Women’s Emancipation

This is an article about women’s emancipation; a strong and perhaps outdated theme. I believe it is wanting of a rewrite, a look back there. Since Women’s Day is coming up and I am about to leave on a trip, I am sending it like an original written a century ago. Rsssss. Man! I feel like I’m two hundred years old when I talk like this. But here we go: let’s get things rolling in the new century, to not say new millennium, which isn’t all that new anyway.

It is an adolescent millennium, foolhardy, following the masses, dying in holocaust in pursuit of pleasure, in the war on traffic, in drug traffic, in the parading anorexic traffic, mixing up the sexes…

Damn!!!! That’s a good start for this next article. They’re already asking me to hand it down.

I hope you like it; after all, women’s situation hasn’t changed much in all this time.

                                   “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”

(Luke 23;34)

Never has such a poorly understood issue occupied so much space in the world than women’s emancipation. No one was indifferent to the movement: men, women, youths and even children are all either in favor of or against it. All argue or fight, tooth and nail, over women’s rights. But what are these rights? It is unfortunate the misrepresentations of such an urgent and serious issue. It is no wonder that women, in the name of an apparent and false freedom, have been increasingly made into slaves, dragging men and the whole world down with them into slavery.

The “whistle blowers,” so to speak, are often the numbest minded of concerned citizens. Fierce sexists and feminists alike, poster and stone in hand, do not even know of the movement’s origin. They do not know nor do they wish to know that:

– God, in creating the world, created man in his image and likeness. He created man and woman for love and out of love. Both with equal rights (all rights, without exception), different, however, in body and spirit; with functions, charms and enchantments of their own to attract each other, to love each other, to get along, and to join and be complete with one another.

– That the emancipation of women emerged in the advent of World War II, in the imposition of the moment; the man to destroy, to kill and to die on the battlefield. The helpless woman, alone with the elderly and the children. She had to tough it out. She had to juggle the household chores, to cultivate the fields, and give eating to those who would die of hunger. She had to rebuild the shattered pillar of her home. She had to educate herself in order to educate, alone, the sons of men. She had to take decisive roles in the factories for the industrialization of society.

– That the Feminist Movement emerged from oppression; women being paid, for the same work, a salary inferior to that of men; the pregnant woman discharged without any consideration; promotions granted to not the most competent, but those who submitted to and were approved in the sofa test, that is, those who gave in and pleased the boss in bed.

– That the first feminists demanded fair wages, decent working conditions, child care for their children, the right to education and participation in the destiny of mankind.

– That the International Women’s Day was established to honor the 129 women mercilessly burned alive for going on strike, trapped in the factory barn where they were rebuilding men and the world.

It hurts to see such a noble cause go on being distorted to the point of creating the chaos in which we live. The war of the sexes is more disturbing that nuclear war. For the latter is, perhaps, the consequence of the former. The battle of the sexes is author to the major interior and exterior conflicts; of the major emotional and affective disorders, of misconduct, of the reversal of roles and moral and spiritual values. The battle of the sexes is directly responsible for dramatically increasing the number of single mothers (most of them still children themselves practically, accidental mothers), of abandoned children, juvenile delinquents, the widespread use of abortion and drugs, such as alcohol, psychotropic drugs and sex.

It is urgent that man and woman hold hands together, to raise the banner of peace, for a man without a woman is the seed blown out of the earth. And a woman without a man is a rose blown leafless in the wind. And what is a bare seed? What are petals rolling across the ground?