true feminism

True feminism has been portrayed for years by the media and the fanatic "get rid of men" crowd, such as my old AWS organization at good old MU, as having to break glass ceilings and having to act and be like men to compete with them for jobs and having to push aside our natural nurturing tendencies, etc..........How wrong they are in their portrayal, and how much wrong they have done to the women who believed them....

True feminists are those women who have stood strong for their ideals even in the face of severe
opposition. They are the ones who have looked society in the face and told it to go to hell, they are raising their kids and keeping their families together and working a job or two or three at the same time. They are the ones who know what they want and how to get it without sacrificing their character doing it.

They get up every morning and make sure the kids are off to school with food in their stomachs and their backpacks loaded with last nights completed and checked homework, agendas signed, lunch boxes in hand. They stand on the porch, waiting to make sure the kids get on the bus, before beginning the rest of their day.

They get ready for work and go in to do whatever their job requires of them the next 8 or so hours until it is time to go home and check the kid's homework and get dinner ready and clean house and do laundry---oh yeah, and they are not ashamed to admit they cannot do it all alone, so hubby gets to pitch in, or the kids, depending on their ages......She gets the kids to bed and gets to relax a minute or two, if she is lucky, before she hits the hay only to get up and do it all again tomorrow...

She is the one cheering at the events her kids are involved in--from little league to high school sports to plays to musicals........she is always there to encourage and support.....

She works outside the home, but considers raising her family her true job---the most important one.

She follows her dreams, even when they change to include the dreams of others near and dear to her heart....

She teaches her kids about drugs and alcohol and smoking and sex....and prays silently that they make better choices than she did at their ages, or beyond, and cries with them when they don't....

She makes mistakes and learns from them, not blaming others, but realizing where she made the wrong move........

She loves with all her heart and soul and mind......

There is so much more to her than meets the eye....