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equal rights, equality, feminism, gender pay gap, International Women's Day, mothers, politics, sisters
1973. We danced in the halls of our dormitory. We were women and we could do anything, make decisions about our bodies and our lives. The Supreme Court said so! It was going to be so great! Until it wasn’t…
2023. 80% of Afghan girls are not in school. According to the WorldBank, more women have experienced violence than Covid. One in five women worldwide are child brides. The World Economic Forum’s 2022 report says closing the gender gap between men’s and women’s earnings will take another 132 years.
Dear World:
My generation failed you. It’s your turn now. I hope you can make it a better world than what we gave you.
You’ve got this.
So close and yet so far…
[image credit: US Library of Congress, public domain]
Barb Taub 
It is so true- we tried so hard
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It all seemed so obvious then. How did we blow this?
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This is so sad. The world we’re leaving for our kids is getting worse all the time. Blessings to you, Barb.
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See that’s the thing about the American dream. We were supposed to improve things. We expected the next generations to have it better than we did. I still can’t understand how we are such an epic fail.
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Epic fail is right. Not only have we not made it better, but we’ve actively made it worse. How have we literally gone backward?
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Sigh… I can’t even talk about it. Heartbreaking.
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I feel that our mothers left us knowing they had worked to make our lives better. We failed them too.
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I couldn’t agree more, Barb.
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This is NEVER the way I wanted to have people agree with me…
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Reblogged this on Thorne Moore and commented:
Yes
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Thank you so much for the reblog Thorne.
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I know, Barb. We may have failed, but our daughters are standing on our shoulders – let’s hope they can reach farther than we did.
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It’s true. Our daughters are awesome! I just wish they didn’t have to make up the ground we lost…
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They are smarter than us. I just hope our sons are also in the fight to make up for the rug that was pulled off our feet
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Sadly, such a long way to go. And especially frustrating in the twenty first century.
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Thanks, Mick. We were supposed to have flying cars, equal pay, and a seat at all the big tables. Somehow Wordle and AI chatbots don’t seem like a fair enough exchange…
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A very poor substitute. I wrote a post for International Women’s Day when I first started blogging expressing my opinion it was disgraceful that by now things should still be how they are. I’ve reblogged it once and feel I could keep doing so every year, for nothing changes. At least, not for the better.
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We didn’t blow it – the men who rule us formed an impenetrable wall. Gotta change the wall.
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From your lips to god(dess)’s ear!
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🙂 🙂
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You stole the words from my mouth, Noelle! The Afghan women had made it to unimaginable heights – then the men with their mantras and weapons dragged them down. Those women haven’t given up, but it’s hard to see a way through bigotry to support them.
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Amen. I was writing CngressMEN about the treatment of the Afghan women by the men before the Afghan war. Things haven’t changed.
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Louder voices of both sexes are needed for change. Hope remains firm.
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Perhaps Joy holds the answer – get the men onside.
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We tried, we made a difference and things have fallen back a bit, Barb, but we’re still much more free than our mothers were in the 1950s. We need to teach our sons and daughters to respect each other. 🙂
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