Welcome to Crone's World - A Feminist View from the Front

My generation is from the 70's where women were still discovering how to be women and feminists were proud of that title. We marched and Took Back the Night, Our Bodies, Our Selves, and promoted Self Love over Free Love.  Those were heady days, days when one felt one could do anything - achieve our dream as women in our own right.

What the hell happened?

Somehow our generation ran smack into bringing up the 80's women who seemed content to ride our coat tails, and shuddered at the image of a feminist equating it with 'man-eater', dressed themselves in bows and lace, and then produced the 90's generation of women, who seem to take hard fought for rights for granted - blissfully unaware that these rights are being eroded even as I write this.

Say it ain't so!

It ain't.  There are still plenty of women working together for women's rights - not only here - but around the world. More women have achieved leadership positions in the US in business, finance, economics, and politics, education, the sciences and the arts. The children of our children's loins have had their balloon deflated and are beginning to see that, in the case of women's rights, the fight has to move forward. Unequality and our rights is still our - A WOMAN'S - fight.

Still I am being niggled at inside by annoyance as I see a general passive attitude still permeate like an annoying hot, wool shawl over us - from my generation to today's. The attitude that allows us look at today's political campaign and realize that, despite a woman having the popular vote, an unqualified man was chosen. Instead of being up in arms over this, women of all ages, genders, and enthnicities have caved in and are saying, "Well - at least he's a Democrat; we'd better fall in line and back him because he's better than a Republican."

I'm a life-long Democrat and I'm thinking - THIS is a reason???

Barack Obama has made no promises to our sex- our gender. The fact that he has been making nice with the Conservative Right lately beeps a big RED ALERT to me and to other women. He is NOT even considering a woman, any woman, seriously as a Vice-Presidential candidate! Look who he is hanging out on platforms with! Sorry, ladies, nary a woman in sight!

I say it is time to rally, girls, women, teens and crones. I think we should be promoting a Women's Party candidate. I think the time has come.