To think, here were all the women in Utah, happily going about our lives, blind to the statistical difference in how many of us held management jobs (largely the result of many women's own lifestyle choices), when, dea ex machina! we were saved from ourselves by the last-minute rescue of national feminist organizations.
Their heartwarming desire to save us from ourselves is so overwhelming that, if they have their way, no one would come to Utah this summer, depriving women in and out of the work force of the income tourists bring, doing their part to push a few women closer to poverty or right over the edge into unemployment and homelessness, and all because we need to be saved from ourselves.Speaking for myself, I doubt Utah women have felt so loved and cared for on a national level since Congress voted in the 1880s to take away our right to vote. They used the same reasons the national feminists do.
Those fine gentlemen in government firmly believed having women participate in politics was demeaning to the fair sex. It put Utah women, to borrow the feminists' words, "right at the bottom of the barrel."
What we poor dears wanted for ourselves was immaterial. Wiser heads would protect our interests if we didn't have the wits to do it ourselves.
Let me give my thanks to all the national feminist organizations for proving the spirit of 19th-century chivalry is not dead and for showing us some things are more important than a woman's "freedom to choose" what she does with her life, especially when it doesn't support someone else's agenda.
I'd also like to thank them for mentioning how empowering it is to use money to change people's minds and attitudes. They're never getting a cent of mine.
Karen Walch
Bountiful