The Case for Women
Women are intelligent, wise, intuitive, productive, and the birth vehicle for the human race. The world and it’s people would not exist without mothers. Women have been continually put in the category of second position behind men throughout history. Only in countries that are well educated do women have some respect and the opportunity they deserve to excel and be an equal in the work place. Even there, there are great disparities in equality for women.
Women have to suffer abuse, neglect, and an imprisoned life far too often even today. There are groups and societies that like to keep women down. Some Muslim countries do horrendous things to their women. They treat them like a possession and an object by making them wear burkas and hide their faces from society. They make them have to be in harems and kill them or imprison them if they try to express freedom in any way. Polygamy and harems treat women as sex objects and baby machines without the basic human rights that should be afforded to all human beings.
The United States is not much better than Muslim countries in the way they treat many of the women. Instead of hiding them by covering them up so other men won't lust after them, they turn women into sex objects in the U.S. and exploit their sexuality. The supposed "Ideal" woman is one that is modeled after "Barbie" which many of the little girls play with. She has big breasts, a tiny waist and and very long legs. Women in America think they need to model themselves after this image and go to all sorts of extremes to stay young and look sexy. They spend fortunes on facelifts, tummy tucks, breast implants and all sorts of other plastic surgeries to try to fit the perfect image of the "Beautiful American Woman". Many women buy in to it. Some blatantly refuse, and other's that can't relate to that image become athletic and masculine because they like that image better. Women every where need to rethink their image. What do they really want to represent to the world? Yes, they are a woman. Yes, they can procreate children. Yes, they are beautiful but beauty comes in many shapes, sizes, and personalities. There is something very wrong with the "Beautiful Image" that is forced on women in the U.S. today. A woman's image should be determined by each individual woman.
Another way women agree to be second class citizens to men is when they change their name when they change their marital status. This in a way forces women to lose their own identity and have to become the appendage of a man through the name change. Many Native American Tribes used to pass the name down through the women. This makes more sense because the woman is the one that has given a new child life through her life's blood and her womb. If a man had to change his name to a woman's when he became married I wonder how long that tradition or law would last?. Women should maintain their own identity. If they choose to add the man's name they should also keep their own or even create a new name that feels good or right to them. This way they can maintain their own identity.
The United States is not much better than Muslim countries in the way they treat many of the women. Instead of hiding them by covering them up so other men won't lust after them, they turn women into sex objects in the U.S. and exploit their sexuality. The supposed "Ideal" woman is one that is modeled after "Barbie" which many of the little girls play with. She has big breasts, a tiny waist and and very long legs. Women in America think they need to model themselves after this image and go to all sorts of extremes to stay young and look sexy. They spend fortunes on facelifts, tummy tucks, breast implants and all sorts of other plastic surgeries to try to fit the perfect image of the "Beautiful American Woman". Many women buy in to it. Some blatantly refuse, and other's that can't relate to that image become athletic and masculine because they like that image better. Women every where need to rethink their image. What do they really want to represent to the world? Yes, they are a woman. Yes, they can procreate children. Yes, they are beautiful but beauty comes in many shapes, sizes, and personalities. There is something very wrong with the "Beautiful Image" that is forced on women in the U.S. today. A woman's image should be determined by each individual woman.
Another way women agree to be second class citizens to men is when they change their name when they change their marital status. This in a way forces women to lose their own identity and have to become the appendage of a man through the name change. Many Native American Tribes used to pass the name down through the women. This makes more sense because the woman is the one that has given a new child life through her life's blood and her womb. If a man had to change his name to a woman's when he became married I wonder how long that tradition or law would last?. Women should maintain their own identity. If they choose to add the man's name they should also keep their own or even create a new name that feels good or right to them. This way they can maintain their own identity.
The only way oppression, discrimination, and forcing women to be subservient baby machines will stop, is if women refuse to participate. They can help stop it by organizing and taking action against the cruelty and subservience that men have bullied them into for so long. Women must use their intelligence to figure out a way to enjoy true freedom from oppressive and inhumane circumstances. Other women in positions of freedom and opportunity need to help those oppressed women in any way they can.
A book I was reading recently was about a woman in a polygamist cult in Colorado City in the United States, who dared to defy the “Prophet” by secretly fleeing from the society. She had to go in to hiding so they wouldn’t find her and kidnap her and make her go back to the cult where she would be shunned and punished by other’s in the cult. It is hard to believe that these things go on today but they do. The book explained how they systematically brainwash the children in the society through their schools and doctrines. If the members in the cult ask any questions they are chastised with the threat that they are “apostates” which in their societies’ teachings is defying and rebelling against God. They keep the women, down by marrying them off to old men in arranged marriages, and keeping them pregnant and in fear from a young age. They don’t allow them to watch TV or read books that aren’t approved by the society. They teach them that the outside world is corrupt and evil and that they shouldn’t have any part of it. They keep their families in hiding and imprisoned so they won’t learn about the world outside their cult.
Throughout history men have contrived a God or (Allah) in their own image so that they can do whatever they want to do and then claim God told them to do it. They don’t create man in God’s image but God in man’s image. It’s frightening to see how they can manipulate things so they can be perfectly justified in their immoral and cruel behaviors against women. The saddest part of this is that women have such little self esteem after being treated like a heard of cattle for so long, that they allow it and refuse to stand up against it. There is something seriously wrong with this picture. Women are so used to being abused that they don’t understand that they could actually have something better in their lives.
The more education and freedom women can experience, the more powerful and fulfilling their lives will be. They must strip off the masks of oppression and do what ever they can to assert themselves as equals demanding equality in every aspect of their lives. Recently I viewed an educational biography about a woman, Martha Hughes Cannon, who grew up in an early Utah Mormon colony. She was very intelligent and was one of the first women to be accepted into medical school and become a doctor. She somehow bought into the idea that polygamy was an inspired revelation and that she would receive a higher degree of glory in the next life if she became the wife of a polygamist. She had a very unsatisfying relationship with her husband who had four other wives and she rarely saw him. She had to give up her practice twice and flee to England and San Francisco because her husband would be prosecuted for polygamy and thrown in jail if they could prove that he fathered her children under polygamy. It’s hard to believe that intelligent women would actually buy into and accept polygamy which innately makes them second class citizens and subservient to men. Polygamy is definitely not an inspired revelation. It is a way to satisfy a man’s lust and get away with it because the man says God told him it was a way to become like God. Under that reasoning and assumption god would actually be a male chauvinist pig like they are. I would not be able to worship a god like that. It is a god made up by men.
Recently women have come out on reality shows trying to shed light on polygamy and make it a perfectly acceptable way to live and suggest that the women living under it are “happy”. In watching a few episodes I found them far from happy. The man seemed like an immature child that they all doted on and encouraged his immoral actions. I think it is partly because they don’t have good enough self esteem to believe they could have their very own husband. The commandment that states “Thou shalt not commit adultery” though they try to justify and say it doesn’t apply to them, does apply to them. Their adulterous and immoral ways are a sin. They need to quit trying to justify their sinful ways by saying God told them it was alright.
There are so many confused women today who put up with far more than they should in the workplace and in their homes. It’s time for women to demand their rightful equal place in society and rise up and get out of any cult, religion, or organization that keeps them down. Women are bright, and can offer a lot to the world and need the opportunity to do so in whatever walk of life they wish.
