From Julia Ward Howe’s September 1870 “Appeal to womanhood throughout the world.“ These words were written as a women’s response to war. This Appeal is now often referred to as The Mother’s Day Proclamation. The gun violence of today tallies deaths comparable to those of war. “But women need no longer be made a party to proceedings […]
Women Not Cut From the Same Cloth, But…
I’ve been mulling over this post for weeks. There are things that have to be said that border so many issues it is almost impossible to write about them without getting lost in tangents. I love tangents but they are slippery and can sidetrack as well as illuminate through example. I know I am not […]
Fallopitarians, Universalists, and Revisionist American Religious History
I think my husband stumbled across a new term that I like. Fallopitarian. It comes from one of SlowPoke’s editorial cartoons. Seems that surreal absurdist argument is the only thing that comes close to describing the mental state of a small rather extreme group of patriarchal folks who really believe that they are better, more […]
I Have a Say and I Participated
I posted a short personal video as part of ProChoice America’s I HAVE A SAY campaign to send videos about what birth control means to individual women to anti-choice legislators. You can participate too. Just make a video on your computer. Upload it to You Tube and include the words, “I have a say” […]
Erma Bombeck Warned Us
We are all Erma Bombeck now. I was perusing the Pinterest pins and surfed over to a site containing Erma Bombeck quotes when I realized that at least half of the bloggers I read are following in the ink stained trail of Erma’s wit and wisdom. But then I’ve always thought Erma was far […]
The Evolution of a Concept
Long ago at the turn of the century several people started to realize that there was something amiss in our culture with how people of our age – people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s – were perceived. I started a list at that time called late boomers and shortly after that started […]