No Gloves

Sunday, August 04, 2024

The Harris campaign continues moving vigorously. If it has a positive outcome, perhaps this nation will reconsider instituting an ERA. At last, more Americans are moving toward supporting gender equality.

Over a hundred years ago, women began dropping their bustles and entering the Roaring Twenties. They then bared more feminine body parts, and especially knees while quick-stepping to the Charleston. Those were increasingly modern times as women transitioned from being full-time kitchen and household managers toward doing, saying, and influencing more.

About a hundred years later, American national politics are being roiled by an exceptional opportunity. There’s a strong woman candidate for President. The rapidity of her ascent and her popularity are confusing to the male-dominated opposition party, about how to combat her.

Along with most of the world’s population, I’m on the edge of my seat, amazed and watching, wondering how this bigger-than-an-Olympics contest will play out.

Most of us have spent a lifetime recognizing and accepting that social environments are primarily male-dominated. They often have ignored or downplayed and have mistreated women. What’s happening today tickles, as a viable national candidate, with strength, and a woman! vigorously opposes a recognized, known bully.

Dear Friends: These moments are historical, regardless of their outcomes. Diana