Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
Hey all you ball breaking, castrating, impolite, uncivil, vitriol dripping, hairylegged, humourless, radical feminists out there. Have you ever wondered where the awards for all the hard work nastiness you put out there are?
Well look no further! The CFB is the answer to your question.
“Nominations graciously accepted from January 25 to February 8”
I went into 2007 with a heavy heart. The whole world seemed depressed and without hope.
Indeed 2007 did turn out to be both personally challenging and to continue horrors throughout the world.
We moved from Lindsay to Hamilton, there were trials and tribulations along the way but ultimately it has all worked out. I’ve grown closer to old friends and made new ones. Unlike many mothers around the world I’ve marked another year with my children unscathed by war.
Politically it saddens me that feminism is seen by some to still be fringe and that if we don’t make sandwiches and make everyone feel good first we are crazy radicals scary and best ignored. *sigh*
I wish everyone all the best in the New Year. May you find happiness in unexpected places and always have enough to keep body and soul together.
I leave you with one of my favourite Dan Fogelberg songs;
Every year it breaks my heart to watch as 14 roses pile up in remembrance of the horror of December 6, 1989.
In the face of such an atrocity one can only hope that lessons will be learned. Unfortunately, it seems that few have paid attention.
Women are still being killed simply for being women, for asserting their rights, or simply for being there. Women’s shelters are still full and daily women face abuses and the possibility of death.
It is often difficult, especially in light of such tragedies, to make those privileged enough not to have to deal with the daily issues see how ‘small’ things contribute to the larger picture.
When you allow words as weapons (calling women cunts, throw like a girl, etc), when you excuse sexist behaviour, when you smear an MP because she calls someone on an act that would not be allowed in any other workplace, when commercials that talk about how “boys are just built different” no icky girls allowed, when these things passed unremarked the message that girls are somehow ‘less than’ is ingrained.
The women cut down in the act of terror committed that day deserve better.
Lest we forget
If you are, or were, a Dr. Suess fan you may remember this book. Written about the glorious things you could do on the First of Octember such as stay up all night to drink “66 six packs of Doodle Delight.”
October is Women’s History month. A current look at the SWC site shows this statement from our Prime Minister;
“forthcoming”
Mid way through October Canada’s New Government™ has yet to issue a statement. Perhaps the script from Gwen was delayed….indefinitely?
One imagines that Harper et al would far rather Women’s History month, and indeed all matters pertaining to women’s equality, be relegated to the First of Octember.
Think of the glorious things he could do like ignore the child care issue, roll back programs that most especially help women, place tax cuts above health care, child poverty, employment issues….mmm seems he is already doing that.
Perhaps our ignoble PM lives in the land of Octember.
October 18th is Person’s Day. This is a day to commemorate the Person’s Case.
On October 18, 1929, the five Lords of the Judicial Committee came to the unanimous conclusion that “the word ‘persons’ in Section 24 includes both the male and female sex.…” According to them, the exclusion of women from public office was “a relic of days more barbarous than ours.
It is a sad and sobering thought that there are those who would joyously lead us back to those “barbaric” times. Those who see women not as persons in their own right but simply as wombs from which issue the cannon fodder needed to perpetuate war. War against other countries and war against the marginalized.
As we reflect upon Women’s History let us not forget the struggles that we are free not to face. The struggle for education, for our own name, for our own property, to not be included as property, the right to be paid a decent wage, to fight against sexual impropriety in the workplace, the right to control our reproduction, the right to say no in marriage and so much more.
Our fight to keep our rights, to move forward in our struggle, to ensure our daughters’ never have to fight to be recognized as persons in their own right, is one that must not be relegated to the First of Octember.
( cross posted @ Rose’s Place )
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