We Are The Women Men Warned Us

I Do Believe Deeply That All Human Beings, Male And Female, Are Sexual Beings, Most Likely Bisexual Beings Channeled This Way And That By Cultures Terrified Of Boundary Crossings Without Passports Stamped Gay Or Straight.

Children, Together With Women, Constitute 90 Percent Of All Refugee Populations On The Planet As Well As The Vast Majority Of Those Living In Absolute Poverty: The 'feminization Of Poverty' Means That Children Are Poor, Too, Since Most Parenting Is Done By Mothers.

Women Are Not Inherently Passive Or Peaceful. We're Not Inherently Anything But Human.

Although Every Organized Religion Works Overtime To Contribute Its Own Brand Of Misogyny To The Myth Of Woman-hate, Woman-fear, And Woman-evil, The Roman Catholic Church Also Carries The Immense Power Of Very Directly Affecting Women's Lives Everywhere By Its Stand Against Birth Control And Abortion, And By Its Use Of Skillful And Wealthy Lobbies To Prevent Legislative Change. It Is An Obscenity-an All-male Hierarchy, Celibate Or Not, That Presumes To Rule On The Lives And Bodies Of Millions Of Women.

Guilt Politics ... I Regard As Conveniently Paralyzing, Ripe For Backlash Defensiveness, Counterproductive, And Boring.