A Beautiful Dance

I write in a duel response to my previous posts (where I addressed my views on Abortion as well as a few topics concerning gender and cross gender studies), and to an assigned reading for my English class about Sojourner Truth.

Women's rights have been an issue in this country since before the Declaration of Independence was written. We have come a long way from the darker days of slavery and the oppression of woman. Because of the cumulative actions of many outspoken people we now live in a nation without blatant, legal, slavery that possesses equal rights for the vast majority of all races and genders. Women now have their rightful standing in society with an even footing and a solid platform to assert their strong opinions and be heard around the world.

Sojourner Truth was traveling the country, speaking out against slavery and woman rights; both with equal vigor and validity. The country was on the eve of civil war and people with "different" pigmented skin were being treated worse than crap stuck to the bottom of ones shoe; you give some consideration and thought to the offal while scraping it off. Woman were treated similarly, albeit in a slightly more civil and humane way. With no rights to speak of and nothing to stop a man beating his wife, a woman could not under law give vent to her bound up thoughts and ideas and was unable to contribute her full tempered persona to society.

There is a reason that humans come in two sexes. With man and woman there is formed a beautiful balance, a dance per-say, with both genders contributing equally and diversely. In this dance both the man and women have assorted roles dependent on mental and physical build. Nether role is intrinsically attributed with superior value and neither role is more dominating. We have come closer to this ideal since the time of Sojourner Truth. We now must decide to either continue this fantastic dance that is necessary for a moral based society, or drift away without genders, without the distinguishing foundation of man and woman.