D.J. Parsons - More Than One Storm Coming: Women Will Decide Elections from Now On—2020 Guide

MORE THAN ONE
STORM
COMING

Women Will Decide Elections
from Now On2020 Guide

D.J. PARSONS

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To Heather Heyer, protestor against hate gro ups

and first martyr of Womens Storm 2017,

Charlottesville, Virg inia

We will give our lives for our childrens freedom in Ame rica.

American w omen

CONTENTS

Republican Convention 1920

Republican Convention Chicago, June 1920

Stretched high above, a National Womens Party banner reads Why does the Republican Party block suffrage? Tennessee legislature became the thirty-sixth state.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states and federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.

August 18, 1920

My grandmother, born in 1903, must have been right in the thick of it. I regret that I was paying more attention to disco in 1970 than taking the opportunity to ask her about those times.

My mother, born in 1925, did not speak about the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24, 1929, or the Great Depression. Those two women may not have wanted to relive the memories of a divorced mother with two small children struggling to live in an environmental disaster, the dust bowl.

Did they take their plight for granted? No money, bread lines, men traveling from state to state and lined up for work projects or possible jobs. Was it so terrible that certain memories were pushed into the subconscious? Fear and broken hearts?

It was left to a relatively small number of women to sacrifice and fight to secure all women the right to vote, representing and including those who vehemently fought against them. It appears, one hundred years later, it will remain the same. Many are confused about women who support men who denigrate women. We are seeing more than a few.

Women have had to do much to survive throughout history. Ive often thought I wouldnt have survived traveling west by wagon train over plains and mountains, perishing along the way. To live, women did what they had toand we will once again.

Part 1 will revisit the 2016 presidential electionI dont want to, but we must. It is ground zero. Weve been hearing the phrase culture change on the news, but what has happened is much more than that. We are in the midst of changing archetypes. This will affect females legallyand not in a good way, if were not careful. In parts 2 and 3, well address our biggest hurdles: men in the church and men passing laws against us. In part 4, we make a plan to implement between now and 2020.

This is another 1920 moment. Some of us will do the heavy lifting to keep our daughters out of Russian brothels or any other ones. In my closing argument, you will be asked which side of the ledger your name will go on.

The intention of the main body of this work is to serve as a big hot warning to women that their lives will go south in a hurry if men accomplish their planblocking educational opportunities for women, fair wages, and safe reproductive care; forcing births; and exercising pure, raw power. This snowball has been increasing in size and picking up speed for quite some time. Today, October 5, 2018, millions of women are nationally marching in protest against men; the nonexistent war on women of ten to fifteen years ago has culminated in downright viciousness toward women.

There we were, all minding our own business, trying to get educated and paying the costs for it, falling in love without losing our own identities, caring for children (our own and for others) who needed us, worrying about feeding them and keeping them safe, finding jobs that paid enough for gasoline to get us there, and squeezing in maybejust maybea movie or a morning worship service somewhere sometime.

And then the bottom fell out.

Now if youre a woman, you cant possibly pay your student loans. The love of your life is absorbed in his desires and tries to include you, but your interests and priorities take the back seat. You are the one to keep tricycles out of the street, get clothes washed, and ensure some sort of vegetables are eaten. You must leave early for work today, and your parents in skilled nursing need love and attention.

Just when you thought you could juggle all the balls without catastrophe, women everywhere have been made aware that not only were they sexually abused at one time or another, the hidden episodes kept close to their vests, but that so were millions of othersand I mean millions. Your little girls chance of having a positive sexual experience with a husband is practically nonexistent. There is no source on this, but I believe the statistics are wrong. Its not one out of three women abused; it is two of three. Id say three of three, but a few of us might have slipped through their fingers.

Identifying my audience seems to be endless. Women marching in the streets appear anywhere between tween and geriatric and from all ethnicitiesyoung women who havent had their first kiss and those of us who kissed too many.

Is it true that the scars we carry, the crushing disappointments, and the wondering about what might have been will lead to something positive in the end? As I approach my seventies, what have I found? Everything is indeed worth it; these fights are necessary. As I watch my older dog teach the new puppy to go potty outside, older women now must encourage younger women. Men must be corrected if traditional marriage is to survive.

My training, expertise, and interest come from twenty years in the fashion industry (designing and manufacturing womens full-figure lines from 1974 until 1994), ten years as a church secretary (continually getting under the skin of six pastors from 2000 until 2010), and twenty years of marriage (his fourth wife and my one husband).

The outline of the book is divided into four parts: relationships, religion, politics, and jobs/work. It is a blend of political narrative, current happenings, history, personal analysis, and a call to action for women. I am hopeful that women and men will find the ideas in More Than One Storm Coming thought-provoking and enlightening.

Readers and moviegoers alike will recognize the following characters. More Than One Storm Coming is nonfictionand as real as it gets.