Opinion | Jenni Miller: 'It might be time for all of us on lockdown to learn a little history, rather than be doomed to continue to repeat it.' - NBCNewsThink
But ultimately, because her biggest success in life was destroying a constitutional amendment the effects of which have since been incrementally but broadly accomplished by the movement she hated, she's reduced in the popular imagination to that caricature I remember.
And although"Mrs. America" is ardently feminist, it doesn't shy away from showing the movement's problems — which continue today."Feminine Mystique" writer Betty Friedan, for instance, is shown opposing the inclusion of LGBTQ rights in the feminist agenda — echoing the current demand by a tiny number of cisgender women self-identifying as feminists that transgender women be excluded from feminist spaces.In another episode, Steinem and Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y.
So if you as a viewer think that the ins and outs of amassing delegates and political maneuvering can't be interesting,"Mrs. America" has news for you — and not just because the infighting and personal struggles of the characters are just as relevant and familiar. It might be time for all of us on lockdown to learn a little history, rather than be doomed to continue to repeat it.
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