My lesbian daughter GETS it. My married, straight daughter DOESN'T

[HockeyMom]

My lesbian daughter KNOWS what it is like to be discriminated against and treated like a second class citizen. Her straight sister doesn't. She hasn't experienced discrimination like her sister, but if these sexist pigs like Rush and Santorum and their religious leaders like Dolan have their way, she WILL. I fought this fight YEARS before she or her sister were born. I am STILL fighting for her lesbian sister to have HER civil rights. Now I have to fight too for my straight daughter and all her straight sisters for their rights? How many times do I have to fight this, ALL ALONE. I will fight, but I want SUPPORT. My dear daughter, just being a straight, MARRIED, female doesn't mean that they will leave YOU alone. Don't dismiss what I fought so hard for you to attain when I was a young woman myself. They WILL discriminate against YOU just as much as your gay sister. You are both FEMALE and that alone will be enough for the sexist, religious MEN to make you too a second class citizen.

Sorry, if I am starting too many threads on this lately, but I am a mother and they are attacking BOTH my children.

[southernyankeebelle]

1. Maybe you should ask your married daughter to put herself in her sister's shoes. Maybe then she

could understand and feel her pain.

[RKP5637]

2. Excellent and absolutely true!!! n/t

[MindandSoul]

3. Thank you for sharing this with us. Your daughters are lucky to have you for a mother!

[procon]

4. Good rant!

Now go email a copy to both your girls. They have skin in this game, all of us do. From the old dames like me who earned our chops in the heady days of the 60s, to the wide eyed girls of the present generation, and all the men who love and care about us, we're all in this fight together.

[abelenkpe]

5. It's an attack on all women

You are right to be concerned.

Told my kids (5 and 7) the other day that had I been born earlier I most likely would not have had the job I have today. That not too long ago men considered women to not be capable of doing my job. That a woman's place was at home raising kids, cooking and cleaning. Now I love cooking and raising kids but have other talents as well. Had I been born earlier my talent would have gone to waste because back then society thought women couldn't do my job and would have denied me the chance to prove them wrong.

The right has been busy whittling away at civil rights for years. They've demonized immigrants, declared a war on multiculturalism, and are openly trying to do away with affirmative action. It would really suck if my generation was the only one to know and live what my parents generation fought for and what our society seems so close to throwing away.

[Firebrand Gary]

6. You are not alone, HockeyMom.

I could not find the link, but Connie Schultz was on Rachel Maddow yesterday and she spoke directly to the point that you are bringing up. I really liked the way Connie put it as I think it will add fuel to the fire, this fight must be taken up by these younger generations of women. "It's their fight, this is going to be their country" she said.

(for anyone who may not know, Connie Schultz is married to US Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown)

[shcrane71]

7. Could you believe the all-male religious panel to speak about contraception?

I don't think there's too many threads about this. You're right. It's going to affect your straight daughter, and it seems these types of attitudes have already affected her sister. Thank you for your rant.

[enough]

8. This is so interesting, HockeyMom.

I have two adult daughters who are living two very different lives, and I am constantly amazed by how each of them understands some things and not others.

I'm wondering, do you think with your married daughter, she doesn't get it because she is in fact "under the protection" of a man, and in this still-patriarchal society we live in that protection is actually working for her, at least for now?

Thank you so much for talking about this.

[MuseRider]

9. It truly is unbelievable that we are still fighting this isn't it?

I never imagined in my younger days that we would not be able to get this done once and for all. Then came the backlash and it has been a fight ever since. Our whole lives it seems have been about having to constantly be aware and fighting for our rights to be seen simply as human beings first and foremost.

No wonder we are all so tired. I feel like I am walking around in steel some days, Kansas has become an alien nation and it was bad enough before Brownback. The constant barrage is wearing but we are strong. The younger women don't always get it, how on earth they can feel so confident that they will not catch the brunt of this I will never understand. It is not as if we have not been warning them.

Hang tough. We have both of these fights in common. Neither will most likely be finished when we finally are but we can leave this place knowing we did what we could.