Today marks National
Women’s Equality Day! …AND National Dog Day. Haha Oh the irony…
This day was created
by in 1971 by United States President, Richard Nixon, “to
commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the country on an
equal basis with men.” The vote was granted to women on this day in 1920. Its
funny though how this is something to celebrate, and yet we haven’t really
moved forward at all, have we? I remember a high school teacher of mine who
used to rant about the saying “we’ve come a long way, baby” because in fact, we
really haven’t…we’ve actually only created a bunch of gadgets to distract us
from the fact that we aren’t progressing at all. We’re celebrating women being
given the right to vote, and yet many women don’t even have basic human rights.
Many women don’t have the right to make decisions for their own bodies – their own
person. And, while I realize this rant has nothing to do with the fact that
woman in “the free world” are able to cast a decision on who they’d like to
elect, I’m not sure how much of a celebration it truly is until all women in
all areas of the world have access to these lacking basic human rights! I am
not a feminist by any means, but as a fellow human being, I think it’s sad that
we still see women as something different from a man, in the same way that I
can’t conceive how we treat those who like the same sex far differently than
those who like the opposite sex, never mind anyone else who may vary outside of
those two “accepted” possibilities.
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