Kamala Harris Had a Message for 'Out of Touch' Politicians | Cosmo Clips - video Dailymotion

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00:00These out-of-touch politicians telling women what to do with their own bodies.

00:08During the Kavanaugh hearing, here we have then a nominee to the United States Supreme Court.

00:15And so I asked him, I'm on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I asked him,

00:19can you think of any law that tells a man what to do with his own body?

00:24Uh, uh, uh, uh, no.

00:29So we're literally talking about, as with so many cases that,

00:33that in essence from my perspective are also about civil rights and equality,

00:38we're literally talking about a situation where the law applies differently based on gender.

00:45One of the issues that I have dealt with in the last few years that is associated

00:49but has been highlighted because of technology is what the press calls revenge porn.

00:55But I've said stop using that term because the term revenge porn,

01:00one, revenge, suggests that she's done something wrong that then deserves this kind of response,

01:06which of course is ridiculous.

01:08What she did is she was in a consensual relationship,

01:11taking photographs, sharing them in a consensual relationship,

01:15and then she breaks up with a dude and he's upset about it

01:22and then tries to figure out how to embarrass her and demean her and belittle her

01:26and then publishes these photographs.

01:29So she has done nothing that deserves this conduct.

01:33Porn, well one, it's a loaded term meaning it is loaded with judgment.

01:39But two, and most importantly,

01:42she did not take that photograph with any intention that it would be published for the public.

01:47So it is not revenge or porn.

01:50And for that reason I've said that the term should be cyber exploitation,

01:56which is the use of cyber technology in a way that has been designed and intended to exploit predominantly women.

02:05Public policy should be connected with how people are actually living.

02:09On the issue of equal pay, you know what that means?

02:13It means the woman is working in that cubicle, knows that the guy next to her is making more than she is,

02:19and the only way to actually fix the problem is she's got to prove it.

02:25She's a working woman.

02:28She may be, you know, raising a family by herself or, you know, with her spouse,

02:35but got to work and pick up the kids and deal,

02:38and she's supposed to prove this thing like an investigator and a lawyer?

02:42It's just wrong on something that's so fundamental, which is equal pay for equal work.

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