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The Fury

splifingate

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"For those of us in middle age or older, there wasn’t anything revelatory about the election; we’ve lived that betrayal for years. But to understand [as a young person, voting] for the first time that America would rather elect a rapist than a woman is soul-crushing."


I now find myself surprisingly living/working in an Environment of Therapy, and daily Soul-Enrichment.

My new Role is a High School Teacher.

We support each-other, and continue to conduct our (daily) check-in's in a Space of appreciation, honesty and respect.

A large part of my new Work is to become-as a surrogate Father/Mentor/Mother/Model to the best of the Little People who are now within my guidance.

I don't know just how much longer such a Space will exist; but, I will continue to Model the best in all of Us.

As a Man, I can't fully/sincerely guide these young Women into further Spaces of appreciation (and honesty (and respect)) without the knowledge that I acknowledge your existence, also.

My Soul hurts, so very much, right now.

It's taken me a full week to begin to process my own Fury.

It has taken me a week to start the beginning of the healing of my own, broken Soul.

It will take a lot longer (if such an existence may actually ever come to be) to acknowledge the fact that I live-daily with a large group of people who not only do not appreciate the values that I so hold dear, but who actually laugh in the face of such a fact.

I have become The Fury.
 
I have become The Fury.

I can't even imagine what high-school age girls are going through right now. There's an ugly post-election surge in aggressively anti-female sentiment, at least online, and online is certainly where most young people spend a lot of their time.


It's true that women who are older have maybe not "seen it all" but we've experienced surges in betrayal and harassment (the 80s, the 90s) along with better moments --earlier and later-- of advancement for women. I have no idea how to extend comfort right now to younger members of the sisterhood. I found some of the remarks of Republican candidates for high office very threatening towards US residents who are not white males.

It's not to be expected for young women to be thinking anything like "well at least it's still legal for me to have a credit card" because they don't remember a time when that was out of the question for women. Now with efforts afoot to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion programs (which let's face it are being squashed because they were working), one can begin to wonder about a woman's right for equal consideration in the workforce, her right to sign a contract, own property. How can we not wonder about that when some men are looking to classify us as property?

Some of the other rights that women in the USA have acquired in my own lifetime suddenly seem more fragile, more so than when their sturdiness first started to wane again... which I peg to around thirty years ago with the rise of talk radio that casually and then more stridently began to demean both women and people of color, and even to question the actual extent of their rights. Next up: rights curtailment. It's here.

I wish you well in your teaching assignments. I think middle school and high school teachers right now have a big challenge to help girls retain or attain a sense of self worth and expectation of an equality of opportunity going forward. Classrooms now include young women whose autonomy is intentionally being reduced by their elders, and the shame of it is that some of those elders are women themselves.
 
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