Unfair Work Expectations Affecting Human Females

     The point is... many Moms don't have a choice, they have to work outside the home to keep a roof over their kids heads. Unfortunately, women are making only an average of 77 cents to the dollar of what a man makes for the same work. While they are also tasked with raising up the next generation (no small feat). No, women should not be required to be a homemaker rearing children her whole life. She should have the opportunity to have a career and other interests beyond the home. 

     But what women are faced with is a dual role where they want to be the best at both. Often in our country because of the lack of interest (as a society) in supporting the Mothering Role, it can easily become humanly impossible. And who do you suppose is expected to take a backseat to the career pressures? The woman, (her health, her time for herself, her household environment) and her children. This is unacceptable and in no way is it the fault of women. Women are subjected to a hostile misogynist American society that pretends they must behave like men in order to "prove" they are equal. (Which IMHO is insane and ridiculous). 

     Everywhere you look in America there are government funded jobs programs geared specifically for men. The Military is just one. The up coming infrastructure projects to the tune of a Trillion+ is another. When working mothers need help to pay for daycare or food, all we hear is crying from supposed "capitalist men". That people should be able to feed their own children or work even harder to do so. For mothers do they mean work harder at dead end jobs with 'unfriendly-to-family' work schedules? Harder at jobs that undercut workers pay because they happen to not have a penis?

    I mean really, women have been in the work force for how long now? We still have only one real career option that works well with kids school schedules, that's being a teacher. Not every woman wants to be a teacher and besides they haven't been hiring teachers since Obama's been in office. REALITY PEOPLE, WE NEED TO LIVE IN REALITY. 

     Many women want to have children, they shouldn't be required to be married to do so. They shouldn't be penalized economically for not having a husband. With the violent crime and rape statistics in this country 6 of every 10 women will have experienced a rape in her lifetime. Is it really so hard to understand why some women  don't want a husband? That maybe some have been so traumatized they find it hard to want to trust a man? With the number of men into pornography, guns, drugs is it so difficult to understand why some women can't find a man or have given up trying to find a man suitable to have in their home around their children?

     I suggest the government spend some time and money creating jobs for women who want summers off for raising their children and evening and weekends off to do the same. Do we really want to steal summers from our children to work a job that could care less about your well-being? Why are there no great paying jobs that are 5 hours 5 days a week while kids are in school? Again, how long have women been in the work force? How long have women been producing, raising, loving, mothering the next generation of the only intelligent beings we know of in the whole universe? Since men rule the world it makes me wonder if they are jealous of women for some reason. Why else would they make things so unnecessarily difficult for us?

Written by Stephanie J. Gilley

Socialism: OK For Men?

     When we listen to the Main Stream Media we hear an ongoing mantra that has been repeated for more than a decade. Socialism bad, Capitalism good. To see how Americans exist in a fog purposely contrived by the 1%, through their monopolization of the information pathways in this country, one must don their critical thinking cap.
     Looking at data is an idea promoted by the scientific method of problem solving. A time tested way of reaching conclusions in order to determine our location, so that we can chart a path to desired outcomes. In other words, we need to see where we are in order to decide which direction we want to go. If we think we are somewhere when we are actually in a totally different place, we will never be able to logically plan our way to where it is we wish to be. And this is exactly the conundrum the 1% enjoy, a spell if you will which they have cast upon us in order to enable them to reign free.
     Americans have been propagandized to hate anything to do with the mention of Socialism. It conjures up images of the late Soviet Union and the poverty and human misery suffered under that regime. It conjures up images of Cuba and totalitarian government inflicting poverty and militarism on the society there. The Main Stream Media have instilled these images into the mindset of the American populous using high tech visuals and sounds. Combined with scare tactics, negative attitudes and stories of certain doom. This is purposely instigated onto the population with a specific agenda. To promote an economic system of free market capitalism. This economic system is the favorite of archaic patriarchy which is no friend to humanitarianism or equality and in fact promotes racist warmongering, environmental degradation and poverty.
     Proponents of patriarchy do have a soft spot for men at least in as much as being able to control and exploit them for the purpose of making more money for themselves. The 1% of men in control of everything have convinced most of the other 99% of men, that all men are superior and need to rule over the Earth and all the creatures on it including women and children. That everything exists for the pleasure of men to be used as they see fit. Now, even if many open minded men realize this is an archaic and backward view to have towards the world and everything in it, they still need to be aware of it's effects. In fact, life on Earth is dependent on the awakening of male humans to the destructivism and chaos of a widespread mindset promoting  ideas of patriarchy. For in truth, patriarchy is the rule of only 1% of men over all others. Convincing all men that it benefits men in general is a huge propaganda campaign.
     Let's start by determining where we are. Looking at the facts and data is hard to do because they're not pretty. As an intellectual and civilized species we would expect to have, by this day and age, accomplished more. We should have much more to celebrate and be proud of. OK, so that's where we want to go, towards the direction of being a species that has something to offer the universe. Beauty, peace, wisdom and ingenuity more of these is what we all desire. How do we get there?
     Realizing first, that there are in fact many social programs for men. The Military is tax payer funded. A Jobs and "Private Contractor" Corporate Social Program devised to generate livelihoods for mostly men. Wall Street feeds off the Military and is run by a majority of men. Lest we forget Wall St. banks were bailed out by a social program of tax payer funds. Congress, SCOTUS, State and City Governments are all funded by tax payer dollars and are also dominated by men in their employ. Churches are extremely prevalent in the USA. Most of which serve as non-profit money conduits for the men who run them. The NFL is a male centric corporate entity that makes $10 Billion in tax-exempt profit every year. National, State and Local road, highways and bridges (infrastructure) is an ongoing jobs program for again, mostly men. When cities get grants to build anything this is yet another social jobs program for men.

