C: Virtuous Cycles
I have seen two news stories within the past twenty-four hou rs which have inspired me to write this post. One was the interview of Melinda Gates (wife of Microsoft's Bill Gates). The other was a news clip about the execution of a woman in Afghanistan yesterday. If I have a political-issue passion it is women’s issues. I care about American women issues, but my real passion is global issues. If you really look at things in depth, I think you will find that women are the class of people who are most deeply oppressed and against whom the most historically-sustained, egregious treatment is inflicted. I believe it has been this way for a long, long, long, long, long time. We American women have our challenges, but most of us never consider how our sisters across the world fare—much, much worse than do we. If you are interested in this topic as every thinking/caring person should be (spoken like a true fanatic), then you might want to read Half ...