THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN INTENSIFIES
The determination of the patriarchy to pulverize women and the Feminine Spirit is nowhere better demonstrated than by the permitted entry of transgendered males into women’s competitive sports.
This is the pattern of the ages. Women win the right to divorce, and upon decree, half of their earnings is given to the male. Women’s Studies programs disclose to women their silenced history, and Gender Studies is introduced. Women set up their own competitive events, and a six-foot transgendered male competes against a five-foot biological woman.
We are told to deny what we can see with our own eyes by a simulacrum of a language that has as its basis political expediency.
Whereas through the ages, women were denied the votes, divorce, the right to their dowries, their autonomy, they continued to be recognized as having existence. But now, the word “woman” has no meaning. Anyone, any thing can be a “woman.”
Now, we live in a newly man-made universe of words utterly disconnected from reality and meaningful connections. Women are denied their very existence by language far more ingenuous than anything George Orwell ever dreamed of.
But then – and this will rile all sorts of people – why do women continue to imitate the behaviors of men? Why must women COMPETE in games the way men do? Games are played for fun. Were played for fun. The commercialization and monetization of games is scarcely commensurate with the Feminine Spirit. When women imitate men’s customs and activities, they betray themselves.
Women have access to the Feminine Spirit. Historically, women do not compete with each other.
By turning what can be joyous activity – playing games – into competitive monied activity – women have once again lost out to the men, in this case, to the transgendered men.
In a world running amok, governed by a depraved patriarchal mindset, women have work to do, Our work begins with understanding who we are and where we came from, with know.ng the history of our foremothers, recognizing how the currently sick world has been constructed by arrogant male sen andibilities. In contradistinction, women’s work requires that we develop our full potential, respond to our individual calling, and display our gifts. We have the work and wisdom of generations of foremothers to guide us. Women will have that wisdom only if we know our history.
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MIRIAM REED
As Writer & Researcher
I have had the privilege of discovering and discussing the power of the Feminine. I hope I have contributed to an appreciation of the unrecognized contribution of women, women of all color, of all races, the single mothers, the war widows, the pioneers and innovators, all those who defied the patriarchal norm, who offered and lived the power of the committed, grounded, Feminine consciousness, as mothers, teachers, spinsters, daughters, as women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony learned from Native American societies and had the courage to defy convention and embody their new concepts. Louisa May Alcott conquered self-sabotage and society to provide for her entire family. Margaret Sanger nailed spot on how women’s excessive childbearing fueled the patriarchal agenda, and so she is today to be written out of history. But the power of the Feminine is the power of Life and will never be silenced.
I have also in been able to bring into print The Orient Trilogy, the rich story of the David B. Gamble Family tour in 1908 of Japan, China, and Korea—three volumes that offer personal and on-site accounts of a rapidly changing world. The reader of today can share the witnessed experiences of the Gambles in 1908 and consider from the standpoint of the Twenty-First Century what has been gained, what has been lost.
As Scriptwriter & Actor
With my solo plays, I presented the lives of powerful pioneering women, independent thinkers, who left to mothers and their daughters a legacy of political and personal empowerment.
Susan B. Anthony, once she understood the necessity for change at the political rather than the personal level, devoted her entire life and her boundless energies to giving women the vote. Despite the hatred of many conservative women, she became in her own lifetime an America hero of national and international fame.
Louisa May Alcott once wanted to be an actress. But through sheer grit, she pulled herself and her family out of poverty and debt. By her wits and unceasing labor, she supported them all, and she was the first woman to vote in the Concord School Election.
Margaret Sanger spearheaded legal contraception and a woman’s right to own her body. Seeing her own mother die of consumption at age fifty—after eighteen pregnancies—and, as a public nurse, observing the effects of yearly pregnancies on exhausted women and sickly infants, fueled her determination to make a difference in
women’s lives, to give women control over their lives as mothers.
Regarding Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger demanded that every child be a wanted child.
Margaret Sanger taught that the birth of a child was to be planned and prepared for. Contraception allowed this. Margaret Sanger never condoned, never advocated abortion. To say that she did so is a lie and has absolutely no documented evidence.
When Margaret Sanger learned that a committee of male Eugenicists were to decide who were to be parents, she severed herself from that affiliation. The mother, only the mother is to decide when and under what circumstances a child is to be born.
Margaret Sanger was buried, at her request, by the side of her black maid, Daisy. Margaret Sanger desired for all women of all color the right to choose her time for motherhood. Margaret Sanger worked to give to black women the same advantages she offered white women, the right to decide when and under what circumstances her child was to be brought into the world.
No less than Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledged the legacy of Margaret Sanger: the right of women to control their own bodies and so to be the best mothers possible, the right of all children to be loved and wanted and valued.
Review of
Louisa May Alcott:
Living “Little Women”
Living “Little Women” is a gem. Informative, entertaining, delightful, and moving, it is a must-see for fans of Louisa May Alcott and those with an interest in American history and the women who lived and shaped it.
—Rebecca Carey
Head of Voice & Text
Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Ashland, OR
SOLO PLAYS
The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
