Women, We're in Danger Again. A Thousand "I Told You So's"

Listen to the women. We've been there.

Steinem, Abzug, Chisholm, and Freidan. (Photo source: Ms Magazine, history of the National Women’s Political Caucus, 1971)

So it’s the women and children who may suffer the most under Trump’s vicious regime. No surprise there, we’re always the targets, the scapegoats, the reasons for various crackdowns.

I’m a woman. I’m an old woman, having come of age in the 1950s, when women were still to be seen and not heard, when we were basically breeders, before we had any real rights, until we got smart and fought for them in the decades afterward.

Because I’m that old I’ve had a lot to say over the years, whenever something happens to demoralize us and/or set us back. I wondered last night, as the Epstein scandal comes to a head, just how much I really had written on our plight and our needs. Much of what I’ve written over the years was written long before the internet and is no longer accessible. So I went back and read some of my more recent pieces, which still tell the same story.

Because that story has never been resolved.

What was the main thing I discovered? Besides seeing that almost of all of what I believed then I still believe now, only more so? That barely anyone else has read anything I’ve ever written about women.

I look at the number of hearts and comments on those pieces and they’re, I’m sorry, pitiful. Nevertheless, I had something to say and I worked on them until they spoke to an audience who might need to hear it. But I was new at Substack and my blog, Ramona’s Voices, was just another blog among many. Hardly anybody saw them.

We women are in grave trouble. Again. Still. So rather than repeat the things I’ve written in yet another blog, I’ll share the links to some of the pieces I’ve already written. It won’t get past you that they’re all still relevant today, but I don’t share these pieces so we can commiserate. No, I share them as ammunition.

So please comment if you have something to say—and I hope you do. Please share if any of them resonate. And please, please subscribe if you haven’t already. We all need all the friends we can get.

And this one:

And here we are again. Or still. Angrier than ever, far more frustrated, seething over past injustices…and nowhere to go with any of it. But the good news is our young women are with us. They’ve only heard the stories of our efforts, but they’ve felt the backlash. They know what they’re in for if they don’t fight back. And they’re willing. So are we.

We’re going to win this time.

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