[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat a day Saturday was! Women, men and children across the nation and across the globe marched, joining arms with others, in support of women’s rights and the freedom to speak out.
White, black, brown. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist. It was a melting pot of people.
Of course, there was the online – as always – backlash, on Facebook about women “whining.”
One of my own family members, though I devoutly disagree with her, posted a pretty mean-spirited retort that women should quit whining.
Well, whining was not the order of the day. Instead, groups of people gathered, made new friends, smiled, laughed, danced, marched, walked for miles and let the new President Trump and his staff know that the freedoms women now have in the United States will not be taken away.
Women here can vote. Check.
Women here can work or stay home. Check.
Women here have access to birth control. Check – for now.
Women here have access to abortions. Check, if you can afford it.
Women here run for office, are members of Congress, the Supreme Court. They own their own businesses, their own homes and control their own financial future.
These are the freedoms worth marching for, walking for.
These women also marched in solidarity with women from around the globe. All of them together brought light to the fact that women in other countries do not have the right to march. Heck, they are not allowed to drive, get an education, vote, protect themselves, choose their spouse. They can be tortured, sold as a sex slave, given HIV by spouses and then left without help or hope.
American and first world country women have freedoms that some women in other countries cannot even imagine.
No, this is not a whine.
It is a celebration. And all women are included.
Even the ones who feel they must post derogatory statements online.
Because it’s always easier to just copy and paste a mean statement than to face someone else, talk through issues, agree on some, agree to disagree on others, and become friends.
