This Landers resident is old school. Be it music, movies, television, baseball or
politics, the modern way seems divorced from reason and community. This attitude places me in conflict with
modernism, a conflict I try to ignore but it has a way of trying to force change
upon we old school folk. Music is a case
in point. In the 60’s one fun dance
craze after another lite a fire. One
such craze was the mashed potatoes with ridiculous dance moves I never
learned. Fifty years later Dee Dee Sharp
and Sister Act turned this tune into a craze for the gravy in life. The gimme, gimme, gimme lyrics are now about
getting all you can regardless of the cost to your own future and the future of
others.
The valid women’s movement of fifty years ago similarly has
degenerated into a gimme cubbyhole. Today,
the women’s movement is telling us that women are all about the right of the
individual to dispose of any new life in the womb. Please leave God out of the discussion or the
legal abdication of the last fifty years, some of us believe that such an
action is a sin against ourselves as human beings. Which one of us has the right to determine
who should live and who should die?
Which one of us is qualified to make that scary judgement? Is an unintended pregnancy an automatic
permission slip? Forrest Gump lived by the
wisdom of his mother, “life is like a box of chocolates', you never know what
your going to get”. None of us knows how
our children will cope with life but it would seem that picking and choosing
before birth is an animal decision that should be reserved for the farm yard.
The progressive left has largely captured the Women’s
Movement because these political radicals value the movement only as another gimme
voter block they can manipulate to advance their un-American agenda. There are no rules or laws that the radical left
respects, no agreed upon outcome to be honored, they respect only brute political
power that translates into sneaky power over all the people. The radicals within the Women’s Movement enforce
this activism by bulling and threatening all who dissent from within
and outside their ranks. They would like
to kill to advance their cause but whom they can’t kill, they
will punish with slander and threats against family and careers.
The radical left has given the Women’s Movement a bad name,
spoiling their proud history. The degrading
of the movement is best exposed by their T shirt advertising, which ought to
read, if the truth be told, “Nasty Girls”.
They are not women but nasty
girls. This is the sad news of the Women’s
Movement but some of us believe that women are not a monolith, while the
radicals are screaming on the corner, those women who want a reasoned approach to
the life decision have been intimidated into silence. Some women would like to stand for greater
opportunity for themselves and their children but feel no need to trash their
birthright. This would be the good news
about the Women’s Movement that the radicals are desperate to hide.
A pregnancy is an opportunity for both men and women to set their
personal agenda on the back burner and contribute to the future of family, even
our greater family. Old school, you bet!
Is the measure of a woman all about the
right to destroy life? Are women one
issue thinkers as the girls on the corner want us to believe? Stay tuned Yucca Valley, we shall find out
soon?
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
