A Moonlit Walk

Tonight before I began getting three very adorable little girls ready for bed I stepped outside to get some fresh air.  The house was a warm 78 degrees and outside it was in the low 60's.  It was so georgeous that I decided to ask if anyone wanted to go for a quick walk.  They all decided that they did want to enjoy some of the night air before faces and hands got washed and it was time for bed.  Putting on sweaters they exited the house with me and two fluffy very happy dogs.  We walked and it was dark.  Reilly was a little frightened and wanted to be carried a portion of the way, but for the most part it was an unusual adventure and I thought to myself how much life has changed for kids and I don't believe it to be the for the better.  When I was little and when my parents were little children could go outside and play until it was getting dark.  Often you walked home in twilight, and sometimes if you were lucky adults would let you play bloody murder or tag after dark in large groups.  The adults would sit on their porches drinking their favorite beverage and talk to the neighbors while watching all of the kids from a distance and ensuring that they were safe.  How sad is it that my kids don't get this opportunity and will not make this sort of memory.  I view it as a lack of society and also of the justice system that we have to hide our children away from the very thing that inspires creativity and imagination-nature.  Then there are video games which just stunt their growth and give them carpal tunnel at a younger age and contribute to obesity and heart disease.  I think I will try to organize some sort of after school kids play group in the neighborhood and see if I can find any takers.  I doubt I will, so walks and other games will have to be played by only family, but that is still fun.  Another thing I have been greatly upset by lately is the state of Womens rights in this country.  I have noticed time and time again that the only way a woman is allowed to be aggressive is sexually.  It is if the whole womens movement ended the day they burned all the bras.  Men said, sure you can be free sexually.  Sure you can be assertive sexually!  What has it gotten us?  More pornography and abuse of women and children.  More women dying of heart disease because they are now doing literally EVERYTHING.  They are working outside the home, going to school, doing the majority of the household chores, and still have to "ask" their husbands to "babysit" their own kids.  On top of that they are to be the nurturers for the elderly and the disabled!  Many men are not working.  I am married to  one, and it is not just that they are not working-they do nothing in the home.  I have needed my own home cleaned for weeks while he had nothing to do and I was working on schooling and interviews only to do the housework while he watches Anime or looks at pornography.  What is the world coming to?  There are men who would say that this is the fault of the equal rights movement.  To them I would say "NO, it is the result of the twisting and abuse of the womens movement!"  Women are so easilly duped it seems these days there are many that believe that they are enjoying equal rights while they are solely responsible for the majority of childcare and they are also doing all of the work!  The goal of feminism should not be to make women like men!  It should not be the goal of women everywhere to eliminate mens need to contribute!  The goal should be for male and female to be EQUALLY emotionally and physically invested in the rearing of their children, and EQUALLY invested in the support and maintenance of a household.  This includes concerns over their physical and psychological health.  If this became the norm men would struggle with feelings of guilt when they worked as women do.  If this became the norm men would worry about the women out there who are first abused and then used to make pornography to benefit men who make the lions share of profits and considered respectful while they are shunned except in circles that want to perpetuate the cycle of use, and not accept it.  If this were to be the norm a woman who is in her 50's would be more valuable at the office than one in her 20's.  If this were to become the norm wars would be waged less and discussion would rule the day.  If this were the norm, men would be happier and so would their children.  They don't see however that their dominance and enslavement of women is really the chains that bind them and cause them not to be free.  Religion is another tool for these men to keep women fighting amoungst themselves and submissive through distraction and  concern over being a "righteous" woman.  It plays to their fears and inadequacy and excuses their feelings as sinful instead of good judgement.  This needs to change!  The steps and discussion that Elizabeth Cady Stanton started over one hundred years ago needs to be finally taken up again!  Her ideas, radical for the time, were right and were inspired by God.  Who could condemn a woman who had raised so successfully a family and who had walked so victoriously in so many philisophical debates before?  It is time for women to stop bickering amoungst themselves, hold those who are truly responsible for the hurt they feel accountable, and to get past religious sentiment to understand that Eve did not make them the forever bound slave to mankind!  Gods words to her were a prediction of what would come at mans hands not a prison sentence!  Women wake up!  It is not through submission to men that you will gain your salvation!  It is not through stupidity and acceptance of injustice or inaction!  It is through the love of your sisters and through the path of discovering yourselves.  Can you imagine what we could accomplish if we were to make men accountable for their own sins?  Can you imagine if instead of looking at that 16-25 year old beautiful young girl as a threat something evil you looked at your significant other drooling over her as a threat and something evil what the world would become?  Yes men wouldn't like it at first.  At first they would be downright upset that women were defending ALL women EVERYWHERE!  They would have no one to dominate, no one to convince of their inferiority based on purely physical attributes.  They would have to start caring about more than mating and more than surface features.  To many of you I know this prospect seems scary.  Many of you enjoy blaming that women in the grocery store for your husbands wandering eyes, and some of you have learned to enjoy the fact that he leaves you alone.  This is wrong.  You deserve more and so does your significant other.  It is time to rewrite society and womens role in it.