A reblog of a reblog.
A long post but really worth the read.
It started with a Hashtag.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, the tributary streams of our modern world flowing into the big river of awareness. Then the conventional media outlets caught on and before we knew it, the Weinstein dam broke and it was Land Under in Hollywood.
I’ll admit, my brain went into ‘white noise’ mode after the first few hundred Tweets. It seemed yet another sad, frustrating déjà vu moment in history – I’ve already seen this, and not once but twice, three times … it’s like we’re forming a brave bucket brigade on the Titanic, shouting encouragement to each other while that sad, lonely SOS echoes over the frozen Atlantic. If anybody out there really gave a damn, wouldn’t they have answered by now?
So, I was resigned to have another talk with my teenage girls about why life isn’t fair,
about politics and the legal system, and that there…
View original post 2,960 more words
Thanks for sharing. I doubt that there is a woman on this earth who hasn’t had to fight their way out of or run like the wind from a situation that would have ended in a ‘fate worse than death’. And thanks too for the decent men in this world who make life worth living.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Sad to say, I think there is still an awfully long way to go. There are still way too many men who see women as objects rather than as equals who deserve respect.
LikeLiked by 1 person