You’ve come a long way baby! That was the line from an advertising campaign in 1968. ~The advertiser was attempting to cash in on the women’s movement, what I called Feminist 2.0 at the time. A lot of young women, high school and college as well as some in the professions, became voices for a generation concerning the rights of women. Unlike today’s Feminist 3.0 follow-on, those women of the late 60’s through the 1970’s fought hard for recognition that women, too, were contributors to society beyond being housewives and mothers. Yes, you could be. feminist and anything else you desired to be, including a housewife and mother. Most of what I see today doesn’t come close to comparing to those days so many decades ago.

I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that I don’t care anymore. No matter how much I try, the goalposts for whatever it was that I believed in have moved, again, and I am just too damned tired to try and keep up. It’s not as if I was going to change the world by myself and for all the discussion I’ve had concerning certain subjects, I don’t think I’ve influenced a single person. I’m not looking to necessarily change minds, but to get people to understand that there are other points of view, many of them as valid as theirs. If one is open to rational argument, then it could be seen that there really is just one truth, that can been seen from multiple points off view.

I remember a few years ago a huge kerfuffle amongst the feminist left of how girls should be advertised to in stores. These feminists noted that there was little in any kind of crossover toys for young ones: boys would get toy bulldozers, girls would get some sort of doll, or toy cookware. It was insulting to girls, some said, that girls were relegated to cooking and child rearing even at an early age.Did anyone ask the girls? hen there were those primary colors: for girls everything was pink or purple. Even the Easy Bake Oven was pink. Hardly a color anyone would choose for a kitchen appliance. Did anyone ask?

I always attempt to do the right thing, whatever it is or means at the moment. It’s fascinating to me how many people I know that are devoid of what I refer to as moral value. I’m not saying that everyone should be just like me, but it would be nice to see some others that don’t regularly cheer on those that have proven themselves, time over time, to be completely untrustworthy. A lack of trust so significant that unless I have to, I won’t even recognize these in any rational way whatsoever.I’m not proposing any physical harm come to these, just that more people begin to be their own best counsel in some cases and not let those who’ll do whatever it takes to retain their power or influence.

Ever notice how, as an Atheist, others, including close friends and family, attempt to pigeon hole you as a person? You’re personality type, politics, yes, even your “anger” with a non-existent supernatural being. They call you “hypocrite” if you decorate a tree during the made-up Christmas Season, all the while knowing that the tree has nothing to do with the birth of their god, it’s a pagan affectation. How scrutinized your life has become by others that have yet to scrutinize their own. Isn’t there scripture that addresses this inconsistent behavior? (Matthew 7:3-5) If only believers read, understood, and followed their own holy text…