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I feel like I've been extremely lucky for most of my life
and I want to say thank you to the women who fought for the freedom I have to be the woman I am.

by KB on Thu Jun 9th, 2005 at 13:11:58 PDT
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So the pie flamewars look like they are subsiding a bit, maybe passions have cooled and I think the community at large is coming to the point where most of us would like to have dialogue and reason prevail.

I think Armando's diary is reflective of that fact.  One of the things he said was, tell us what we need to do.  I know I can't do that, because I can't speak for all of the women here.  There isn't an all-encompassing women's point of view on this, just as there is not an all-encompassing men's point of view.  

People go to see Hotel Rwanda and say, "How could the world have let this happen?" and many have no idea that it is happening as they speak in Sudan.  

I was a bit heartened to read this morning that Kofi Annan has called for changes to the UN Human Rights body.  It seems that he wants to give human rights issues greater import by changing the structure of the human rights organization and elevating it to the stature of the Security Council.

I don't care very much about what you believe in, particularly: God, Jesus, and/or Allah; Elvis is alive; Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; the moon is made of green cheese; all of the above or none.  It's not my place to care and frankly, I have more important things to worry about.  

I respect the beliefs of others, and I expect and demand the same respect.  Just because I don't believe as you do doesn't mean I deserve to have your beliefs shoved down my throat.  And the stuffing of certain extremist-religious right beliefs down the national throat is rampant these days: the current most-obvious example is the Washington Post story about pharmacists being allowed to NOT prescribe birth control AND to refuse to forward the prescription.