Being

 

It's a journey.
I know this.

I'm going to let this departure sit on my blog.

Not a good moment though, just a late night ramble.

I had hoped that prior to learning WOMEN could go be equally placed in combat positions a few "issues" might have been worked out.
I hoped.

Let's see if I can articulate this.

I'd like to see as close as possible in the Senate, House, and Presidency- women having- a half of the time- the positions. So that's 44 male Presidents so far- will women be taking us well into another century?
Will we see a Madam President and a First Gentleman?

 I believe if we are counting that would be a step we need.
100 years of women President's.
It's a step we might concede.

I'd like half the Supreme Court to be judicious women.

I'd like to see women in university-Ivy League too- as faculty in math and science.

Understand not a token few.

Half.

I'd like to see women as half the accepted applicants to all areas in colleges.
And all PHD's.

I'd like to see half a President's cabinet re- filled by women candidates.
Let that proceed.

Yeah. Hum.
Can women succeed?

And read all of this as fully qualified OF COURSE.

Not a token.

I'd like to see women's professional baseball, basketball and gosh knows an equivilent of football -if not football-being the central turn on for a nation of fan struck sports addicts.
Click that clicker to FemPlay.

Not in just college.
Broadcast them 24/7 in Sports Highlights and all the rest of it- with those gosh awful nostalgic remember the Pantherettes in 74 in the snow- hour long running tributes when it's too late for a game and too early for a what if.

I'd like to see women artists command the prices, attention and gallery space.
As we pause to hear them speak.

I'd like students in schools to know the history of women to the extent they know the history of men.
Who was in a battle at Cow'sRun.
Who hid five slaves.
Where did that atom plunge?

First, ahead of combat, I'd love to see the day when a woman does not feel compelled by
Reality Housewife to think a man is the destination.

And consumption alone her opportunity to shine.

Or decorate.
Shop and gyrate.

I'd like to first see my two daughter's share equal pay.

I'd first like to see an Amendment.

Yeah.

Woman or Man.

Equal, hum, what did we miss in legislating?

I'd like first to see "mothering" defined as noble work, and ascribed actual value, and held in highest esteem. And shared work.
Paid work?

I'd just like us to see women get away from anorexia and bulimia.
Not see  thinness as a virtue "for a woman."
In teaching- as much as I dearly love women were sheltered here for a place to work-how wonderful it would be to see a campus of men, and women, because women were attracted to other available jobs that paid them well.
And men saw the work as their mission.
Oh how wonderful if nurses were male.
Perhaps I'm dreaming.

Even the houses of fashion if we must fixate on bangs-how cool would it be to be half women-and perhaps, just maybe what a First Lady cuts or wears will be forever, gently pushed aside by her works.
Could a First Lady be allowed who isn't Belle but has a wart and carries in the books and poetic dreams of women as writers to champion?
 But they tell me it's biology.

I'd like to first see every single commercial that shows women as dumb, desperate, objectified found inappropriate, the equivalent of  racism.
I'm confused.
By the new definitions of progress.

I first like to see a discussion.

Of what right now seems a train running mighty fast down the track.

Because, I'm not especially thrilled that the first really powerful statement on equality involves combat. Realizing women want those opportunities and I'm holding onto my own revulsion for violence. 

But, why do we still hand out Barbie?

Why isn't Ms. Frizzle at least a doll we try to promote?

Why can't I see someone like a me in the White House?

And why is taking a bullet ahead of positions in the research labs or footprints on the moon what's happening?

Why can't we sing a song about a man being more like a woman?