Thank you so much!! Instant follow. Hope this snowballs, but I don’t have a lot of faith in straight men, who have more at stake … they can face unwanted fatherhood and partners endangered by pregnancy complications, but they ignore the issue diligently.
Thank you, Lawrence! This country needs many more men like you to stand up for us (women). It is so frustrating to witness the regression from what we started a century ago to gain equal rights. The backlash against women’s rights today is due to men’s oppression of women and the audacity of women thinking they can be treated with respect and dignity.
Instead men want to retain their privilege and are terrified of giving women any chance at all to be treated like equal human beings. After all, women have been owned by and subservient to men for centuries. They’ll be damned if they’re going to give up all that power, privilege, and servitude, for women’s sake. They believe they have too much to lose. Misogyny rules.
I would like to address what I can only call a mis-accolade. The wonderful, incredible and quit entertaining Bodhana Sivanandan, was in the news today. She beat a Grand Master at chess, 50 plus years her senior. I love chess, even though I ‘m a poor player really. The problem with the accolades is that they said it was incredible, not just because of her age but because of her gender. !!!!!! What? What happened to all the progress we have made in womens’ rights? I know they (the news) were trying to be complementing, but come on!!! Women are amazing. women are brilliant. The only reason MORE women aren’t chess Grand Masters is because for centuries society has frowned on women playing chess, “when they should be sewing or serving their men”. I was appalled at this statement. It wasn’t surprising because of her gender, it was over due!!
Nice! This is a powerhouse of a post! Thank you Lawrence!
Thank you so much!! Instant follow. Hope this snowballs, but I don’t have a lot of faith in straight men, who have more at stake … they can face unwanted fatherhood and partners endangered by pregnancy complications, but they ignore the issue diligently.
Thank you, Lawrence, for this :o) *heart thump! :o)
Thank you, Lawrence! This country needs many more men like you to stand up for us (women). It is so frustrating to witness the regression from what we started a century ago to gain equal rights. The backlash against women’s rights today is due to men’s oppression of women and the audacity of women thinking they can be treated with respect and dignity.
Instead men want to retain their privilege and are terrified of giving women any chance at all to be treated like equal human beings. After all, women have been owned by and subservient to men for centuries. They’ll be damned if they’re going to give up all that power, privilege, and servitude, for women’s sake. They believe they have too much to lose. Misogyny rules.
Thank you for writing this, Lawrence!
I would like to address what I can only call a mis-accolade. The wonderful, incredible and quit entertaining Bodhana Sivanandan, was in the news today. She beat a Grand Master at chess, 50 plus years her senior. I love chess, even though I ‘m a poor player really. The problem with the accolades is that they said it was incredible, not just because of her age but because of her gender. !!!!!! What? What happened to all the progress we have made in womens’ rights? I know they (the news) were trying to be complementing, but come on!!! Women are amazing. women are brilliant. The only reason MORE women aren’t chess Grand Masters is because for centuries society has frowned on women playing chess, “when they should be sewing or serving their men”. I was appalled at this statement. It wasn’t surprising because of her gender, it was over due!!