The secret power of women.

I love women. There is no doubt in my mind they are as capable, and often more capable than men at various skills. But even that is faulty thinking. There shouldn't be a comparison. Women should make the same salaries as men, be given the same opportunities, afforded the same respect. Which isn't to say I don't have some complaints about women. I do. My biggest complaint is they don't stand up for themselves. They don't flex their muscles, growl, bare their teeth and show their power. With all the strong, intelligent women in society today, there should be an outcry that women are supposedly represented by such nitwits as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. These two harridans are not good examples of strong women; just the opposite. That would be like suggesting men are well represented by weaklings like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I am annoyed that women aren't angrier about sanctimonious men laying down laws about birth control and abortion. These are issues that should be decided by women, individual women. I wish women would complain more about how often they are shown as the cowering, helpless victims in drama, about the plethora of male-produced slasher movies, about sexual harrassment, about all the social issues where they are treated and regarded as the weaker sex (which they aren't). I'd like to see more news stories where a woman beat the hell out of an abusive husband or boyfriend, not after years of abuse but after the very first assault. Most of all when these Republican males start spouting off about new laws governing women's bodies, I'd like to see women tell them to go f*** themselves and never give those chauvinists their vote. Women have incredible strength. They just haven't used it enough to be confident in its force. But when they do....