I've been home a bit lately, and not writing reports so I've been watching TV, a bad decision to be sure but this is what I've come up with. Commercials are the best indicator of American society because it knows a thing or two about demographics for one, they know who they are selling to and what they are selling them. And just what and how are women being sold? Why as child bearing domestic servants, that’s how. Watch TV any time day or night and watch every household cleaning commercial, who is featured pitching you the wares? It's always a woman. The usually have on wedding rings and are often talking about what a hassle it is to clean up after a husband and a hand full of kids. Now lets expand our look at commercials. If it is a product for babies, formula, diapers, the like you will get images of the children and almost always a woman (presumably their mother). In one especially troubling commercial (one for a hummer) we are told that buying a hummer is a way to quote "get your girl on" after a mother is 'dised at the slide by another mother. The Hummer restores her confidence and her ability to be a female. Gender and racism break down now. If you watch a commercial on some new drug for venereal disease of the recent HPV commercial you will always see a host of decidedly brown faces. Apparently white women don't get venereal diseases, but when the topic is bone loss for instance then they seem to be the only one urged to talk to their doctors. 

It doesn't stop at commercials, go to any pharmacy or grocery store, condoms are almost always placed by the diapers and other baby effects and down the way from that tampons and other feminine care goods. I can't help but wonder if any one else sees the obvious statement as, "women are made to have sex with and produce babies". Other placement issues that have troubled me, the young adult section at Barnes and Nobel has a section obviously geared at teen girls, next to it on the shelf is the "expecting" section, stocked full with  books on "the wonders of maternity" and notably devoid of any advice or how-do books for fathers.

Another thing that is high on the secret boys club check list is this fact. Almost no insurance companies cover birth control. The ones that do will only do so most of the time if the patient is proven to be taking it for "health reasons" such as the regulation of their periods. Viagra and other sex enhancing drugs of that sort for me are almost ALWAYS covered. They don't even have to prove that they actually have ED, they only have to have a prescription. Also although there have been numerous cases of pharmacists denying women contraceptives that aren't married there has not been one documented case of a pharmacist pulling this same move on an unmarried man. 

The bottom line is that all this is just latent sexism but when taken all together it is evidence of larger sexism. I for one am not a baby incubator that is just laying in wait for it's chance to be useful. I am also not a domestic servant and chauffer to my husband and family. I do not need bouncy hair and a 18 inch waste to be a real woman. I want to see a real commercial with a man selling me on how much easier his life has been since Swiffer came into it, and tell me about how new Huggies have made his baby happier and more mobile. I also want to see men explaining to me (with white and brown faces) about their venereal diseases and about how they spread HPV and don't even know it, so its important for them to be tested. I want women to always be able to walk into a pharmacy and pick up their own fully covered entitlement to a happy healthy sex life. A lot of what politician like to sell us as moral issues all come back to this: Men (and I mean this is the broad general male as the other half of the species sort of way) are loosing their grip on women. We aren't going to but this crap much longer, so the only way to won us back into servitude is to tell us to live other wise is in-feminine and immoral and to try to brain wash us into buying the old shackles in new packages. I say women and men alike, do not be sold or fed, don't give up on all that was gained by letting people in government tell you the fight is over, when its not nearly half won. 

Most of all keep affirmative action, since it pisses this system off something fierce, so it must be doing something to hurt them, and any injury on the male white power social system is good.