A wonderful letter tonight. Yes, Speak their Names! Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Minor, Mary Church Terrell, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo, Constance Baker Motley. And countless others.
A wonderful letter tonight. Yes, Speak their Names! Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Minor, Mary Church Terrell, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo, Constance Baker Motley. And countless others.
And Gloria Steinem and other brilliant leaders during the so called, Women's Lib movement of the 1960's and into the 1970's.
My wife pointed out yesterday some of the benefits men achieved from the Movement -- being able to stay at home and look after the kids, not being the primary bread winner, being able to work in traditionally female jobs like teachers and nurses and even clerks and wait staff, etc.
Gloria Steinem achieved so much with the help of many others, but Project 2025 and the Republican in Congress keep pushing the patriarchy on us.
Another benefit was that widowed women with children could finally have a say which allowed women to hold property and wealth, make financial decisions & have credit, and could work to support herself and children. This wasn’t possible for women in every state or at all at some time. This increased the likelihood of a man’s children to survive and thrive instead being at the mercy of a male next of kin’s decisions, the State, or wife’s next husband.
Many Women from that era who fought for equality are still alive today. It feels like it should be over a century ago. But just like American Democracy is in a tenuous position, rights and freedom for many of us can change back to zero.
White men think they’re safe, and they are in many ways, but not from abuse of authority or those who consider themselves better.
Permission to treat one group as less is to give permission for another group to treat them as less.
We either fight together for Equality For All or we eventually end up with Equality For None.
JJ, you can imagine all these ladies rolling over in their graves as they see their female ancestors’ rights being attacked 100 years later just as the right of black men to vote was under attack 100 years after the 14th amendment was passed. It seems that systemic privilege endowed by government or religion is hard to extinguish; like a poisonous snake, it hides in the corner until circumstances allow it to raise its venomous head and strike anew.
A wonderful letter tonight. Yes, Speak their Names! Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Minor, Mary Church Terrell, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo, Constance Baker Motley. And countless others.
And Gloria Steinem and other brilliant leaders during the so called, Women's Lib movement of the 1960's and into the 1970's.
My wife pointed out yesterday some of the benefits men achieved from the Movement -- being able to stay at home and look after the kids, not being the primary bread winner, being able to work in traditionally female jobs like teachers and nurses and even clerks and wait staff, etc.
Gloria Steinem achieved so much with the help of many others, but Project 2025 and the Republican in Congress keep pushing the patriarchy on us.
"We're not going back!!!" - Kamala 2024
Another benefit was that widowed women with children could finally have a say which allowed women to hold property and wealth, make financial decisions & have credit, and could work to support herself and children. This wasn’t possible for women in every state or at all at some time. This increased the likelihood of a man’s children to survive and thrive instead being at the mercy of a male next of kin’s decisions, the State, or wife’s next husband.
women owning credit cards "in their own name" was only established in Canada in the early 70s. Even then i don't think i realized that.
Many Women from that era who fought for equality are still alive today. It feels like it should be over a century ago. But just like American Democracy is in a tenuous position, rights and freedom for many of us can change back to zero.
White men think they’re safe, and they are in many ways, but not from abuse of authority or those who consider themselves better.
Permission to treat one group as less is to give permission for another group to treat them as less.
We either fight together for Equality For All or we eventually end up with Equality For None.
Lisa, I love what you have written. Thank you.
I am 72, I remember & I'm NOT going back!!!
Here's a Forbes article on this and other discrimination issues. It looks as if Canada piggybacked on the American initiative.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/#:~:text=Editorial%20Note%3A%20We%20earn%20a,our%20editors'%20opinions%20or%20evaluations.&text=Although%20we%20may%20not%20think,credit%20card%20in%20their%20name.
JJ, you can imagine all these ladies rolling over in their graves as they see their female ancestors’ rights being attacked 100 years later just as the right of black men to vote was under attack 100 years after the 14th amendment was passed. It seems that systemic privilege endowed by government or religion is hard to extinguish; like a poisonous snake, it hides in the corner until circumstances allow it to raise its venomous head and strike anew.