Editorials & Other Articles

all the progress we made through the decades of protest and hard work are being wiped out for generations to come. I'm old enough to remember when I couldn't have a bank account or a credit card in my own name. I couldn't buy a house on my own. I remember the days of Want Ads in the newspaper being divided among "male wanted" and "female wanted" ads. And, despite what my body tells me every day, I am NOT that old! I'm 70. This all happened within my working years!

And these were just a few of the physical manifestations. The work of trying to build up girls to have respect and love for themselves was still ongoing when trump came down that stupid escalator. Shame girls like TP is doing, and they think they have no alternatives but to marry the first guy to come along and ask... no matter how bad a man he make actually be. There's a reason a lot of first marriages end in divorce, especially if the couple is in their early 20's or younger.

I don't know how we make it out of this and recover. It will take more time than I have left to live... but I fear for the future of my grandniece. The world she is growing up in is one stuck in the 1940's, and earlier. When all the work of life was thrust upon their shoulders and all the shame of things going wrong was smashed into their faces. We're headed back down that road again; and it'll make us all the poorer for it, both in practicality and spiritually.