From Witches to Bitches

Throughout history, women that were free thinking or unconventional were labeled as Witches. They were often ostracized and in some eras, burned at the stake. The majority of these women had no formal ties to witchcraft. They were not typically performing satanic spells and sacrificing animals. They were unmarried women, midwives, healers, women with physical deformities...They were women who did not fit into the cultural norms.

Women are no longer burned at the stake as Witches - at least not in this Country!

Today Strong Willed women are labeled Bitches.

People are still threatened by a woman who does not follow conventional roles. Now rather than dragging them out of their homes and burning them at the stake; they are labeled a female dog. 

Don't label yourself or any woman in such a derogatory manner. 

 

First Blogged 2/28/12

Women's Equality was just a joke

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964  prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
The word "sex" was not in the original wording of the Act. During the debate of the Civil Rights Act on the House floor, Congressman Howard Smith of Virginia mockingly offered the one word amendment to the Act. This led to several hours of debate, later called "ladies day in the House", after which the amendment did pass.

Smith was a staunch conservative and opponent of the Act and made the amendment as a ploy to have the entire bill shot down. 

Smith later confessed to his colleague, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, "Martha, I’ll tell you the truth. I offered it as a joke."


"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source." ~ Lucretia Motts

One of the biggest moments in the Woman's Movement was made by an opponent only as a joke - That idea backfired!

Miss Independent (Cover) by LMohlenkamp

Ain't I a Woman!

Sojourner Truth was a slave who escaped to freedom in 1826. She then fought for the abolition of slavery and Women's Rights during her lifetime. 


During the Civil War, She gathered supplies for black volunteer regiments. In 1864 she went to Washington, D.C., where she helped integrate streetcars and met with President Abraham Lincoln. The same year, she was appointed to the National Freedmen's Relief Association to counsel former slaves in the area of resettlement.


In 1851 at the Women's Convention in Ohio, she delivered what would become one of the famous speeches in US History. Here is what she had to say:
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And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? 

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

WELL SAID
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Aint No Mountain High Enough by Soul Definition

Get out the Vote!

In 1848 in Seneca Falls New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first Women's Rights Convention to discuss women's equality ~ including the right to vote. 





Wyoming Territory was the first territory to grant women the right to vote in 1869. In the late 1890's, Idaho and Utah followed suit. 


On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was finally ratified. This finally gave ALL American women the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men! 

Women fought hard for you and I to have this right.

Get yourself to the polls this year and exercise that right!