While Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) slams Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday, Mother Jones is praising her for “going to jail so we don’t have to” and we have this from the Women Unshackled conference yesterday:

“We need to be smarter”? Apparently, Harris did not heed her own advice and anticipate the Tweet storm that would ensue after unleashing #WomenUnshackled:

So, feminists want "equality" but they don't want women serving equal time for the same crimes men commit? Sounds legit. #WomenUnshackled

— Not Elizabeth (@BasedElizabeth) July 18, 2017

#WomenUnshackled 😯

Let's talk about the REAL shackles of #Islam, shall we?😒#Islamophobia 😦

NOPE😡#IslamoREALISM 😠#IslamIsTheProblem ✊ pic.twitter.com/sxgFXH8BVa

— 🐸 RedPills4All 🇺🇸 (@RedPills4All171) July 18, 2017

So if im a man and I identify as a woman do I get a free pass also? #WomenUnshackled

— Truck Nation (@trucknation13) July 19, 2017

Phrases you won't hear at the #WomenUnshackled conference:

"Don't commit crimes."
"Make better life choices."
"Take responsibility."

— Victorious Amputee (@Bilitamp) July 18, 2017

The argument behind #WomenUnshackled is to “fix” the broken prison system for women. Harris argues that incarcerated women are deprived of basic hygiene, the lack of reproductive health support and that many women who are incarcerated have suffered some type of abuse in the course of their childhood. The simple argument remaining that Harris and her buddies like Elizabeth Warren fail to acknowledge is that there are women who are still like this in the prison system hoping to benefit from this initiative:

Kamala Harris, the "let my people go" of child murderers! #WomenUnshackled after microwaving baby.. #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder pic.twitter.com/kJpY1EZLXc

— moxxorhelps (@moxxorhelps) July 19, 2017

Women are incarcerated while pregnant, you say? Some women who are incarcerated are mothers? We must rethink criminal justice policy by a focus on “prevention first”?

I've escaped going to prison for over 4 decades. I mean, I haven't committed any crimes, but still. #WheresMyEffingHashtag #WomenUnshackled

— Susan Griffin (@susang508) July 19, 2017

There are many preventative measures that can be taken before women enter the prison system and not after the fact. For example, parenting classes that teach parents of at-risk children to break destructive patterns and teach them how to deal with setting appropriate boundaries and consequences. Right. We have to get some of these parents to actually attend. How about fixing a broken education system and early-intervention for at-risk families? Bingo. We have to get these families to actually participate in these programs. Some women who enter the prison system are pregnant and have other children? That’s funny, I was pregnant once-upon-a-time, too and I managed to stay out of prison. In fact, I know lots of women like me. You know why I stayed out of a cell? I got the riot act read to me at an early age and was taught to obey rules or else. I saw people I love die of drug overdoses and how a life of being on the street and drugs impacted their families. I was taught that there were consequences to my actions-as in, you don’t use protection, you might end up pregnant and if you do, you had better not go and do something that is against the law and get yourself thrown in the “pen” where you can complain about how unfair the system has been to you. Forgive me for not being sympathetic to the plight of prison women not having the right type of tampons.

“You have the power and we the people have the power!”-Kamala Harris, Women’s March 2017

See, ladies? You DO have the power to make better choices! Ms. Harris even said so. As for us here at Victory Girls, we are free of shackles and plan to remain that way in this beautiful country that we love. Yes, Kamala Harris, you are absolutely right. The collective “we”, as in women, need to be smarter.