We Are the Holders to Our Future

We are the custodians of our choices, thereby making us the custodians of our consequences." This is an original of mine, which holds me accountable to the reality that whatever I say, do, act out, or not do/act/say will result in some kind of follow-on result. Sometimes we know what it is; sometimes we don't. Yet, as feminists we can choose to say that the "old" images and philosophies of the early Women's Liberation Movement are archaic, or we can embrace them in a whole new light. If we don't maintain vigilance; if we don't press for fairness, justice, egalitarianism, equal pay, workplace fairness, or gender dignity for all females worldwide, then we are choosing to go back to the dark days when women became property; when women did not get equal time or rights; when women could not decide for themselves their own paths and destinies. Being born female is not a reason that men can say we cannot serve as ministers, rabbis, priests, CEOs, leaders, heads of households, and anything else you think of. Digging in our heels doesn't imply the fashion shoe itself--it implies, Ladies, we have more work to do, and we must get about the business of defining feminism as that which emboldens and embraces the God-given dignity we share and own as women. Misogyny is a bad global infection, and the only way to cure it is to fight back against it. Our civil and human rights as women never included the permission to treat females substandardly. Nor do they grant anyone the right to harm, murder, maim or abuse women. There is much work to be done... In the spirit of those feminists before us....let's roll up our sleeves and get to it!