Yesterday, at the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, a friend tells us about her partner’s encounter (she couldn’t be with her) with passive, low-level anti-abortion disruptor’s:
“They got off the bus along with about 15 buses in a line and started marching right away. They were following what they thought were march organizers. Then they noticed after about an hour that they were going in circles. They figured out eventually that they were being had. So, they regrouped and started over only to have the same thing happen again with a different set of people, all “official looking.”
So, they never even got to The Washington Mall or, to Pennsylvania Ave…”
As funny as this story was to me and as sure as I am that they are all valid issues, if any message was sent to Washington it was; not one of those people represent a vote for Bush.
Yet, despite the apparent validity of all of the issues, I still ask alone in the wilderness, “What about men’s reproductive rights.” The very term “mens reproductive rights” still does not exist outside ridicule or, as an example of the ultimate oxymoron.
Too silly for you? How about mens health issues? Why do we accept that men will not live as long as women? How can that be acceptable to a cultured society? Or, what kind of culture teaches men and boys to suck up pain yet, nurtures girls and women for it? “Suck it up, it’s just a bruise…” When they become men, it’s arthritis, diabetes or, cancer that they are sucking up and dying from? Talk to me how bad womens health issues are when testicular cancer prostrate cancer research funding approaches 1/10th of what ovarian and breast cancer funding is.
We’ve got a long way to go, baby.