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Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Light We Carry

 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times is Michelle Obama's newest book. Talk about rude comments.  I forgot to mention comments on Facebook posts. Michelle gets a lot, mostly positive.  Lately she posts about empowering girls. 

One guy (I assume it is a guy, could not tell by the name) posted several times asking why not empower boys, boys need to be empowered, and so on. Another said they should be empowered to make him a sammich. I believe he meant sandwich. People like those two, are the reason girls need encouragement. 

Girls are discriminated against in many countries. They are forced to marry older men at young ages. They are not allowed to get an education; if they do go to school, they do not last more than two years. Woman are forced to comply with men's mandated dress code. 

Even in the United States, some religious sects adhere to Old Testament dictates. Female heads need to be covered, they are to be subservient to husbands. It was many, many years after 1776 men declared all men are created equal, that women were given the right to vote.

Silly me; when I first learned about U.S. history in elementary school, I thought "men" meant "human beings." I did not feel inferior to males. That came later. 

When men (and some females) stand outside, and break into the Capitol Building wanting to find and kill an 80-year-old woman; when the Supreme Court decides states have a right to deny liberty to citizens based on gender, you know little girls need to be empowered.

I Am Woman, sang Helen Reddy, watch me grow, see me standing toe to toe, yet, a million did not march in 2022. And way too many women are gaga over Trump and agree with denying women equal rights. It appears the anti women are more powerful than empowered. 

Perhaps Michelle Obama will help more little girls to aspire to be president some day.  There needs to be more strong women in Congress, and less MTGs, Sarah Palins and others like them.



Tuesday, June 28, 2022

6th & 8th Amendment

 The United States Constitution 6th & 8th Amendments provide citizens with the right to speedy & public trials and the right to be free from cruel & unusual punishment.

Does Supreme Court Justice Thomas, et al, not know that? Do they need pocket Constitutions? Or are they simply corrupt?

As stated: A Woman Is A Person. Of course when those Amendments were written, women were not created equal ~ only men, specifically white men. Then that pesky 14th Amendment came along granting personhood to ALL citizens. 

Are women citizens? Sojourner Truth asked, Aint' I a woman? She is among the many who fought for women's suffrage. She did not live to see the passage of the 19th Amendment, recognizing women as citizens who had the right to vote. Obviously, SC Justice Thomas and the others do not consider women to be citizens. 

If they did, they would realize that no state has the right to consign women to cruel & unusual punishment. Nor do they have the right to deny women liberty. 

14th Amendment

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution states:

 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

A woman is a person


Liberty is being able to do as one pleases; freedom, if you will. 

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Gun Rights

A Facebook meme showed a woman holding as sign: "I dream of the day women will have the same rights as a gun." Nitpickers mock that, saying "guns do not have rights". Yet a Google search for "gun rights" will bring up results related to "gun rights bills," "gun rights groups or advocates," in addition to right to bear arms.

Guns do have rights to be manufactured and sold and used. 

Women, however do not have the most basic right to life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. It would make most women happy to bear a healthy, wanted baby that they can afford to have. Some women may be happy to carry a dead fetus to term; others less likely willing to do so. 

Yet Supreme Court just decided the Federal laws regarding women's right to choose is now up to states to decide. States like Texas will consign a woman to death, if her abnormal pregnancy is not discovered before 6 weeks ~ which, in most cases the fetal fetus pregnancy will not be. 

Guns have the right to be used to slaughter strangers. Women have no right to using a medical services to save her own life. Disturbing.

Sensible people will know what the sign holder meant: that guns are not as regulated as women's reproductive organs.