Hello Sherry,
I read your statement to my wife and knowing that she is much better on this subject than I am and with years of experience on the subject I thought it best that she answered you. She is my wife of 40 years. She has been a poltical activist since the age of 6 when she went to door to door. She could read prescient map at the age of 8. She has personally taken on Muller when he was FBI director and they came after her for anonymous speech. We won at the 9th Circuit. She has run for office, got City Councilmen recalled, saved trees, saved historical buildings, changed laws, fought for religious liberty and is the bravest most patriotic woman I have ever known…and I have been politically active for 55 years. My wife is not my equal. She is my better half. She makes me a better man. But she is not my equal and I am certainly not hers. She cannot do what I can do and I cannot do what she can do. She has a gift with children. She can turn a crying child into an accomplished winner champion with a hug, a kiss, and few kind words. I believe this is her greatest gift. And then she will take on a Cop or elected trying to intimidate her with pure ferocity.
She was taking a knee (see Kaepy) years before anyone ever heard of Colin Kaepernick. She was an active War protester at the age of 9.
So here is the answer to your statement by a person more qualified to answer. Not my equal…my better half:
There is Feminism and then there is TOXIC FEMINISM! The toxic variety is was what the women’s movement in the 1970’s brought us. As a young girl growing up in that turbulent time I can tell you I knew those women were crazy. I had grown up in a family with immigrant great-grandparents who made good on the American Dream. I came from a family where women were treated with respect and equality. It was only with my mother embracing Toxic Feminism that this became a personal issue for me. Mother was the first who had stayed home and the first to abandon her responsibilities by embracing this new dangerous Feminism.
If you want to understand the struggle of women do your genealogy. I have and the women in my family were leaders, teachers, missionaries, political activists. So were the men. My women worked WITH their husbands as a team and not against men. The women’s movement of the 70’s portrayed women as some kind of bondage servants locked in basements only being let out to clean. This was the mantra of that movement. I don’t know how old you are but if you are under 45 you probably don’t know the history. The movement was started by educated, bored, rich WHITE women coming out of the Universities. They did not even allow women of color or gay women in. They told the gay women it would be just to tough to get things done with YOU in the group. It was only when the devout WHITE Church going women wouldn’t join that they finally let “those” other women in. Look at their leadership over the years, many ladies of color? NO!
This movement, like most others started in the progressive end of politics, has been used for the nefarious side of politics. We can thank this lovely group for drugs, school shootings, gangs on the streets and every other ill in society. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world and these women abandoned that all important role. It like most movements that didn’t take into consideration the unintended consequences of encouraging an entire generation of mother’s to kick their bastard slave master husbands to the curb and run out on their children. There were no after school programs, no daycare, nothing when these Toxic Feminists like Gloria and Bella leading the charge of the fish not needing a bicycle movement. They didn’t care what would happen to the children, they only cared for themselves. It was totally selfish. It was soul destroying for the abandoned children. They, in fact, thought we could just raise ourselves. It hurt my brothers. It hurt my sister. And it hurt me.
If you take the time to read the Communist Manifesto you will see the blueprint of our new America. If you want to know what equality really looks like this is the story of my great-grandmother who has been my absolute roll model for life as a woman.
She came to this Country in 1904 AD from Italy. She learned to read and write English right away. She married at the age of 16 to my grandfather who was the happiest most content person I ever knew. She had her first and only child at age 20. When he was old enough to go to school she and her sister went into business together. They opened a bakery together and for 40 years were successful. In that time the unions came to town and were trying to organize. They went to her little Sister and Sister bakery and she politely told them, “No Thanks.” She treated her employees with dignity, they made a fair hourly wage, kept all their tips and ate 3 meals a day provided by my grandmother. Do you think those union reps said a kind thing about her or put her up as an example, NO they didn’t. They did however choose to picket her everyday!
Her response to their aggression and attempt to FORCE themselves on the business was to put out carpet each day on the sidewalk for them to be more comfortable, gave them soft drinks and coffee and fed them. Because as a Naturalized Citizen she understood the need to have the ability to exercise free speech! Eventually they her victorious spirit won out and they left her alone. Would you like to know what her next move was? It was to exercise her free speech rights and she had my grandfather filed a petition with the Secretary of State to keep us a right to work STATE because of what had been done to her. She won and Nevada is STILL a Right to Work State. Now that is GOOD feminism in action.
During the depression a local bank was in trouble. They came to my grandfather and asked him to sit on the board and help save the bank. He hated banks and said no, but my grandmother stepped up and helped save that bank! She was married to that same wonderful better half of a man for 70 years and was inconsolable the day my grandfather died. She was, for me, a prime example of what a woman could be. She didn’t scream for equality because she knew, like I know, WE have always had it. We rock the cradle after all. Or at least we used to before so many foolishly gave up that awesome responsibility.
So you can think what you do is working for equality but it isn’t. The modern movement is a men hating frustrated group who have decided the blood sacrifice of the innocent unborn is more important than hard work, self-respect and dignity. Apparently the women in my family, without needing to have a school teach them, knew how to use birth control as well. They didn’t have a gaggle of children.
Women now are spoiled entitled brats who don’t want equal rights they want special rights. They want to be paid equally for jobs that they can’t keep up physically with the men. They also don’t want the hard jobs men have. How many female garbage collectors have you seen lately even with the offer of same pay for equal work? They want to have ALL women in every position of power (except rocking their own cradles) because that will make things all better in their living delusions. After the 2016 election and watching the “liberal women” bend over backwards for Hillary Clinton, the poster child for the #metoo enabler Billy, and a women who savaged her husband’s sexual misconduct accusers in the press. And why did they work for this traitor to women? Because these Toxic Feminists wanted the first woman President and didn’t care about the character of the person.
So now, maybe you will go do some research on your own and become the woman you were born to be, equal. If you have to ask for permission then you will never have it. You either believe you are or you don’t. Screaming in the streets with signs so offensive that it is unimaginable, for the mutilation of children and the family, isn’t equality, it is just a temper tantrum by spoiled entitled girls who have been told their whole lives how much better they are and just expect something for nothing. You want to know what real feminism is, it is taking control and being responsible for your own actions. It is about using birth control and not having abortions for connivence, it is about going to a party and not getting so drunk you pass out and get raped. Yes it is your responsibility.
Christoper’s loving wife and the cradle rocker of his children!