We interrupt this series of inspirational (and I hope empowering) messages on creativity for some thoughts on what is going on in politics right now: specifically the fact that the war against women is hitting a new high.
The media has long and regularly made a mockery of women and now we are all going to pay for it by women losing every important right we have ever fought for.
I am angry and disappointed in the way the media portrays women. I believe that their lack of respect now threatens to undermine all the strides that women have made in my lifetime.
Because of the way women are depicted (or not paid attention to at all) in the media, as trivial, throw-away objects of either sexual desire or mass ridicule, I now have to drop everything to fight for rights that should be universally granted to all women as long as we are the rightful owners of our bodies.
Going forward, I am ONLY going to give my attention to media resources that portray women as empowered, equal members of this democracy, and portray us with dignity and respect.
I invite all of my friends, whether Democrats or Republicans, to join me in withdrawing attention and funding from media that undermines women’s rights and dignity and join me in rallying around and sending money ONLY to media outlets that treats women as equal players in this democracy.
And here is my message to the media: Get powerful women on your radar, media, and start writing intelligent news about us as though we were equal players in this democracy.
Because guess who writes the checks in most families? We do.
And we are not going to support major media outlets who trash women, no matter what our political affiliations.
Our daughter’s rights to govern her own body are now on the chopping block and this will, very much, affect our daughter’s day-to-day equality in the future.
What this means to me as a mother is that the depth and breadth of our daughter’s future rights as women are being written in the halls of government right now.
Do I want my daughter to have the same freedoms, I have had?
Then I have to act.
Do you? If so, then you need to act, too.
Please join me in writing an equal future for our daughters and boycotting media that trivializes women in any form of coverage.
And let’s start paying more attention to media that eschews sensationalism and throwing the dirt of the day against a woman in the spotlight for thoughtful, intelligent, equal coverage of women in world issues.
