Reparations for Blacks

We can all play the victim card.  Here's what pisses me off about the proposed reparations for blacks.  To this day the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) has not been ratified to ensure equal rights to all regardless of sex.  Let's see who deserves reparations.

1.  Women were not allowed the right to vote until the 1920's.

2.  Women's income was not considered in purchasing large assets, i.e., a house until the late twentieth century.

3.  Women make less than men do for the same job.

4.  Women were not allowed to inherit property.

5.  Women were denied jobs with power - and still are.  Look around any Fortune 500 company board room.  The vast majority are male.

6.  Countless women are abandoned by the men they married and/or fathered their children and don't pay court ordered child support. 

7.  The most dangerous place for a woman to be is in her home.  There is no shortage of domestic abuse cases done by the men who "loved" their wife/girlfriend.  Most murders of women are committed by men they know.  I have not even touched on rape and incest.  Can we talk about sexual improprieties and the #metoo movement?  I'm going to state that 85% of women have been subject to sexual improprieties, aggression, exploitation, etc., etc., etc......  However, the government is still arguing about what happens inside our uterus.  

8.  Women were considered "property" until fairly recently.

I could go on and on.  If anybody deserves "reparations" it's women who suffered generational and systematic disadvantages - and continue to do so to this day.  Where's OUR money????????

Sexual Abuse

Sexual abuse and incest is more rampant than we could ever imagine.  The problem is that the perpetrators (usually parents and other adult relatives) are so messed up in the head they don't even REALIZE what they're doing is wrong. Thus, the cycle continues until one kid has the courage to face the formidable force of the dysfunctional family dynamics.

The kid who finally speaks up is often told that it's not really happening, and that Uncle Ted is just a "touchy-feely" kind of guy.  Uncle Ted LOVES you, that's why he wants to be around you all the time and be close.  Look at all the presents and trips Uncle Ted has bought you, and he also shows up to all your dance recitals.  Uncle Ted picks you up from school and takes care of you when you're sick. 

Wow.... what a mind ***k for the kid.  

If confronted, Uncle Ted's parents go into such deep denial they will turn against the child victim rather than face the ugly truth their offspring is a child molester.  They could not possibly imaging something so hideous happening right under their nose.  They want to believe they have the perfect family.  Child victims are told to be silent as something so ghastly would tarnish the family.

Men are not alone in committing heinous acts against kids.  I've witnessed first hand where a female relative was just as capable of child molestation as a man.  The abuse is not just physical, either.  An obsession of pornography and sex toys visible to impressionable minds depicts an unrealistic sex life and unrealistic (sometimes sick, sadistic and violent) situations that warp fragile, developing teen minds and causes insecurities and fear in their own sexual development.  Girls are left thinking that all men want the perfect centerfold.  Boys are left thinking they must be a freak of anatomy. 

Sex is a very fragile thing.  It conjures up our most primal emotions.  Sex can be either a symbol of power and control, or it can be the ultimate expression of love.  Hoping love wins.