I Have A Confession to Make

I have a confession to make. I AM A NASTY WOMAN. There. I said it. Seems like I have been all of my adult life. Here is proof dating back four years.

I wrote this post in 2012 and I am editing it in 2016 but only very slightly, unbelievably the Republican party is backing a misogynist. Today, you might have heard, Hillary R. Clinton is running for office. Sadly, many women still haven't gotten the message that this would be a good thing for women, families and children everywhere. As for the comments about various religions what require head garb I could really care less, I do strongly care about is that all women have rights that are human rights and are educated everywhere and not ever subjugated anywhere. In peace and in love vote. HRC is a excellent choice.

Woman as warrior: Joan of Arc

Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish they could turn the clock back. One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and please, I beg you, take it personally."                             Nora Ephron

When the Ayatollah Khomany came into power in the late nineteen seventies he convinced the women of his country to embrace the veil, renounce many of their rights, be subservient to men and even allow nine year old little girls to be forced into marriage. He did this trick by claiming that it would be a rebellion from the Shah's regime. The women of Iran, in great numbers bought that argument [and are still buying it]. Unbelievably they agreed to turn back the clock. How tragic that they didn't remember or honor that their own mothers and grandmothers fought [and some died] to finally, defiantly, throw off the veil in the 1920's.

Sadly, this is relevant today. No matter how much we joke about what the Republican candidate is saying about women: calling them farm animals, sexually assaulting them and worse exhibiting contempt and disdain really this is no joke at all. We are trying to raise children here that have respect for all humans and by god this includes women. Guess he didn't get that memo.

Do we really have to go back to the time when women couldn't make private decisions with their doctors? [Reverse the roles and read that sentence with the word, 'men', see if it makes sense.] In essence, are the women who are voting Republican aware that they are in fact signing up to putting on the veil as well as the apron and be controlled by an out of control narcissist? Please take this personally.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.       Margaret Sanger

I grew up in an era when contraception was difficult to obtain and it was quite a chore to get birth control pills. The Republicans claim that they are all for conception. If so why are they withholding the rights of women who want contraception covered on their insurance, why on earth do they want to shut down Planned Parenthood whose agency does 97% of it's work providing cancer screening and providing contraception affordably? Think! At the same time Viagra is easily obtained by any man who requests it and it is paid for by the insurance companies. Please take this personally.

Some of the members of the Republican party are in a state of de-volution

Two easy solutions to this problem. Stand up and be counted. Vote for Hillary, she respects women and her policies and goals are respectful of women.

Let's go forward--- let's come together in a spirit of compassion and reason. Lack of empathy for women isn't good for our country. Lack of empathy at best is a sign of narcissism at worst sociopathy. As a great sage once said, "compassion for our fellow man [woman] isn't a sign of weakness but instead is the mark of civilization."

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