     So, when we hear Republicans and Libertarians bash Socialism we now must immediately call them out. Because men are the biggest benefactors of Socialism in the USA. When we hear the Republican warmongers bash single moms trying to raise kids in a society extremely hostile to women; we need to compare what men get and the insufficient and nonexistent support for women. We need to call them out when they criticize and try to abolish SNAP. Because the reality does not support their anti-social talking points. Shining a light on Male Centric Social Programs is the least we can do to pinpoint our exact location. Allowing men to continue to imagine they are not dependent on social programs would be enabling a lie that perpetuates the archaic mindset of patriarchy.

~ Stephanie J. Gilley

The Backwards Depiction of Women in Advertising

Written by Stephanie J. Gilley 

          The prolific use of sexualized women in advertising is of deep concern for modern society. As we have learned since evolving significantly from our original state of bacteria, and as most of the world has openly acknowledged, women have much to offer beyond sexuality. Sadly our society uses the images of women sometimes subtly, other times in an over the top exploitive way to sell everything from T-shirts to TV programs.  

          The manner in which this is carried out usually involves the combination of several characteristics. The youthful expression of innocence, perverted as dizzy or vacant wide-eyed expressions combined with a visual display of the body often accentuated by computer enhancements. The resulting caricature is reminiscent to the offensive images used by propagandists against ethnic groups in the past. Groups were vilified for political and social reasons that society has since realized as absolutely unacceptable. Examples are unsavory depictions of Jews, Blacks, Irish immigrants and Arabs. The sexualized caricatures of women used in advertising, encourage marginalization of the female gender and promotes the idea of dependency on male approval for a woman to survive in our society.  Is this offensive advertising worth it just so corporations can make a quick and easy buck?

          It may be hard for some to understand the leap from ethnic group to gender. This may be because of several reasons. There are some men from almost every culture and ethnic group who are OK with the exploitation of women because it has been the norm for so long now. It’s accepted and expected almost everywhere. Women will sometimes object to being protected from exploitation because they have been conditioned by our American popular culture to seek approval from men. This approval is not merely a pat on the back.  Many women are unfortunately dependent upon the approval of misogynistic men in order to maintain a decent standard of living.  For instance a woman might be expected to agree, parrot back and participate in upholding this caricature or risk possible unemployment. If the man is her husband and she doesn’t comply, a woman could face the financial hardship of living life in America as a single mother. So when we allow the depiction of women as dizzy sexpots to become main-stream it reverberates through our society and into family groups. As these images permeate our culture it creates an unacceptable amount of collateral damage. It weakens us all when we allow the bashing, exploitation, or degradation of any group.

          The origin of these psychological ramifications, from widespread advertising that exploits the image of women to generate sales, is not complex. In America having high sales, making money, creating a business is seen as a great accomplishment and using sex to sell something, to obtain that goal is almost expected. Marketing using these images is just what American businesses do. Our women and girls feel the impact and the rest of the world has noticed, albeit disapprovingly, our blatant disregard of the problem.

          Is it because women are not seen as an ethnic group? Throughout history women have had to curry the favor of men; often regarding other women as a threat. This has much to do with our forced dependency on men.  We have been seen through their eyes as an accessory, for a large part of recent history. Like it or not women had been conditioned to seek the approval of men, and we are still playing that role to surprising and disappointing degree.

          What harm is done if a particular type of woman is used as a sexpot to sell T-shirts? Some say it shouldn’t insult all women. We have had competition for “a man” as part of our existence for so long some do not realize it is a big problem. We continue to be manipulated against our own best interests of real independence, equal treatment as people with human dignity. Women need to come together and improve the state of the world by insisting on an outward level of respect for all females. We are not merely an accessory for men. We have much more innate worth than to allow the sexualization of female images to be openly exploited for profit. As liberated as we like to think we are, these images are still here to the delight of capitalist profiteers. For too long now women have had to try to learn to just ignore them.  The use of these false caricatures is as offensive as the now socially unacceptable propaganda images of ethnic groups. And instead of hurting one group disproportionately these caricatures harm all of humanity. It is self-destructive on every level for the human race to allow exploiters to continue to demean the image of woman.

          It is important to look at this phenomenon critically and understand the true state of inequality facing women. Difficult as this may be it must be done. We need to look at the reality of it and disregard the backward attitude of those who benefit from the status quo.