An unflinching look at how women are treated in the United States today. Examining both real-life stories and precedent-setting legal cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers how outdated and discriminatory attitudes inform and influence seemingly disparate issues, from workplace harassment to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault to the foster care system, and the healthcare conglomerate to the judicial system.
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Excellent and sickening. Goof refresher course for those who have forgotten or never knew the history of women in this country. And, an excellent look at how politicians, courts, both political parties and all genders have and continue to perpetrate an incredible war on women - some by their actions and others by their indifference.
Also an eye opening view of young women today who have no clue about their history, think the ERA is a laundry detergent, and who have been taught to think they have equality when they do not and think there are laws to protect them when there are not. It is a rude awakening for most. And, these women also internalize their failure to find the non existing equality and laws as a personal failure rather than a systemic failure.
Another strong point in the film is how other women, with internalized misogyny and sexism, are being used as the bearer of bad news when companies or systems engage in discriminatory practices. For a patriarchal system to work well, it requires violence, particularly sexual violence, and women to police other women.