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Those Confounding Issues I was scanning the most recent issue of MS Magazine, and was struck by the sorts of articles listed on their front cover. It was interesting to see how well their trademark issues, as it were, have been updated to meet the changing times. What used to be their battle cry, equal pay for equal work is now humane pay with access to health care. The need for abortion rights has been updated to the trauma women giving birth must face in those countries we are so busy bombing in the Middle East. And, the horrors of sexual harassment have become an outcry against the standard methods this country uses to torture its political prisoners. We are losing ground, no matter where we look. The clock is being turned back, not to a gentler age, but to an age when women had no rights, when the best that a woman could hope for was to marry a humane and caring man who had an income that would keep her and their children in relative comfort. On nearly every issue you could name, we are losing, not just the women in third world countries, but our society as a whole in this purported first world country, the U.S. These are not by any means small issues. But they all hinge on the one thing Charles Dickens identified and described so graphically in the novels he wrote over a century ago; greed. The greed of those who have more than enough, and believe they must have even more. Such people have so much money that it has lost meaning for them. They believe it is neither worth while nor sensible to care about society, as long as they can continue to dominate the planet. For such people it is neither sensible nor right to care about what happens to anyone who doe not emerge from their same social strata. This writer finds it interesting, if not downright disheartening, that the more we rail against the evils of our Patriarchal Society, the more deeply entrenched it becomes. It is as though the outline for it has been hardwired into our brains along with the genetic code that made some of us have dark skins and some of us light skins. Nearly all societies follow the same general plan, with chieftains at the top, followed by their advisors, then warriors and then the workers. And the women are always subservient to the class and families they are born and married into. Sometimes, in some societies, the system is less destructive than it is in others. But it is always there, with the same potential to become top-heavy that it has done now. The gurus and prophets who say that the only to begin to change society for the better is to work on yourself do have a point, disheartening as it may be. For until each and every one of us has learned now not to look up to the chieftains and others who are well of in our society as though they were greater than human, and down on the workers and the peasants and the homeless, as though they were less than human, we will get nowhere.
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