We Are Slipping

We Are Slipping

We are slipping backward

Allowing the overlords

To take back the rights

That we have fought

So hard to gain

All for the illusion

Of health, wealth, and safety

We are slipping backward

Back to the alleys

So that help can be gained

That used to be covered

That used to be legal

That used to be our choice

We are slipping backward

Letting the clergy shape our

Laws and forcing their own

Ideals down the throats

Of we godless heathens

Or even just us women

Soon we will be

Involved in an inquisition

Convert or die

We are slipping backward

Education falls by the wayside

Ignorance is rewarded and

All the lies are spread

Far and wide

Lies become truth and

Truth and facts are

Demonized and the

People who speak the truth

Are punished

We are slipping backward

Falling back in time

The “good old days”

Never existed and yet

We strive to return to them

Damaging every bit of progress

We have ever made

We are slipping backward

Sliding into a hellish past

The future looks dark from here

5/12/11

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  It bothers me a lot that I am seeing the Republican Party attempting to strip the rights of women back to the dark ages. To utilize their own penchant for hyperbole, I have to say that they won't stop until women no longer have the right to hold property. In fact, all these people harping about how they are afraid of Shariah Law being taken up in the United States seem to be trying to go back to something that *resembles* Shariah Law.

Hey ladies!

Do you remember the days when a woman could be publicly shamed for having an affair via the pillory and a scarlet A?

Do you remember when your word was taken to be less than the man who raped you because you chose to look a little more desirable that night?

Do you remember when you couldn't get a job beyond being a teacher, a typist, a nurse, or a whore?

Do you remember when you couldn't speak up about someone harassing you in the workplace; you know, touching your ass, or making unwanted sexual advances (I am not talking about how it has been twisted into an easy way to witch hunt someone that a bitch doesn't like.)?

((Feel free to add more in the comments section!))

Well, you know what?  I don't remember those times except from history. It's all due to the strong women who fought for all of these rights that I have now. Seeing these politicians attempt to strip them away in a cold, unfeeling legislature, talking about how this is against God and that is against God, makes me livid. 

I demand the right to make choices about my own body.
I demand the right to make choices about my own life.
I demand the right to feel safe in my work place.
I demand the right to wear what I choose, when I choose without fear of being assaulted.
I demand the right to be who I am without fear of persecution.
I demand the right to engage in consensual actions with one or more other adults without being persecuted for it.
I demand the right to love whom I love and not be prosecuted for it.