Well recently we suffered a setback and all I wanted to do was lay in bed and sleep and if I did move around my house, not change out of my pajamas. This friend of mine, (Lyndsey the badass) loaned me the movie, "Iron Jawed Angels" Starring Hillary Swank, Anjelica Huston, and Francis O'Connor.
I did not know much about the women's suffrage movement, nor did I care before seeing this movie. It was a story about Alice Paul & Lucy Burn's return to the United States after a visit in Europe back in the 1910's, where they took part in an active Suffrage movement.
When the gals came back to the United States, they found the current (at the time) women's suffrage movement to be more of a tea party throwing advocacy group who were not accomplishing anything more than sitting on their tuffets and sipping tea.
Well Lucy and Alice saw what could be accomplished if you stood up and actually went into action for what was right & did not sit back & let evil prevail! They set into action & recruited other women to stand up with them. They began staging protests in front of the white house. War broke out & they were arrested for protesting the white house during times of war.
While imprisoned, they set out on a hunger strike to protest the crap treatment they received while they were illegally (unconstitutionally) imprisoned. So they were force fed by having tubes rammed down their throats, having milk & raw eggs fed thru their tubes into their stomachs. Following up on the story later, I found that Alice Paul may have suffered for the rest of her life physically from the abuse.
So I thought about this movie and I cried while I watched it and I realized what heroes we are when we stand up and take action for what is right, no matter whether "they" like you or not. And it further convinced me that sitting around waiting for something to change and accepting crumbs when there are obvious answers that are perfect, is bullshit.
I watched the way that the tea sipping wimpy woman movement bashed the iron jawed gals who were actually out there making things change.
And I thought about animal "rescue" people who sit by complacently & do not make waves but instead make fun of & bash those who will go into world & fight for animal lives instead of sitting back complacently & letting what will happen, well happen.
Screw that! The killing can stop right now and it should. So called "animal rescue" people who sit back & hem/haw or defend the animal serial killers while rescuing a dog or a cat or two here & there make me sick! Well it is not so much that they make me sick for rescuing their few little animals because every animal life is important, but the excuses they make for the killers & the way they step out & defend them at every turn is inexcusable!
Take your rescues and Get Out of the F'ing Way! Because you ARE the problem! When someone goes to try and fight for what is right, the people in power are able to point to your lack of backbone and say see there, they agree with us...The killing must be done and they agree with us...
And they are serial killers and you are accomplices!
