We Are Women, Deserving Too.
Michele Bachmann's latest antics, denouncing the construction of a national women's museum, hurt me to my very core. In many ways I fashion myself after Gloria Steinem (and a professor-friend from Grad School), I spend much of my life's work focusing and writing about women, and little shreds me more than when a so-called educated woman and elected representative fails us. Fails us to our very core.
Michele Bachmann, as I will never call you Representative,
Do you realize that you are in a position of power, in Congress itself, because of women like Margret Sanger, Gloria Steinem, and Kate Richards O'Hare you are permitted to speak in public, obtain an education, choose who to marry, wear pants, and--well--make a debauchery of the American public?
Margret Sanger, the long known proponent of Planned Parenthood, sought to improve the quality of family life and (especially) the poor/working class strapped family. Yes, she was a racist. But, she promoted education and choice. Planned Parenthood, my dear, means just that. It doesn't encourage abortions. Instead, it reminds and teaches women that there are scores of ways to stave off babies, there are options if you do get pregnant, and it provides tools to do everything from breastfeed to raise those children.
Gloria Steinem became a well known voice of women's activism, demanding of equal rights, and by default became the defacto face of Women's Lib. Feminists born after her, like myself, still read and educate coming generations about her vision, writings, and activism. You most certainly would not be defaming the hall of Congress, making collective blood pressures rise, and dishonoring yourself without women like her. Her works pretty much go without saying. My own scholarship reflects her, as does my basic everyday appearance in higher education.
Kate Richard's O'Hare spoke up and out. She protested the sending of troops to a foreign war when, by and large, it was unpopular to do so. Later, after being imprisoned for such opinions, she advocated for prison reform. O'Hare, and her use of speech, allows people like you--Ms. Bachmann--to denounce a museum educating and showcasing the women of this country and society.
You state that this museum will promote abortion? Why? Because a woman spearheaded Planned Parenthood? Well, my dear, then under that mindset we need to dismantle the National Science Museum. Why? A man invented the tampon. Yes, a man invented that contraption that by and large allows women to worry less about their periods. Goodness, image if that knowledge was perpetuated inside a national museum? What about the coat-hanger? Thomas Jefferson and a man from Connecticut created versions of what became the modern coat-hanger. The CT man . . . well, he did the wire coat-hanger, and holy smokes batman that coat-hanger needs to be taken out of a museum because a coat-hanger goes hand in hand with abortion. Yes, a movement to bring aide and voice to the need and cause for abortions uses a coat-hanger as its symbol, as if you didn't know coat-hangers were (and still are) used in illegal and back-ally abortions.
Ms. Bachmann, your pedantic actions on the House floor are astounding, embarrassing, and truly show you have little grasp of social need or education. Denouncing a bill that allows for the development of a national museum to showcase women in their own right, verses as secondary features within the primary displays of men, is not only a stab to your own sex but a stab your nation. You, have by this action, said that women should not be equal, that our 77 cents to a man's one dollar is more than acceptable, that the actions of one women will forever scorn and discolor us, and that--yes my dear--an unforgiving whole should judge and regulate the so-called lower classes and minds of our society.
I no longer hope for you. Now, now, I hope, pray, and educate that women will surpass blunders like you on our public face. Being conservative is one thing. Being radical, close-minded, reactionary, and sexists is another.
Dr. Babic
Michele Bachmann, as I will never call you Representative,
Do you realize that you are in a position of power, in Congress itself, because of women like Margret Sanger, Gloria Steinem, and Kate Richards O'Hare you are permitted to speak in public, obtain an education, choose who to marry, wear pants, and--well--make a debauchery of the American public?
Margret Sanger, the long known proponent of Planned Parenthood, sought to improve the quality of family life and (especially) the poor/working class strapped family. Yes, she was a racist. But, she promoted education and choice. Planned Parenthood, my dear, means just that. It doesn't encourage abortions. Instead, it reminds and teaches women that there are scores of ways to stave off babies, there are options if you do get pregnant, and it provides tools to do everything from breastfeed to raise those children.
Gloria Steinem became a well known voice of women's activism, demanding of equal rights, and by default became the defacto face of Women's Lib. Feminists born after her, like myself, still read and educate coming generations about her vision, writings, and activism. You most certainly would not be defaming the hall of Congress, making collective blood pressures rise, and dishonoring yourself without women like her. Her works pretty much go without saying. My own scholarship reflects her, as does my basic everyday appearance in higher education.
Kate Richard's O'Hare spoke up and out. She protested the sending of troops to a foreign war when, by and large, it was unpopular to do so. Later, after being imprisoned for such opinions, she advocated for prison reform. O'Hare, and her use of speech, allows people like you--Ms. Bachmann--to denounce a museum educating and showcasing the women of this country and society.
You state that this museum will promote abortion? Why? Because a woman spearheaded Planned Parenthood? Well, my dear, then under that mindset we need to dismantle the National Science Museum. Why? A man invented the tampon. Yes, a man invented that contraption that by and large allows women to worry less about their periods. Goodness, image if that knowledge was perpetuated inside a national museum? What about the coat-hanger? Thomas Jefferson and a man from Connecticut created versions of what became the modern coat-hanger. The CT man . . . well, he did the wire coat-hanger, and holy smokes batman that coat-hanger needs to be taken out of a museum because a coat-hanger goes hand in hand with abortion. Yes, a movement to bring aide and voice to the need and cause for abortions uses a coat-hanger as its symbol, as if you didn't know coat-hangers were (and still are) used in illegal and back-ally abortions.
Ms. Bachmann, your pedantic actions on the House floor are astounding, embarrassing, and truly show you have little grasp of social need or education. Denouncing a bill that allows for the development of a national museum to showcase women in their own right, verses as secondary features within the primary displays of men, is not only a stab to your own sex but a stab your nation. You, have by this action, said that women should not be equal, that our 77 cents to a man's one dollar is more than acceptable, that the actions of one women will forever scorn and discolor us, and that--yes my dear--an unforgiving whole should judge and regulate the so-called lower classes and minds of our society.
I no longer hope for you. Now, now, I hope, pray, and educate that women will surpass blunders like you on our public face. Being conservative is one thing. Being radical, close-minded, reactionary, and sexists is another.
Dr. Babic
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