Feminists resisting pressure to work with the radical right on gender identity policy and law is apparently a difficult phenomenon to stamp out, but Dansky gives it another go!
As I replied to this exact comment on Jayne's post, this reply does not engage with the ideas and information in the article. Disagreement is fine, but engage with the material rather than just posting links.
pg 180... "Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul and Mary Church Terrell did not have the luxury of allies who supported them for reasons with which they agreed. They could have an amendment with the help of unsavory allies or none at all, sicne either way, the same congressmen would retain office. As historian Ira Katznelson has observed with regard to Franklin Roosevelt's World War II alliance with Joseph Stalin, untainted partners did not exist."
As I replied to this exact comment on Jayne's post, this reply does not engage with the ideas and information in the article. Disagreement is fine, but engage with the material rather than just posting links.
about the suffrage fight in early 20th century:
from book Fearless Women, by Elizabeth Cobbs
pg 180... "Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul and Mary Church Terrell did not have the luxury of allies who supported them for reasons with which they agreed. They could have an amendment with the help of unsavory allies or none at all, sicne either way, the same congressmen would retain office. As historian Ira Katznelson has observed with regard to Franklin Roosevelt's World War II alliance with Joseph Stalin, untainted partners did not exist."