Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
After watching this society, this culture, this last mass shooting...
I have to ask...
Is this "YOUR" god? You know the one that hates gays...condones slaves...oppresses women...bomb countries to spread democracy...I mean capitalism...slaughtered the indigenous Americans...caused financial depression on the middle class and the poor?
Oh wait...women aren't given the voice they deserve...the voice based on the rampant murders from New York to California we really need right now.
In a country that has an amazing history of its women's leaders is mind boggling.
Native American women were tribal leaders, warriors, equal to the men.
African women were queens, leaders, educated, warriors, got to dictate their successors at times...they were women.
The temperance movement in America...women!
Safe working conditions in America...women!
When our children were dying from drunk driving...women took the charge!
Now something is needed...your voice.
We men, this nation needs, the GIVER OF LIFE to save us from ourselves.
You have to demand that, we as a people do something about our failings.
The men wont admit that this isn't working...to be honest in another week we wont even have done a damn thing about all the lives we have taken in the name of sport, mental illness, revenge, war, religion, conflicts, democracy, bravado, machismo, stupidity, fear, and insecurity.
You see we don't get what child birth is...WE DON'T!
We don't understand that we have gone too damn far...WE DON'T!
We are too busy justifying...obfuscating...keeping the status quo...satisfying those that pay us to keep them rich...politicizing...getting on soap boxes to defend our latest drama.
This situation requires a woman's touch.
You are our Alpha and Omega.
Our saving grace...because if you sat us down and asked us to be honest as to how can we do better...the answer would be disappointing...
Based on the society we have made...
WE DON'T...KNOW.
We have sailed through history on faith, ignored facts, and tried our level best to keep a fucked up situation from falling apart in the hopes that you wouldn't call us on our bullshit.
We aren't that strong...
We obviously aren't that wise...
We obviously...have failed...
You might want to step in before we try to fix something else...how many babies can we afford to take from you...
Before...
You...
Give...
No...
More?
This....
ReplyDelete"if you sat us down and asked us to be honest as to how can we do better...the answer would be disappointing..."
This is the problem. Answer? Some of you won't answer at all. You ( i mean the rhetorical you) so abhor being challenged at all, much less by women that most times it's pointless to ask.
And right.. the answer we do get is disappointing, frustrating, counter-productive... IN GENERAL.
There are far too few men like YOU.
I will do my best but i'm thinking men will listen to other men better than they will to us.
But i'm not abdicating. What my MO is, is to do what i think best no matter how much the men around me kick and scream. Then they learn to live with my decisions and eventually come to appreciate them.
I'm the queen of passive aggressive. I've had to be. I can't be bothered with the arguing, cajoling, .. oh and worst of all ... the WAITING for men to get around to it.
OK, i'm babbling. I'm trying to figure out how best to get at this.
We need to keep talking cuz as we do ideas come to me.
we... I... need the input from the "good" men.
You're at the top of that list.
You need us but we need you. We need your strong arms, your deep voices, your soothing rhythms in the darkest night. In some ways we do things differently, but for every Steinem there is a Schlaffly, for every Maddow there is a Palin.
ReplyDeleteCome with us and share the burden and do not spare us your tears. Together we can protect OUR children.