The Erasing of Women in America
I used to wonder what my mom thought in late 1964, as she awaited my arrival into the world in early 1965. That America was a vastly different place then than it is now, probably the understatement of the year. I wondered what her hope was for me. Like any expectant mother, I am sure what she wanted most was just a healthy newborn with 10 fingers and toes, and everything else in its proper place. But I wondered beyond that. I wondered what she hoped my life would be like. Again, all moms say, “I just want you to be happy.” But no really Mom, what did you envision I would grow up to do? America was a different place, especially for women.
Women could certainly aspire to higher education, but was the unspoken goal of going to college to find a husband? And if she didn’t manage to snag Mr. Right, what sort of job opportunities were there for a woman after college? In 1964, a nurse, teacher, or secretary. Once you got past those choices, the pickings were no doubt pretty slim. The story my mom told of her and my dad looking at brand new apartments made it clear what society thought about a woman who was married and had an income. The rent for those new apartments, $90 a month, a lot of money back then, and if she would have had an income at the time, it would not have counted in the eyes of the apartment manager, because after all, when she had babies, she was just going to quit.
Since the days of Suffragettes, women have had to fight to be seen as equals. In addition to fighting for the right to vote, we have had to fight for equal opportunity for scholarships, jobs, equal pay, the right not to have to endure sexual discrimination and unwanted molestation, and the validation of women’s sports. There are so many women who have fought those fights. But now, all of that is slowly being erased. In fact, the very existence of women, seems to just not be important anymore. Transgenderism is giving a very clear message to women, and that message is, your presence is no longer needed, and in some cases, we are even doing it to ourselves.
The ongoing debate over transgender women, a.k.a., men, competing against biological women in sports is the loudest cry of “you don’t matter.” Those who support this are going to great lengths to insist that female athletes who have worked their entire lives to be the best they can be at their chosen sport, are just transphobic. Recently, an anthropology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, attempted to tell a crowd of people, that the skeletons of men and women are no different. The crowd laughed at him because we learn in common high school biology that there are many differences. The deception continued as an athletics instructor at San Francisco State University recently claimed that there is no “competitive difference” between men and women.
And it seems that not even the Democrat party is coming to the aid of women. You remember the Democrat party, those champions of women’s rights. Not anymore. Recently, the Biden administration announced that there would be changes to Title IX. It would prohibit the outright ban on transgender athletes at any school that receives federal funding. In a moment of wanting to appear magnanimous, the administration stated that there would be certain limitations allowed for “fairness and safety.” It was unclear what could possibly be an acceptable “limitation” when your opponent is a foot taller and outweighs you by 100 pounds. This is also where the “we are doing to ourselves” part comes in. A group of around 40 female athletes, some who will not surprise you, including Women’s Team USA soccer players Megan Rapinoe, Lori Lindsey, Becky Sauerbrunn, former pro basketball player Sue Bird, and Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry, have all signed a letter opposing a bill being introduced in Congress that would protect women’s sports, and have also come out in support of transgender athletes. Is this some kind of weird Stockholm Syndrome? In what world do you ensure your own defeat? In the world of woke ideology that trumps logic, common sense, and biology, and virtue signaling is much more important that training your whole life for something only to have it snatched away from you apparently.
Even the most basic of biological functions of women are being denied. It was Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush who is most famous (or infamous) for using the term “birthing people,” when trying to convince us that biological women were not the only ones to have babies. Again, shouldn’t that same high school biology class have taught us that if a member of a certain species has a uterus, chances are it is a female? The latest insult to women as a whole has to be transgender activist and born-a-dude Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney claims to be transitioning to a woman and is documenting the whole extravaganza on social media with his “365 days of girlhood.” Mulvaney apparently thinks that all women remain somewhere between the ages of 8 and 16. He portrays “girlhood” and by extension, women as shallow, stupid, and only caring about how they look and who notices. It is demeaning and makes fun of who women are. It is completely dismissive of our strength, our grit, and where we have come from to get where we are.
Many of us are old enough to remember those old Virginia Slim cigarette ads from the height of the feminist movement in the 70’s, whose tag line was, “You’ve come a long way baby.” We may have farther to go than we ever would have ever imagined.
