THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN
by John
Davis
Today is a turning point and
the feminists are speaking truth to power. The moment to effect change nears and
feminists both female and male sense it.
As the current President of the United
States casts aside any question of where he stands on women’s rights, a
groundswell of power is stirring.
A
demonstration of this energy was evident in the feminist march on George
Busch’s home turf in Washington DC.
At the same mall where Martin
Luther King spoke his famous words, woman after woman after man did speak. They
spoke to women of all ages transferring the knowledge of the elders to the
strong open minds of the newest generation.
The result was a unity of mind and
spirit that cannot be easily described. It is an ancient strength. It is the
same strength that bonds mother to child. It is the strength of bearing and
birthing. It is also the internal choice of strength that lives in within
women.
This is not a choice that can
be transferred to elected Presidents, Kings, Dictators or Shamen. It is a
permanent possession of women, not husbands, and not of the Vatican in
Rome.
Women have fought for equal
rights, for voting rights, for the right to privacy and the right to choice in
whether to bear potential life in their bodies or not. And they have won every
battle. Women are as powerful as a hurricane and as gentle as a silken mist,
therein rests their power.
Viking
women were an early expression of this equality. Just think of it, their men
sailed off on great adventures conquering lands far and wide including the once
invincible Rome. They then brought treasure home to the Viking women who were
vested with the right to own property, to divorce, and probably the right to
control the most sacred possession of all, their own
bodies.
In this age when population
of the planet will double rapidly threatening the world’s atmosphere, food
and water supplies, forests and seas, women must stand to protect not just their
reproductive rights, but the very stability and balance of the earth. They must
make the decision as individuals incorporating the wisdom of their
elders.
The unsaid arguments of
oppressors can be stated in simple
form;
• Governments need to
control wombs to create armies of sons and daughters to fight and die for
special interests that have no direct impact on women except to deprive them of
their right of choice.
•
Corporations need to control wombs to ensure creation of new consumers of
medicine, plastic toys, and junk
food.
• Theologians need a
growing congregation to expand the power of the Church. In fact the Vatican now
threatens to withhold the sacrament of Christs body from those who see and say
the ownership of women’s rights.
However, the eternal rights of women are rising as a tide, above the head of
King George. Now he struggles but cannot swim in a sea of feminine empowerment.
A great wave of female voters will sweep the Bush legacy away, forever. In
November women will thunder.
Posted: Sat
- May 1, 2004 at 04:04 PM