In the Year that King Uzziah died…
RBG…
What a wonder of a life, 87 years young and full of fight and grit and determination. She remains a matriarch of our nation. Alive and attentive to the realities of the world and the ineptitudes that she inherited. Jewish women must have had such a huge adoration for her. Although, I had no conversation with any to hear their affiliation with her and her views.
I am sad that we have gotten so far away from the principles that people stand for and more about what they are and what group they might represent. My grandmother Ruth was and icon in our family, but her perspectives were shaped by the world she grew up in. Older women today seem determined to look at younger women as mindless numbers on their rolls of perspective. Young women aren’t allowed to have conservative views and think about things from the perspective of the world that they live in.
As I imagine the issues of womanhood in 1920 I admire the stamina of the women who carved suffrage out of a stone hearted male dominated culture. Still they were aware of the reasoning that caused a duplicitous relationship with suffrage versus family rights. That reality has become all too blurred in the chipping away of unity in the isolation of woman’s rights as a cause.
My father used to place under a microscope the hypocrisy of his dearest married Aunt Glo who would give assent to her husbands leadership in the home while undermining his authority by allowing the children a television. They kept the marriage together until his untimely death inspite of this horrible insubordination that my father hammered into our minds as anti family feminism. (I am not saying it was that, simply that this was how it was advertised to our minds) Women weren't allowed to make the rules in those days and that wasn't right either, now was it?
We live in a new world where men don’t have the guts to lay down the law and both partners are free to express their unity and hypocrisy in their own way. No rules doesn’t mean no hypocrisy. It means no leadership and no direction most times. Lets really think about it and lets consider whether or not the old feministic agenda needs to be stroked to allow for unity in the “American Family”. Is it our turn to put the tv in the attic, when mommy comes home to appease the wrath of the Queen? Why?
We have our own minds and we can think about a world that is changing and perhaps has need of a level headed middle of the road perspective instead of a tearing down the shackles of yesterday song.” Think about it!
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