Women and Societal Changes

In Xinjiang, the women got in the faces of the Chinese police, screaming at them and asking for the release of their male relatives. In past political protests and revolutions, when women got involved, they all succeeded. It was not easy for police and soldiers to shoot at unarmed women.

The famous painting of the French mob attacking the Bastille prison--- that brought on the French Revolution and shook to the foundation and eventually destroyed the concept of absolute monarchy--- had a woman carrying the French flag. There were many women in the painting also.

In all mammals, the females are very important in the preservation and the spread of the species. To assimilate a conquered people, the conquering kill off the males and have sex/marry the conquered females. To spread a new religion, the target is always the women because the women are easier to convert. Women are more practical and adaptable to new ideas. If the new religion brings them tangible benefits such as food and a chance to move up in society, they will follow it. Women are not as too hung up with ideologies and finer points of theology and arguments as men. However, men often adopt the religion their girlfriends or potential girlfriends in order to win their hearts, not usually vice versa. Chidlren tend to follow the religion of their mothers. We need to watch the animals programs on TV more often to remind ourselves of two things: one, there is a thin line in behavior between animals and humans; second, life is an endless struggle to survive as a group. To be weak is to invite attack. To survive as a group, as a species, altruism must take precedence over naked selfishness. Animals instinctively adopt the practice to fight/sacrifice themselves for the sake of the group. Only with humans, naked selfishness is practiced to the extreme in some cases, with unavoidable catastrophic results for the group/tribe/nation if such practice is prevalent. Vietnam, unfortunately, with the behavior of the ruling communists as an example, is such a society. Vietnam is in acute danger of disappearing as a sovereign country.

Women often don't do politics, but if they do, the situation must be very critical, a make or break point for a society, as it is happening in Vietnam. Vietnam is at the crossroads, either it will continue following the path to become a province of China or the people wake up in time and join the movement to keep Vietnam independent. The future is up to us. We influence the future. Those who are passive and scared and concerned only with saving their own skin will always regret later on. Look at what happened to those who failed to resist fascism and
communism fiercely in the years between WW I and WW II. Totalitarianism will never go down by itself. It only goes down when it meets resistance.

We all die someday. Let's live in a way that brings real meanings to our lives.