Women love to shop and men love to provide. If we work together we can do so much. You may interpret this as very old fashioned. I have been thinking and slightly struggling with this myself, as I have always been a progressive and an environmentalist as well as Trans. However, I do believe in the nature of the binary sexual world. It is just true in many senses, and it may only be 80 percent true, but that wins the “race”, does it not? 

I watched the bell ring as the market opened this morning on Pluto TV on my Mac, and thus I contemplated the stock market. The stock market, I have sought to understand more intensively, as I know what an important player money and the market is in the current state of the world. I also have done this with Christianity. I sought to understand a huge force that effects our political climate as well as our scientific one on this planet and in this country. And I have greatly benefited by seeking to understand these institutions.

Being so Liberal, in my early twenties, during the early George W days, post apocalyptic 9-11, I watched the world that I hoped was being created, a world that cared about the environment, human rights, and minorities become quashed so readily as Al Gore lost the presidential election.I was totally devastated when Bush won his second term. Who knew that 18 years later we would still be here, with so many eastern conflicts under our belt, Donald Trump and his agenda, as well as living in a world and generation that is completely new when it comes to technology. Those of us that were fighting two decades ago, have become more educated and increasingly resilient. We have Bernie Sanders, TYT network, Gaia, and so many of us have conquered the bloody stones of grass roots environmentalism, starting our own goat dairies, farms, and plastic alternative micro companies/climates. We only grew stronger in the adversity, and we learned much under the shelter of the Obama administration. We did have a great wake up call however, when many of us realized we had become placid and mute, and when Donald was elected we faced our grief and pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps to become motivated once again. We had forgotten the “revolution”, afraid and devastated from what we thought were defeats.

I believe we are moving forward. I hope that as we study gender, we can also embrace what is inherently true. That there is a very ancient and poetic balance and dance that occurs between male and female, that we both have our strengths, that it is not healthy to eradicate or ignore an opposition or compliment that can teach us even more about our true nature as we look into the eyes of our opposite. I, as a serious liberal, have learned to do this out of desperation, out of choosing to not let hate devour me as I accuse my enemies of doing. If we can come together and realize that these causes affect us all, and that we need each other, conservative and liberal, male and female, we may actually be able to save the whales, free the people once again, and remember who we truly are.