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All right this is why I started this account. One of my Facebook friends shared this article and I have so many thoughts about it. You guys don’t know me very well so I’ll go ahead and say I am very much a liberal. I have not been to any marches from women’s rights or LGBTQ rights but I totally would if one came near me (I live in a very small town). I would do what the author of this article would refer to as “complaining”. Anyway, let’s cut to the chase. If we’re playing point-counterpoint, here’s my counterpoint.

Being completely honest, I’m not aware enough about the situation in Syria to say anything about that so I’ll just skip over it. Donald Trump is a shitty president, sorry not sorry.

I suppose this article didn’t make me very angry until I read the tenth paragraph (including the bold one sentence things). The author says “American women want to fight for the equal wages, when women in other countries get beat and mutilated for simply being a woman. The LGBTQ community is becoming more accepted in America, in other countries you would be killed. You get offended because someones religious views are different than yours, but in many other countries you will be brutally tortured for having opposing views.” There’s more to it and you can read more in the link but this was the part that made me want to click away from the article. Before I get into this, I want to say I won’t be talking about the rest of the article either because, in summation, the author basically tells America to stop bitching about our problems and be happy with what we have, like (s)he does in the section I posted above.

My rebuttal is yes, I do realize that women’s rights are much poorer in other countries. I realize I, as a woman, am fortunate to get to go to school and study what I want and go get a job in a field I want to work in rather than stay at home with a man my father married me off to, a man I might hate, and take care of our children and clean the house. I do realize that my friends in the LGBTQ community are fortunate to live in a country where they are “becoming more accepted”. Is it just me or do you guys think it’s funny that the author basically says “stop complaining about all the issues in America” but still acknowledges that the LGBTQ community aren’t as widely accepted as people outside of that community are? Still, I am happy those people aren’t in jail or dead. Finally, yes I do realize that religious freedom is a wonderful thing. I am aware that, as an open atheist, I would have been dead a long time ago if I lived in another country. Also, nice how you never mentioned race. I suppose that’s not one of our problems. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics and every other race are all equal in America. No rasism here. Anybody who has been killed by a cop for a petty crime or no crime obviously deserved it for another reason. Didn’t I tell you guys not to take me too seriously? 😉 Still, I would say you’re right; yes, America is not the shittiest place to live.

Here’s the thing though. Since Columbus came to America and even before that, somebody has always had it worse than America. Early Europeans were constantly fighting diseases like the plauge, chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough that could potentially wipe out massive cities while the Native Americans were mostly people of war and didn’t have to deal with those diseases as often. Africans were being dragged against their will onto boats by European and American slave traders and separated from their families for FOUR CENTURIES. During those four centuries, America was colonized, fought for freedom and abolished slavery. There are so many times throughout American history people like Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln could have sat back and thought about their problems and thought maybe we could just live like this. Crazy right? Can you imagine if the founding fathers and pre-Americans said “yeah this taxation the British are putting on our tea, sugar, and other neat things really sucks but influenza just wiped out a city in England. That sucks more let’s not bother them, we’ll just pay this tax.” Can you imagine if Abraham Lincoln came into office and said “you know, I don’t think slavery is right but South America and the Caribbean are taking WAAYYYY more slaves than we are, so maybe they should get their shit together first and then once we have to most slaves, then we’ll straighten it out.” If the people who are immoralized in American history never stood up for what they thought was right or even just what they wanted, we would be one of the countries the author is descriping. We’d be tea- sipping- slave-owning- Church-of-England looking ass bitches.

I want to be paid the same amount as a man for doing the same job. I want my friends in the LGBTQ community to not be thought of as outliers of society be regular people. I also want my friends of different races and friends who follow a religion other than Christianity to be thought of as equals. If there is a reason why none of these things should happen, please let me know. Also, if you chose to do so, try not to look like a sexist, rascist, homophobic or just like a flat out asshole. I warn you for your sake, not mine. I find those comments to be hilarious. I hope 100 or 200 years from now our descendants will look back at what our generation did and think of us the way we think of the heros of the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. I want them to think about how nuts it would be for a woman not to receive equal pay as a man, or for somebody in the LGBTQ community, somebody of a different color or different religion to not be thought of as a normal member of society. Mostly, I think there is a difference between complaining and fighting. We’d be a much different country if people smarter than you hadn’t figured this out earlier.

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