The Hard Life of Women

As we all watch the "rise" of women throughout the world -- we need to reflect: "why has it taken so long?" Then we need to take "action!"

Who has held the "chains of repression" so tightly -- via societal norms, religion, local mores, and family prejudices to keep women "in check" for so long? Who is to blame? All of us -- men and women -- are to blame. We have all held women back.

The "weaker sex," too emotional, too unschooled, "the Bible says...", "according to 'sharia law,' my Mom told me, my Aunts say "you just don't do things like that" and on and on. We have created the great inequality when really there is only differences, wonderful differences, that make the whole system work.

Why don't we have women Presidents in our history: in government, in business, in societies, in associations, in sports, in everything? Why are women placed as second class regardless of the situation.

Prejudice, ignorance, chauvinism, religious bigotry, Biblical and Koran misinterpretation (along with those of others sects),  fake standards of comparison, ridiculous old tales that presume without proof, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.

And continue to Resist, the devil that is Donald!

The Passing of MICHAELA -- the Rise of SYDNEY

Life brings changing circumstances and intriguing questions. What happened to Michaela ? Tall, slim, smiling: the best new waitress at Perkins and my pony-tailed server on a number of my trips through the region. Has she indeed just changed names and morphed into Sydney: tall, slim, ditto ditto ditto -- even down to the pony-tail?

What happens to those memories that have become legends or even rich fantasies in our brains? Are they still alive in some other continuum?  Are they still waiting for our arrival? Are they a part of our future? Our "could-be" future? Our heaven?

I hope so! 

RESIST Trump, as always.

Dumbstruck

Some of the things I  see happening around me are just astounding. Greed and self-soaping dominate in every level of news, politics, personal relationships, and even family life. Communication has been stymied or controlled for selfish personal reasons by supposedly "good Christian people" on a national and a personal level.

Grow up America! Let your "children" go! Let people make their own decisions. Don't demand, for example, that people should be allowed to have any gun they choose; because some moronic politician [who has no values or moral code] tells you he is against abortion. Don't stop or try to control the way your kids think, just because they don't espouse what you believe. Let Christian be a Christian, not a closed-off clone of you!


And everyone...continue to resist.