Tag: women’s rights
F–k The Fourth? Why Women Are Protesting This New America.
Summer is in the air, and the Fourth of July is here. While this “Celebration Of America” holiday is usually reserved for barbecues, fireworks, and anything watermelon, women and some strong men are taking to the streets to protest the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade. F–k The Fourth symbolizes a women’s right to choose their healthcare decision when it comes to keeping or aborting a child from their own body.
Women in America are fed up. America is no longer supporting their freedom of choice. So why should women support an Independent America that seems selectively reserved to support men’s rights only? At what point is it just pure hypocrisy to eat a red, white, and blue frosted cupcake, turn up the grill, and don stars and stripes?
Perhaps this new America needs to learn to expect that women will vote, voice their anger, protest and take a knee at the misogynistic society we now find ourselves in. Maybe America needs a wake-up call from women and the strong men that support them. A Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe Vs. Wade was a final nail in the coffin for any hopes of an equal society for Women and Men. In addition to glass ceilings, sexist behavior, and other vulnerabilities as a functioning female in America, our reproductive rights are now at the mercy of the States and a bunch of old white men.
So America needs to accept that we will not allow it. We will not go quietly, and the last thing we will do is submit.
America will watch us wear green today, protest, prepare to vote, and donate to causes that support the Ban Off Our Bodies Movement. And if we feel like it, we may eat a cupcake, drink a beer and celebrate with our friends the strength that we have as we come together to fight this new America. Because an Independent culture no longer resides here. And Fourth of July is now F–cked.
What you can do. Wear green today in solidarity.
- Find a protest near you.
- Support Planned Parenthood
- Vote
Women Are Empowered. And We Will Not Go Backwards.
The Divided States Of America: The Overturning Of Roe Vs Wade
Today we watched on as the Supreme Court took down fifty years of precedent when they overturned Roe v. Wade. Today we watched as they told women and really any minority in this country was told today that they are less important than someone’s right to carry a weapon.
Yes, we knew after the leak that this was coming, however, the assault on Women’s fundamental rights seems to be so traumatic that there was no way to prepare for this. Now I will say that from the Supreme Court leak what we should take is that Abortion and women’s fundamental rights to their bodies is not the only assault that will come into play. We should take the Supreme Court leak very seriously. They are coming after all of our rights. So what we need to do now is mobilize. It’s time to show the people who are so eager to take away the rights that we have fought for so long to keep. We will stand up to this. We will keep voting and fighting until we have fair rights and protections.
These are issues that are going to affect real people. So those real people need to protest in the most American way. They need to continue to make their voices heard. However, that is going to start at the local levels. Make sure that the extremists know that we will not stand for this. That we will be at voting booths, we will be voting them out. There will be nothing that they can do about that. We will vote people in who are going to protect us no matter who their funding is coming from. That we will vote for people who know that lives matter more than guns!
Show the same group of people who keep talking about how we are going to take their right to bear arms away, that we will not let them take our rights as human beings away. The right to our own bodies won’t be taken away without a fight!
Yes, I’m angry. I’m angry because I love this country with my whole heart. However, I cannot sit here and pretend that we are the greatest county in the world. We have so much work to do. When a country puts the rights of a gun before the rights of any human being we have a problem. So let’s stop being a part of the problem. Let’s be a part of the solution. Let’s make this country the greatest. Let’s fix the things that need to be fixed. Starting with protecting women and their rights to their bodies.
Stay safe. Stay informed
Head to the voting booths
Make a change!
It’s My Body And My Choice
The truth about abortion is that, it’s my body and you have no right to tell me what to do with it.
This is ‘Merica. The land of the brave and home of the free. When you tell a woman she can’t have an abortion you’re taking her freedom away.
It’s murder because it’s a human life. But why is its life more important than hers? If she doesn’t want it why should she be forced to carry it? Why should her life change based on something that can’t even contribute to society for at least another 18 years.
The truth about abortion is that you should be able to voice your opinion, but know that it’s just that, your opinion. It should not be apart of anybody’s law.
There are other options… Yes, single motherhood and adoption. Both of which are not choices everybody can face. Single motherhood is hard on the body and the mind, and not everybody is financially stable to provide for themselves let alone a child. Adoption is a life long depression. It’s a day burned into your memory, that you can never let go. The foster care system has thousands of children that need homes, I shouldn’t add another one.
Contraception. Well its hard to prevent something that is already happening. And who are you to force me into putting hormones in my body? That’s already an issue, you telling me what I should do with my body.
