We have entered into an era of not only US women fighting but women all over the world. One glorious outcry a combined solidarity movement that has governments across the globe scrambling to appease or disburse the women. What we take for granted in the US is met with imprisonment and possibly death in other countries. Interestingly enough we are not that much different in the war that we fight. What we really all want  is freedom. Now I know that women in the United States would say they are already free and yes they’re right-partially.  Consider all the hurdles and stigmas that women must go through just to have a place in society. There was a time when a woman’s existence was identified through her husband. She would even had to ask his permission for everything, even to get a job and voting was an entirely different issue. Of course a lot of that has changed but it was a slow going process. Now women are employed in many fields even doing some jobs that are usually reserved for men. Yes that’s progress, but at what cost? Women endure mountains of sexual harassment and assault, unequal pay and little access to a promotion. Women owning homes on their own isn’t an easy task, just like taking your car to the mechanic you must take a “male chaperon” so you won’t get taken advantage of. Women doing anything on their own without a husband is still frowned upon in most cases.
Women who have suffered severe domestic violence and are now ready to move forward face discriminatory practices by the court system, landlords and employers reminding them that this stigma will never go away because you are marked. So many laws designed to protect survivors of domestic violence but no one wants to treat them as human. Some new gun control laws center around men who abuse their wives forcing them to relinquish their weapons upon realization they are a domestic abuser but when that same wife is in the courts pleading for her life, silence. That is the reality. It may sound familiar because these stories are coming out of other countries across the globe. Single mothers are not having fun either. With recent cuts to programs that help them stay afloat many become homeless and those that find work struggle to the point of hopelessness. The list is too long. We have been getting a lot of attention though some good, some bad but at least we are opening a badly needed conversation.
We hope, we pray for a paradigm shift that will work in our favor something that will put us on equal footing so we all have a fighting chance in the world given to us. This is why we march, protest, write, blog, advocate and rage. It shouldn’t always be a fight to move up in our careers, own a business, buy a home, work in a field that is mostly dominated by men and if it is we should be treated with respect and not like a blow-up doll. As it is we get condescended to by doctors, lawyers, contractors etc. This is not rocket science I know this because I have seen men treat women with respect and value them so I know it can be done. Just don’t be that guy that jumps on the bandwagon because he wants to cover up his own indiscretions by blaming other men. We can see through that lie very quickly. Change will not come easily or fast so until then, women will be in the center of it all until we get what we’ve been fighting for for decades. Freedom.

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