tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post6583174224809896214..comments2023-09-20T11:31:54.194-04:00Comments on Rabble Rouser Ruminations: Where Have All The Girls Gone?Rabble Rouser Reverend Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14965609706204555067noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-49513953208253944352011-08-06T17:03:30.738-04:002011-08-06T17:03:30.738-04:00Mary Ellen, yes, you are absolutely right. The way...Mary Ellen, yes, you are absolutely right. The way little girls are secualized in this country is just sick.<br /><br />What a surprise abt women in Congress - NOT. Here we just had yet another Congressman, Wu, resign because he came on to the 18 yr old daughter of one of his campaign contributors. What is wrong with these people??<br /><br /> SYD said it - all of this is "sad beyond belief."Rabble Rouser Reverend Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965609706204555067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-77293164566542094162011-08-06T17:00:04.421-04:002011-08-06T17:00:04.421-04:00Katmoon, what incredible comments on this very dis...Katmoon, what incredible comments on this very disturbing topic. Thank you so much. You are absolutely spot on.<br /><br />And I understand completely abt your choice of avatar. It makes complete sense to me, and in no way devalues how much you love your grandson. The reality is that, in the USA and around the world, women are still seen as less than. It is the sad reality in which we live...Rabble Rouser Reverend Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965609706204555067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-38260797939117114722011-08-06T13:06:59.939-04:002011-08-06T13:06:59.939-04:00I agree with everything Katmoon said, and would li...I agree with everything Katmoon said, and would like to add that we are seeing more and more in this country the sexual exploitation of our very young female children. Look at the clothes that are being marketed for them, the shows like "Toddlers and Tiara's" where they dress little girls up as if they were adult beauty queens. It's just sick! And to make it worse, it is the mother's of these young female children who are teaching their girls that in order to be beautiful, you must be sexy for your man. What they should be doing is stressing the importance of getting a solid education and working toward a career in the science, medical, engineering etc. fields. How can women break the glass ceiling if they are being held back by their own mothers???? <br /><br />Oh...and a while back, during the big Weiner scandal, I happened to do a little research on how many women in office were ever censured or punished for sexual exploits while in office. Not one. Nada. Zilch. Not only that, there were no women who ever left office due to a sexual scandal. Go figure.Mary Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18096051756459933731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-49340902407348452882011-08-06T07:04:30.602-04:002011-08-06T07:04:30.602-04:00Sad beyond belief.
I really wish there was somet...Sad beyond belief. <br /><br />I really wish there was something else I could say. :~(Stray Yellar Dawg?https://www.blogger.com/profile/04861846247063603370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-70443784863638260032011-08-06T06:52:40.768-04:002011-08-06T06:52:40.768-04:00(Rev. Amy, FYI-Both this comment and the last were...(Rev. Amy, FYI-Both this comment and the last were posted at NQ)<br /><br />I feel I need to add this; the reason for my Avatar; as a reminder to me of my duty to my grandaughter. This isn't to say that I do not love my grandson as much, I do. I am a female, and I am a role model for my grandaughter, and I feel I am honored and bound to cultivate her being to the highest and most positive level I can as a female, to encourage her to be a strong female to be there to support her as a female, to keep her as far away as I can from identifying herself as a cultural assigned stereotype; I will not allow her to fall into the cracks. It is my duty as a woman to keep the path as an example for her, as only another female can, To cherish her first because she is a human being, and understand that she and her brother share that value, equally. To never settle for anything less nor let the culture, a religion or another person assign her value to her. She will learn to value this in herself, for herself, thus be able to value others outside of herself, because they are human beings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208401365281331903.post-76213937318825637372011-08-06T06:51:32.042-04:002011-08-06T06:51:32.042-04:00A very sad, but very needed article, thank-you Rev...A very sad, but very needed article, thank-you Rev. Amy.<br /><br />I am trying to think of a culture, that celebrates the joy of birth(including adoption from that birth) and the relationship that brings forth this wonderful occassion; regardless of the sex of the child. I realize I am thinking a time during my twenties, when we had no real means of finding out the sex of a child, and when the greatest outcome for my own pregnancy was for a healthy child.The nursery was not pink or blue, but greens and yellows, so as to allow this beloved child to simply be.<br /><br />I consider what has changed since that time, here in the United States and the world over. To begin with women have been devalued further into either body parts, that promote sexual pleasure or a war strategy to be used against a nation by initiating mass rape of the female population(think Kosovo-Congo, etc) or as a product to be sold on the market to either serve a pedophile/pimp/ or slave owner as a marketing means, and as a whipping post for anger, to be murdered, beated and finally as a slave to exist to serve the male of specfic cultures steeped in a religious tradition that requires it.<br /><br />To be sure, these scenarios for women have been around for as long as we have; what has changed is the acceptance of it; with nary a law a bill here and there and a pet project for a group to throw some money at. There is very little concerted effort outside of Amnesty international to address this issue; but what does it have to do with the infanticide of future little girls?<br /><br />To this day in some countries women are subjected to rejection and abandonment, and sometimes death for giving birth to a girl.<br /><br />In some places a woman must consider what future their child will have based on their sex; where rape is common place for little children; o r the child is seen as a yoke upon the family because of the family they live in, if it is a family in a poor country, that allows for the selling of children as a commodity.<br /><br />In other places a female child can only bring either honor or discrace to the family, where a male child will rarely have to walk that same path.<br /><br /><br />Yet elsewhere, female children are not allowed to be educated. Intellect is not needed for the life before them. Women do not hold high political office, as they are not treated the same by those supporting the current political climate. Women are subjected to further scrutiny than their male counterparts, for everything and anything to do with governing of a country.<br /><br />What this has to do with aborting baby girls is one singular fact IMHO- women are not considered to be actual, living, breathing, contributing human beings(for all the reasons and more than I listed above). Sex identification of a fetus has only pronouced this issue. Instead of adopting out baby girls, they are destroyed, simply because they are female.<br /><br />I am still trying to think of a culture, that celebrates the joy of birth(including adoption from that birth) and the relationship that brings forth this wonderful occassion; regardless of the sex of the child. I can no longer give a single culture credit for this, not even my own, where murder of pregnant women is one of the leading causes of death for women, right here at home. I will not blame men as a whole or women either, as we are all to blame for allowing sexism to this degree to be so easily accepted. If this were a race of people, Amendments would be made(they have),wars<br />would be fought(they have), but for some reason, still there is not battle cry to wake up a species that insists on destroying half of itself. It has not changed for centuries and will not, until forced to by comprehension from both males and females that life of either sex is to be cherished; men are not created as a tool to be killed in war and women are not a walking body part meant to only reproduce males.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com