Well, well, well. Three women on the Supreme Court. Will wonders never cease. There was a time when I expected more. Now I'm happy with gestures. Maybe I will not live to see a woman President or even Vice President, but I saw a Speaker of the House with lipstick, and that ain't hay.
I come from a line of matriarchal women on my mother's side. The U.S. Government refused to negotiate treaties with tribes led by women, and changed the cultural nature of Indians for a while, until people like Wilma Mankiller. The U.S. Government is mighty resistent to anything but men, more so than many other Western countries. Our country is terrified of the power of women, maybe partially because in the not so distant past they saw other cultures functioning with women as shamans and chiefs. They refused to speak with those women. They refused to listen. In their own homes I assume the pattern was the same.
But this is a short history of this country as the United States of America. For 10,000 years before that, various tribes heard women's voices and honored them. I hope the preponderance of history wills out. I'm proud of what came before. Came before 1776.
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