Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We watched Mad Max:  Fury Road last night.  My husband likes the explosions and chases and I find myself identifying with Furiosa.  I see why I picked warrior at the Archetypes talk.  I feel Furiosa's passion to save the women from the patriarchy, and that's what I tried to do the twelve years I worked in safehouses.  She wanted them to have freedom and dignity, and she wanted to be free herself.  She's quite a heroine, and the arm being gone just makes it as if she can kick ass with one hand tied behind her back.  This is a culture where half the female population wants fairness and autonomy and the other identifies with traditional patriarchal roles for women.  It's hard, I know, to imagine a world where we would be fully RESPONSIBLE for ourselves, and it's scary but oh so liberating.  Can we take the step?  Can our country be led by a woman as other countries have?  I'd like to break out of this strange cocoon of American females where our responsibility is to be sexy, handle all of the emotional and family life, and work too, while misogynistic males yip at our heels.  Let us be whatever we want and need, without being dictated to by Congress or the courts or the "bosses".  Furiosa is my model.  She defies the confines of what a woman is.