What Do I Stand For?

I stand for the idea that women can pee standing up...if they really wanted to.

I stand for the hope that women will eventually be paid the same as men.

I stand for the reality that women are equal to men.

I stand for the little girl, the mother of five, the business lady down the street...I stand for my gender: WOMEN!

The equal rights movement is an important part of every woman’s life, I believe. And in that same statement, perhaps I should include to every male’s life as well. If it were not for equal rights then perhaps women would be struggling harder than they do today to be seen as equal to men. Would a husband want his wife to be seen as “beneath” him? Would a father want his daughter or granddaughters to be treated with disrespect? I would hope not.

Now I may seem somewhat scattered in my thoughts, but honestly, I stand for the girl, woman, young lady, whomever, that is going to take a stand for her gender. It does not mean that she has to be a full-fledged feminist willing to risk her life. It requires very little effort and may only be recognized from time to time. Perhaps it is in a classroom when all the immature, want-to-show-off-for-their-friends-boys say that no girl can be equal. My thoughts on this: STAND UP! TAKE ACTION! DO NOT let some immature preteen take away what our grandmothers, mothers, aunts, neighbors, teachers, etc... have given to us.

I know that today, tomorrow, the day after, the day after that, the day after that day, etc, etc, etc... I will be the young woman who will not be trampled on because of my gender. Nobody, male or female, should be! Why does it matter if someone is born with breasts or...-ahem-other body parts if we can all “get the job done.” Perhaps men should see it as a challenge, embrace it. A man should work harder for his job if he believes the woman sitting next to him may do a better job. And that does not mean that a woman should not have to work as hard...she should work harder too!

You see if we all worked to be equal to or better than the people around us then perhaps, well maybe, we could live in a society that is full of ambitious, uncharacteristically hard workers who are willing to go above any other society. You see? If women were always seen as equal, at every job, in every school, then as a country we could become even more united and powerful.

So I guess that leads me to stand for WOMEN, MEN, and OUR SOCIETY.