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randomberlinchick:

Congratulations Félicitations to Christiane Taubira, France’s new Minister of Justice:

In an unprecedented move in French politics, three black politicians, two of them women and all from France’s overseas departments in the Caribbean, joined President Francois Hollande’s cabinet as its held its first meeting Thursday.

In the most senior appointment, Christiane Taubira, from French Guiana, has been named Minister of Justice in the new Socialist government, becoming the first black woman to made a full minister.

Rama Yade, originally from Senegal, had risen to the level of junior minister in the previous Nicolas Sarkozy administration.

Taubira, 60, considered to be on the left of the Socialist Party, is the author of the 2001 “Taubira Law” which officially recognises the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.

More here.

I’d like to hear more about that space to the left of socialism that Ms. Taubira occupies ;-)

ohhhhhh this cool but I wonder why France decided to choose not only FEMALE politicians but BLACK ones, given their sexist and racist stance on women and Muslim and Roma women in general (and lol pretty much any woman who isn’t white lololol)

do these women have similar ideologies with the other peeps in the government or…? like… ohhhh

Errrrrrr actually the anti-Roma politics was led by the last government, Nicolas Sarkozy’s. 

Christiane Taubira is part of the government of the new French president, Francois Hollande, who promised diversity and gender equality in his government. 

Also I know this is extremely controversial on Tumblr, but the anti-veil and anti-burka laws passed in France these past years were supported and backed by some of the most prominent women from Muslim background in France, such as Fadela Amara, founder of the feminist movement, Ni putes, ni soumises (Neither Whores Nor Submissive).

Yup it’s true, but I am going to point out that it’s not uncommon for a majority to use people from a minority (ugh I hate that term ‘minority’) to defend/approve of bigoted policies that hurts said minority group. 

liberalsarecool:

Virtually everything we have heard in the week since the War on the War on Women was waged has been another mindnumbing meditation on “women” and “choice.” Whether it’s Ann Romney’s “choice” to stay home and care for her five sons, or working women and their “choice” to be in the workplace, or the “choice” to marry a rich guy, or the choice not to marry at all. Why is it that women are the sum of their “choices” and men get to just live their lives?

A few precatory observations on this language of choice: For one thing, it has become so bound up with the fight over reproductive rights in this country that it never really means just “choice” anymore. You can almost hear the silent “unfortunate” that precedes it every time it’s mentioned in political discourse. For another, not all women have all the choices they are alleged to be pondering. Most of us simply don’t have the luxury of a “choice” to stay home, or a choice to work part-time. Most women, like most men, do what they have to do. “Choice” is usually a misnomer, especially during a recession, for women as much as it is for men.

But talking about women in the language of choice is also a political trap. Because it suggests that while men are free to optimize their lifestyle decisions, women are always forced to “choose.” Men may design their lives. Women’s lives are a sequence of impossible trade-offs, made even more complex when they must mesh with the custom designs of the men with whom they marry and co-parent.

Dahlia Lithwick & Jan Rodak,  “The Faux Mommy Wars” [Slate]