Movements Matter For Women

I am reposting this comment that I received because I believe the message is a powerful one that some of these people who are so interested in legislating vaginal ultrasounds, and whether women are ladylike, and who somehow come to realize - after being told they need to - at the advanced age of 65 that women are also qualified for jobs in their administration, who say the person hiring has the right to decide its okay to pay women less than men for doing the same work, may want to think about - to those people I say what my mother often said to us kids growing up - A word to the wise is sufficient......

Movements Matter For Women

As a woman in America at the age of 58 whoever is inviting me to go backwards in America simply defies logic and just plain makes no sense at all. 

Brown v. Board of Education allowed me to attend kindergarten wherever my parents lived. Women having the vote allows me to have a voice in who is governing me and the country. Civil rights battles of the 60’s and 70’s allowed me to freely enjoy a rich and rewarding career and a few good jobs to help care for my family. I could go on but you get the idea.

To those voices that would take us back to the days when women stood quietly in the background, hands primly clasped in our laps, leaving the talking and deciding to men, I say this loudly and clearly - Stop talking.  Right this very minute.  About any foreign matter at all. Just stop it! For just a rare minute, return to the United States of America and the nearly 150 million women in this country and listen carefully. 

If anyone wants to take our young men and women into yet another war, the women of this country have something to say. If anyone wants to limit our rights, the women of this country have something to say. If for some reason anyone believes that paying women less than a man for the same work will sit well with the young women who follow us, forget it! The village elders clearly say Absolutely No Way. And, just in case anyone believes that jobs and the economy are going to trump the healthcare and social gains that women have made in the last 58 years, take heed - we have no intention of letting that happen.

Men in this country would do well to find a few women to speak for them right now or they are going to see a swell of resentment just before we enter the polling booths. Movements in America really do matter. Martin Luther King, a man, was fabulous at this kind of outrage. The "just can’t take any more of the nonsense" kind. 

Women in America matter. Let’s unpack just how much 150 million United States of America women matter.  

Movements matter for Women in America,

Sandra K. Davis