Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Notorious RBG is gone, and many are devastated. She was an inspiration to a lot of women and girls, and though we are not surprised, it is a blow among so many others right now. I think first of my twelve year old granddaughter and fifteen year old foster granddaughter. She was bound to be more historical myth for them than present fact. But her absence on the Supreme Court leaves their fates in the hands of mainly white males. Why can we not gain any kind of appropriate representation? We're not fighting hard enough. The Women's Marches, the activism, Moms Rising, all the passionate defenders of the ERA, the Feminist Majority, why are we not persuasive? We have followed hook line and sinker our own devaluation. And we have legitimate fears. We fear men because they, especially loved ones, are the most likely to kill us, to take away money for food, hold children hostage, and denigrate us over and over. Liberation has to go hand in hand with protection against domestic violence. I've fought most of my life for victims, but we need to have REAL early childhood education and alerts, so that women hear that abuse is not acceptable and that there are alternatives. Look at the verbal abuse being heaped upon Kamala Harris, just as it was with Hilary Clinton. Speak up, speak out, and demonstrate that women are worth valuing and protecting. RBG did. Now let's take up the mantle.