Dispatch #86 White Lesbian Age 68 Considers Waging & Winning the Battle for Women's Human Rights

April 1st 2021    

73 Days Since Inauguration of First Woman Vice-President

1022 Days Until the 2024 Presidential Primaries Begin 

In three years, we will see a woman running for US President.  How will the country be able to believe/see/accept that a woman can and should be the national leader? Wide-ranging and intensive public discourse and action must occur to replace old narratives with new stories that establish women as fully human, and that create and imprint a new vision for women as leaders.  

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We must always call out the camouflage created by public discourse that disguises and promotes the War on Women.  Designed as the essential enforcement tool for patriarchal misogyny, the women’s bodies are the coveted battleground for power in the US – the so-called culture wars.  In the struggle to keep their hegemony, proponents of the white supremacist patriarchy have traditionally weaponized women’s bodies and body parts.  Campaigns calling for policies to protect girls and women are always signs of danger.

The War on Women as a weapon of power is often hidden and goes unnoticed in struggles for change.  The Dark History of School is a powerful article by Diane Ravitch in New York Review of Book wherein she describes how opponents of school segregation worked to recruit allies by using abortion issue to attract the support of Christians to oppose busing. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/the-dark-history-of-school-choice/

Critical Race Theory insists that white supremacy/anti-black racism is embedded across institutions and culture; that white supremacy is not just about personal prejudice, but, is instead about a structural and societal practice that condones and rewards the degrading and dehumanizing dominion of one group over another.  

The War on Women is essential, indeed, foundational to maintaining the American white supremacist patriarchy.  We know that white supremacy cannot be uprooted without uprooting misogyny. 

Critical Gender Theory insists that misogyny is embedded across institutions and culture; that misogyny is not just about personal prejudice, but, is instead about a structural and societal practice that condones and rewards the degrading and dehumanizing dominion of men over women.

Can we change this toxic lens? Can we banish the invisible burka?