tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17080558.post3569557940401051926..comments2024-03-20T03:54:53.101-05:00Comments on SpaceBeagle: Empowering WomenToddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05817043549668896479noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17080558.post-51349367499128427832007-05-01T11:13:00.000-05:002007-05-01T11:13:00.000-05:00This isn't new. The thing is that we won't reach ...This isn't new. The thing is that we won't reach true equality until we stop turning on each other. Women are the toughest on other women. If a woman is working inside the home, raising a family and such they are looked down on by career women. If a woman has a career and choses not to have children they are looked down on as having some sort of defect. If a woman decides to try and have it all, she is looked down on if she needs help at all. This is all by other women. That has nothing to do with what we allow men to do to us by our own words and actions.<BR/><BR/>It is the same across all minorities. Until we all stop trying to break each other down, nothing will change.<BR/><BR/>I listened to a story on the local news a few days ago about a <I>police officer</I> who was convicted of sexual assault. He was accused of forcing a prostitute to perform oral sex on him or go to jail. He could have faced up to 50 years in prison. He was given 5 years probation. A <I>woman</I> wrote into the news that she thought this sentence was perfectly acceptable because he was a fine upstanding citizen who was a good husband, father, and brother. Now, to be fair, just using those three words (specifically "brother) says to me it was probably a member of his family who wrote it. How, though, by any stretch of the imagination could anybody ever say that he is a fine upstanding citizen. Remind me to tell my husband that it is never acceptable to do this even if he is a good husband.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, until women stop making this kind of treatment of other women acceptable, we will never change men.<BR/><BR/>Holstein GirlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com