BETTER LATE THEN NEVER: WHY NATIONAL WOMEN’S MONTH!

Women! Ha! What are they good for? Ha! ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! For starters, how did you come into existence? Is she not the gateway between the eternal cosmic realms of potential and our temporarily human form:  A manifestation of life to walk, explore, discover, develop, exploit, and eventually fade back into the annals from where we came?  

Whoa-Man! More than a walking condom, she’s gone where most men have yet to go. Liberated from the status of being regarded as a second-rate citizen and undomesticated to be more than a pair of slippers laboring in the kitchen – She’s gone from making babies and scrambling breakfast eggs to rattling man’s brain to near insane. She’s gone from burning bras to igniting rockets that have taken astronauts into space and back (regardless of discrimination, three black women made Armstrong’s first flight into the wild blue yonder possible). In fact, more than a cartoon Super Girl and Wonder Woman, she’s taken the ride into the stars herself (Russia, 1963, Vostok 6 mission, 1st, and only solo woman cosmonaut while in the USA, 1993, Discovery shuttle, 1st Latina into space to return and become director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center).

Not only do women recycle life on this planet, but Greek history also shows how they trigger men into the war (Helen of Troy). From indigenous tribes (Arawak’s) of the Amazon, “Caribe Headhunters” chased “Taino women” down river onto the Atlantic Ocean – thus populating the Caribbean islands. From the desert sands of the Old Testament to the prison bars of today, “Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Wife” is a thriving virus in man’s DNA.

So, what of a woman’s DNA? No longer just teachers, librarians, nurses, and other servant positions; For sure they rival, even threaten, traditional “MASCULINE” social, political, and economic professions. Today women play in the powerful arenas of policy shaking and making.  But is that new? Think about it. History has shown the truth to the joke/not joke of “Behind the great man – there – a greater woman.” In fact, they say “Deny all men sex for 30 days and not only will there be global chaos but, in the end, guess who will be on their knees saying, “Your Wish Is My Command.” How sad!

Behind the successful race for limelight equal opportunity, there is something disgraced. Motherhood! Sacred, center stage, and seriously ill-equipped and underestimated. There is the saying “Father God – Mother Earth,” “Ying n Yang,” “Heckle n Jeckle.”  All implying balance. Deeper still! I’ve heard an old Mexican saying, “Man may build the house (the world) but woman rules, sustains and makes it home. Without it, from the cradle on, society’s future has been decaying. Mind you, mother, primary caregiver, and teacher nurture future individual citizens’ morals, ethics, beliefs, and principles. The imbalance becomes first evident when a child is passed onto the institutions of social education: 2nd mama! Thus, the clash between home, school, and workforce expectations begin and perpetuates. Think not? Think mental illness! A society full Dr, Jekyll’s, and Mister Hyde’s.

My uncle use to say, “There is nothing more magnificently beautiful, that God created under the heavens than a woman.” They also say: “there is nothing worse than the scourge of a woman.”