The wonderful writer Amy Tan has posted this statement. I think it's a great way to start the conversation about Women awakening to the WAR happening right now.
The WAR I'm talking about is being waged over our bodies and our rights to control them.
Many politicians and business leaders have decided to a woman's right to choose, whatever she may choose.
So I've decided to set up base here and send out lots of eye opening information.
We need to keep informed and speak up for our selves.
So many women have fought tirelessly for the freedoms that we already take for granted.
So here are the
Stories and Voices of Women From The Field.
"To those who criticize my perversion of the GOP candidates' names,
please know that name-calling is not my usual standard of response.
Nor do I normally use expletives. But I make exceptions. Never in my
lifetime have I seen such a line-up of candidates who want to pervert
the lives of women, who want to f**k them over every which way they
can think of. These perverts are men, and variously they are telling
us that single women should not have sex, should not use
contraceptives, should consider a baby conceived from a rape to be a
blessing, and to leave all matters concerning their uterus to them.
They say that contraceptives for women make it too easy for them to
"do things." They do not offer the same opinions on men and their
tendencies to "do things." Their rhetoric makes it sound like women
are wanton spirits who must be controlled. I am a writer because I
have strong opinions. Those opinions on women's rights come from my
grandmother, who was raped, and my mother, who was raped at gunpoint
by her husband, and who was jailed when she ran away from him. My
mother told me as a child and a grownup, that no one should ever tell
me whether I should have a baby. How could I be any other kind of
writer, any other kind of person? How could I not protest the
perversion of women's rights espoused by these candidates? The twisted
names I give them may sound "hurtful" --as name-calling is. But the
hurt they would give us would not be temporary slights, but permanent
scars. This country is not divided because of Obama. It has been
divided for a long time by the Republican Right who vote down the line
on personal moral beliefs. They are out of touch with the the actual
governance of this country and its relation to the larger world.
*Would these candidates cut off relations with China until China
abolishes the one-child policy? I was born the daughter of a Baptist
minister. I know how intractable religious beliefs are supposed to be,
how by faith, you must carry those beliefs into the world, into all
walks of life, without compromise, without listening to any other
opinions. By that faith, you save who you can and smite who you can't.
To these GOP candidates who want to rule government by the divine
guidance of their cocks, study the pages of history on the Inquisition
and the Holocaust, and keep your hands off me, my nieces, my sisters,
my women friends, their daughters and their daughters to come."
Amy Tan is an American writer who has written such well know works as the Joy Luck Club, and The Kitchen God's Wife, as well as many others.
Use your Voice
Call The Government and tell them "keep your hands off
me, my nieces, my sisters,
my women friends, their daughters and their daughters to come."
