Patricia Therrell: Issue not just abortion, but women’s rights
Published 1:30 am Saturday, July 16, 2022
By Patricia Therrell / Herald Forum
I just read in the local Edmonds newspaper of the Edmonds City Council’s pushing up an agenda item so that they could unanimously vote for abortion rights in this state, (encouraged by a speaker dressed as a hand maiden).
I am seriously concerned about sharing my ideas with council members.They have made it abundantly clear that their opinions are the only ones that count, even on issues that don’t really pertain to city councils.
So I turn to Herald readers as possibly a less-biased entity, hoping my divergent thoughts might be heard. I come at this subject as a fervent believer in women’s rights. The fight 40 years ago was a desperate plea to men and women to treat women equally. I know because I was a part of it. Women wanted equal pay, which we still do not have. We wanted help managing careers and children, which we have not accomplished. Why has this not happened? Because not all, but most men don’t really want it.
In the last 40 years science has accomplished every conceivable way to keep women from getting pregnant. However, scientists have not been able to create a birth control pill that men take. I’m not that kind of scientist. My doctorate is in psychology, but even I can figure out that not enough attention has been spent on that endeavor.
Men don’t want to take pills before or after sex. Men don’t want uncomfortable implants. Yuk! Men still want to experience sex naked (all those of you having sex will understand this term) Why? Because it feels better to them. And lastly the big one: abortion.
Why should men care if women abort pregnancies? They don’t. They have all the fun and no responsibility. It’s a win-win. Women need to be protesting in the streets and wearing hand maiden costumes to sway already prejudice city councils, state legislators and our national government; demanding equal pay and measures of birth control for men.
To continue the way we have been the last 40 years simply continues to benefit men with all the power, all the fun, and none of the responsibility.
Women still raise babies, but we also get to work as well. Yea! Moreover, has anyone else noticed how professional men in government still wear the same suits and ties they wore in the 1950s, but working women wear short tight skirts and blouses with cleavage. Is this uncomfortable attire by women for other women or for men?
I don’t even have words to express my horror at the anti-feminist language used on social medias disrespecting women. The v-word and the c-word come to mind. And much of the time women are as responsible as men.
Dr. Patricia Therrell, a retired educator and novelist, lives in Edmonds.
