{"id":1247,"date":"2012-03-08T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:30:56","slug":"being-female-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/being-female-in-the-21st-century","title":{"rendered":"Being Female In The 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"international_women's_day\" border=\"3\" height=\"97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensday.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/>March is women&rsquo;s history month. Instead of moving forward with celebrations for half of humanity, some now are pushing women back to previous centuries.<\/p>\n<p>\tI won&rsquo;t rant about specifics &ndash; that is all over the &ldquo;news&rdquo; but I want to lament a bit about how backwards we are going.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn the 60&rsquo;s, birth control was not only illegal in Massachusetts [where I lived] it was illegal to even mention contraception! I do recall that most females, at least in the Boston area, knew where and how to get contraceptives and legal abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn the 21st Century, both contraception and abortions are legal &ndash; but there seems to be a desire on the part of some states to return to the eras when both were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\tWomen who speak publicly about contraception or abortion are being criticized in a negative way. <\/p>\n<p>\tStates are passing laws making it difficult and expensive to get a legal abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnd much of this is being done and said by men who say they are only interested in making sure women understand x, y and z.<\/p>\n<p>\tI guess women should be seen and not heard, barefoot and endlessly pregnant and at home with a zillion kids &ndash; home schooling all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\tI lamented on Facebook that next many states will try to remove our ability to vote. <\/p>\n<p>\tBut I guess if one can never leave the house, one could not vote anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Being female in the 21st Century means having to re-fight long settled fights <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\":(\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-content\/plugins\/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin\/ckeditor\/plugins\/smiley\/images\/sad_smile.gif\" title=\":(\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tI&rsquo;ll be posting more about women over the month as the current political climate has me back to writing my ebook about politics and women&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>\tComments? Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is women&rsquo;s history month. Instead of moving forward with celebrations for half of humanity, some now are pushing women back to previous centuries. I won&rsquo;t rant about specifics &ndash; that is all over the &ldquo;news&rdquo; but I want to lament a bit about how backwards we are going. In the 60&rsquo;s, birth control was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1332,1189],"tags":[1373,1406,1304,281,1407,1308],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-interest-2","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-contraception","tag-human-interest","tag-human-rights","tag-voting","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}