I was prompted today after reading some of my comments from yesterdays post, to bring up the issue of women's equality. It's not just an issue of women's rights, but of human rights. What gives man the right in all societies to put stigmas onto certain factors. It has been happening since the dawn of time...why?
Why is the woman wearing a veil to cover her beauty, why does she walk behind, why is her pay scale less, why must she wear a bonnet, why can't she speak in your presence, why did we have to wear skirts to school, which had to be below the knee or cover the ankle or corsets or dresses PERIOD...how crazy was that, why a woman in the frontier days had to wear a dress at all, while trying to eek out a living in the wild frontiers...PALEASE!!! I'm afraid I would have been the rebel Annie Oakley, wearing the jeans and six-shooter of a man in that wild and woolly era, "you want me to wear what, Pilgrim"...I froze my butt off walking to school back in the 50-60's in those stupid skirts...who made those rules anyway...hmmm...I'm not your damned play thing, I am a Goddess unto MYSELF...so back off Jack...
I thank the Universe for WOMEN'S LIBERATION!!! I am so glad I got to live this blessed event in my lifetime. I am prompted to the movie 'The DaVinci Code', the issue of Mary Magdalene being a prostitute, this movie was profound to me, bringing up major issues in religion, but we won't get into that HUGE issue, but I have a problem with the whole issue of prostitution and why the guilt is laid totally in the laps of the woman. If there wasn't such a need by, you know who, it probably wouldn't exist, again, who made these rules...and who cares, all of the rules were made by religion, not the laws of natural, free selection or Heaven forbid, here comes that word again...EQUALITY.
This thing called WOMAN, is a strong presence in the structure of life...she raises the children almost completely by herself, she cooks and feeds and nurtures and loves to the depths of her very being and faith, yet is forced to live with stigma after stigma, rule after rule, execution and retribution, all through history, yet she is strong and assured...a rock in her very existence and feared by many a noble man, sending shivers up his timbers...ha!
I know this will not change in my lifetime, but I have hopes that somewhere in the future, we will live in a world where all men AND women are equal, not judged by the church or the corporations or the governments. This is a stretch I know, but I can dream, right and I know my dreams are shared by many...we all breath the same air (cough, cough) we all have five fingers and we all procreate...so why can't we all just get along...equally...
