic women and girls within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gov. Healey couldn’t determine a certified organic lady to nominate to the Massachusetts Fee on the Standing of Girls?”
After all she may, however she appointed Byrd anyway, stating that former Gov. Charlie Baker appointed a transgender lady to the fee in 2016.
Byrd, the second appointee, is, nonetheless, the primary African American transgender individual to be named to the fee.
Whereas widespread in some quarters, the Byrd appointment has but to be publicly endorsed by the Massachusetts Caucus of Girls Legislators, a bipartisan group made up of feminine members of the Home and Senate.
All of the speak of the appointment of Byrd to the ladies’s fee could also be educational anyway.
Face it. We stay in a one-party, matriarchal state to start with — the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now generally known as Massachusetts the Matriarchal State.
Girls run the state.
Issues are so one-sided that some solon will quickly be submitting laws calling for the creation of a Fee on the Standing of Males.
Take into account that 5 of the six prime statewide places of work are held by girls. They’re Gov. Healey, the state’s first overtly homosexual governor; Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, Lawyer Basic Andrea Campbell, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, and state Auditor Diana DiZoglio.
There may be additionally Senate President Karen Spilka and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
The one man hanging round is Secretary of State Billy Galvin, 74, and it’s only a matter of time earlier than a lady, transgender or not, takes him out.
Not that there’s something fallacious with it.
Yeah, proper.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