And my favorite reason, be celibate. Being celibate is like you showing me all this chocolate cake and telling me I can’t have any, but I really like chocolate cake. And saying if you have unprotected sex and get pregnant that’s your fault is like saying you ate the chocolate cake, which is irresponsible, and now you have diabetes, and you’re on your own. It’s plain rude.
I can say this a thousand times, my body is none of your business, whether you’re my best friend, boyfriend, mother, father, cousin.
A child’s life is precious, I totally agree. But so is my life. So is the life of every woman that gets an abortion. If I’m not ready to let something that needs me for 40 weeks just to have it’s first breath without me, then let me do what I have to do. The world is overpopulated as it is.
The “abortion problem” will stop when everyone starts paying attention to their own body instead of telling other people what they should and shouldn’t do with their body.
Abortion: Why I am Pro-Choice
I am not FOR abortion.
I am not AGAINST abortion.
However, I do believe that every woman has the right to choose what to do with her own body. I believe in preventing fear of having an unwanted child.
I believe that it is your choice to have a baby, but you shouldn’t be forced into it and a child should never feel like a punishment for having sex.
Every child deserves to be brought into this world feeling wanted and loved and it should be against anyone’s morals to tell a woman “well that’s what you get for having sex.”
If you’re against abortion, simply don’t have one.
It is a personal decision, it shouldn’t be a legal debate.
Abortions aren’t for everyone…but neither are children.
Being pro-choice doesn’t mean I dislike children, or want an abortion for myself.
It means that regardless of my personal choices, I believe that all women should have the right to make their own choices about their reproductive health.
I believe that they should be able to seek any and all medical care needed in their lifetime, without judgement.
Yes, I am still a Christian.
Yes, I still love children.
Yes, I want my own family someday.
But no, I don’t think I should get to have an opinion about another woman’s body.
For the woman who can’t afford the child, for the fourteen year old that was raped, for the mom who is putting her own life at risk for a pregnancy, or for the woman who isn’t ready to be a mom for whatever reason at all.
YOU.
HAVE.
A.
CHOICE.
I Believe In Equality, But I Don’t Believe In Today’s Feminism
From a very young age, I’ve been proud to be a woman.
I grew up in a family in which my mother was the bread-winner. My father, may he rest in peace, was not mentally sound, nor capable, of supporting a family. He spent the majority of my life sick, in and out of the hospital for months and years on end. My mother was the one who not only went to work every day, but came home and ensured there was food on the table, a roof over my head, and that every parent-teacher conference, softball game, and camp bus pick-up was taken care of.
My mother raised me in a household that proved a woman can be both the old stereotypical “mother” who takes care of her children, makes sure they are well-off, clothed, fed, and “cheered on,” while simultaneously taking on the role of the old stereotypical “father”—going to work every day and paying the bills.
In a society that tells women that men are in charge—they are the ones who should pay the bills, go to work, run the corporations, make the decisions—I have profoundly disagreed. I saw firsthand that women are strong, capable, intelligent human beings who deserve just as much say in the world, just as much pay, just as much power, as a man. In terms of feminism, I agree that women should be equal. There is no reason that a woman should be paid less, treated less than, or given less of a voice in society and in politics/the word.
But, today, feminism has morphed into something much, much different than gender equality. Instead of fighting for equality and the right to be treated the same as many men are, it’s become a bloodbath of slandering all men—generalizing them into animals, disgusting and drooling animals who do nothing but objectify women and leave us, powerless victims.
Feminism today has lost its tone from when we were fighting for equality. Sure, feminism is still rooted in those very values and morals—that women should be treated equally, given equal opportunities, and equal pay. But, more often, when feminism is talked about and discussed, we’re tearing down men and pinning them as monsters, instead of trying to brainstorm and come up with changes we can make to bring forth this equality we have so longed for and fought for.
Men have no longer been just “men,” and instead, are “sexist,” or “misogynists,” or “pigs.” I don’t discredit the fact that yes, there are men in society who are these things. There are men in society who are pigs. But, all men? No, not all men. It’s time we stop generalizing an entire sex in order to bring forth some “power” for women. It’s hypocritical of us to try to reach equality by stepping on men and pushing them down. That’s not the fight we’re trying to fight. In order to reach equality, we need to embrace equal rights, not try and push feminism down everyone’s throats that women are better than men.
Feminism should be about supporting, lifting, and embracing strong, independent, and powerful women—without having to slander men in the process. I am in full support of women being the breadwinners, women making the changes society needs, and women getting paid and compensated the appropriate and right wage to do so. What I don’t support is man-hating in order to get the job done. Some men are bad, yes. But all men? Not all men.