A Person Should Control Her Fate
All choice of what to do with one’s life should be up to the person living it
When Gloria Steinem was just a “girl,” and I was even younger, I heard a chant that went like this:
“Not the church. Not the state. A woman should control her fate.”
Equal opportunity
Although I was young, I was appalled at all the opportunity and encouragement that my older brothers had that girls did not. I noticed that at most parks and playgrounds, boys had the majority of sports. And cars. And weapons. And voice. And military service. And best paying jobs, (and paying jobs at all).
Although it has improved a bit since then, men are still much more likely to be clergy, astronauts, world leaders, billionaire CEOs, movie stars, music stars, athletic stars, scientists, and politicians.
Girls and women are still more likely, now, in 2024, to be impoverished, raped, beaten, harassed, denied health care, and blamed for the entire fall of man. Or, nowadays, the fall of civilization — because women are so uppity and mouthy. We just can’t seem to know our place.
The cause of this, of course, is that women want more than one place.
