I read the articles about the young mom on the cover of Time breastfeeding her toddler. I am aware of the controversy surrounding health care and some organizations objecting to having to provide birth control. I remember what journalists said about Hilary and Sarah during the last election. To me its all the same, they are attacks on women's power and freedom. In the last election 70 million women voted in the US and only 60 million men. We could control the outcome of future elections...if we decided to. Breastfeeding is natural and no one complains when an aboriginal woman nurses a toddler in a Nat Geo program. The US has convinced us all that women's bodies are sex objects and this is why many were startled by the image on the cover of Time. Had she been an older overweight woman, and more matronly looking, would we have been as outraged? I doubt it. I find it outrageous that someone who has never been on birth control and will probably never need it, men, are the ones telling women what to do and how to do it. They are convinced that college women only want birth control to have lots of premarital sex without the consequences of pregnancy and disease. The amount of sex, or lack of sex, or other reasons for wanting birth control is none of their business. Supposedly we have a separation of church and state, this should also apply to health care. They said Hilary was old and not pretty enough whereas Sarah was too pretty and not smart enough. We can't win for losing can we? McCain didn't receive comments about being too chunky to be president. Have you seen how gray Obama has gotten lately? No one focuses on that and only that.
I fix my own plumbing. I mow my own lawn. I do my own taxes. I carry 50 lb bags of rice and dog food to the car. I carry children to bed weighing 85 lbs. I painted my house, twice. I cook dinner everyday for 6+ people. I do 2 loads of laundry almost everyday. I work late after the kids have gone to bed and I get up before everyone else. I make my own jewelry. I wash my own car. I know what the problem is, men are afraid of women. (There are always exceptions to the rule, but I have met few.) They know we do not really need them as much as they would like us to. They should be afraid. Once I get all the women to see how powerful and important they all are... we will rule the world.
