Mirriam Webster defines “society” as a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests but to simplify I’d call a society a place with an agreed upon set of truths or rules. Without these mutually agreed upon truths we would have nothing as evidenced by the growing divide between the members of the society within the United States. More and more I am seeing calls to dismiss the notion of gender and race, our shared history and even our borders.

At first questioning our current idea of gender seems to be a…

Society’s Acceptance of Child Abuse

When I was eight years old I told my mother I wanted to cut my breasts off….if I ever got any. My mother simply shrugged and said “why don’t we cross that bridge when we come to it?” This was coming from a child who allowed her older sister to cut off her long blonde hair, hair that was an enviable shade of white only a child can achieve, in favor of a boy’s bowl cut. I played in mud puddles on rainy days, you could find me and my little brother sitting in the street next to the curb…