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John Shirley May 28, 2023

We forget how relatively recently women had to fight for the simplest most basic rights.

"On this day in 1923, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty pronounced it legal for women to wear trousers anywhere."

Now when will it be pronounced legal for women to take responsibility for their own bodies?

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Prickly Pam (D-PA)May 29, 2023

@JohnShirley2023

And even when I was in public high school in the late 1960s we had to wear dresses. Finally in my senior year we were allowed to wear pants.

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Nina🐀🌻WTAF America?

@PricklyPam @JohnShirley2023 Yep. In elementary school in a West LA suburb we had to wear skirts or dresses until they changed the rules in the late 60s. In fourth grade we could FINALLY wear jeans and stop skinning our knees so badly when we fell on the playground. That seems like a little thing but it wasn't because some of the girls started playing kickball and were just as good as the boys.