Sexism in its worst form

I have become even more discouraged about the so-called "equality of the sexes" and the "women's movement" that started when I got out of high school. Burning bras and marches and even the ERA did not do it for us. Sure, there are more jobs open to us but they are still with less money. Very rarely do we get the opportunity and treatment that those with penises do.

It is so frustrating. Finally, this year we have had a woman campaigning FOR PRESIDENT!!! I may not have agreed with her politics but I was so proud. I thought we had finally turned a corner. But no, the sexist comments continued. The attacks because of her vagina instead of penis were incomprehensible. THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE. The issue is what she says that she will do.

So now, we have a person who is an actor, has only been running for office since he gave up his Community Organizing job. (my question is, Did it work? Did it make any change in the southside of Chicago?).

Then we get another woman. One headed for the Vice President position. Wow, I thought. Another strong woman who is more down to earth, has more experience and is one tough cookie. She has intelligent opinions on various topics and is eloquent and believable.

So where does the press go? She should stay home and be Suzie Housewife. She should be with her baby. She is a bad mother because her 17 year old is having a baby. And the angry militant feminists bought into it. They parroted the same thing right back at her just because she was ?pretty, ?smart, ?had a good husband, ????? It sounds like jealousy, or sour grapes, to me.

WHAT?????? Is this anything we should care about? What about her husband? Isn't he a father? Can't he take care of the family? Run the house? Just because he is a very masculine man, an outdoor sportsman, a commercial fisherman, a long distance extreme snowmobile competitor, this makes him unable to also change a diaper? Give me a break! This is double standardism at its worst.,

Did the press ask the question about whether Joe Biden could raise his sons as a single father when he ran for office? No. Should the fact that his sons were injured be cause for him to drop out of the race? Apparently not.

So why do they attack Sarah Palin? Because she is a woman. So why did they attack Hillary Clinton? Because she is a woman. So why did they attack Geraldine Ferraro? Because she is a woman. Get the picture?

The sad thing is the other women who do the same thing. They do not realize that this is a litmus test for us. If we do not get a woman elected during this campaign, we may not see a woman run for office for many years. We will have effectively been shut down.

We need to break that Crystal Ceiling once and for all. We need to stand up and proclaim that we are women and we are equal, and we do not need to have a penis. We need to stand up and tell the mainstream media to get out of our reproductive lives, out of a woman's place in the home and get out of the mommy role they keep wanting to shove us into.

Obama cannot do that for us. He cannot get us where we should be, we alone can do it.

We should rally to get every sexist reporter off the mainstream media screen and paper. Demand equal rights and equal treatment. Get back to the basics and get what we have fought for all these years. The right to be a woman, a feminine person, who does not have to have a biological appendage, or missing leg to the chromosome combination (XX without a leg to stand on is XY).

Stand up women, this is where we can finally let the rest of the world know that WE CAN DO IT. We can quit being second class citizens. We do not need to wear the burkas of convenience that men everywhere want to put on us. The so-called rights they have over us. We can use our brains and our abilities and get whatever we want.