Don’t Just Wear Red - Start “Seeing” Red!!!

Rosie the Riveter… I know that many hail her image as a face of triumph but she is really the reason that we are in the shape that we are in.  Our health has declined tremendously and more so in the case of women dying in droves of Cardiovascular Disease at that of a much higher rate than our male counterparts.

The Go Red for Women campaign of the American Heart Association’s National Movement to end heart disease and stroke in women is a search for a cure and I will tell you that the cure is already here – Don’t Just Wear Red – Start “Seeing” Red!!!  Why? The only way to go through is to go back-wards, not in ideologies but in the way things used to be.  Was it fair that men died more before we entered the workplace? Of course not, but it was the order of things because they worked more to provide for their families and they bore more of the brunt of stress that women now endure as being breadwinners, caretakers and all else for their families. 

We have once again found ourselves out-of-order and when we get out of place, the paradigm shifts and the alignment of how God intended for life to be goes awry; no different than the animal kingdom or environment – You get to screwing around with the nature of a thing and it causes long-term systemic effects.

The men used to hunt the wild game and the women cared for the children, and did some hunting and gathering… The men used to go out and work and provide for the family and the women cared for the children and did some other chores that kept the house running… You see the running theme?  The men did the brunt and grunt work and the women didn’t stress about how things were going to work themselves out; the men did and that’s why they were dying.  Sad but true. 

Women were to be the support system and the shoulder for her man to lean on and the ear to receive his grievances about how his day had gone or his hopes for a better tomorrow.  No, I am not saying that a women’s place was only the kitchen or the bedroom but when she was there she lived longer.  With work comes greater responsibility and with more responsibility comes more stress, and with more stress come more disease and more death!  It is what it is… You can disagree with me or my way of thinking but I know God set his creation in motion and we have rocked the boat. 

The science, the numbers, and the facts don’t lie.  Education, voting, rights are not what I am speaking of; so please don’t think that I am saying that women’s right’s don’t matter or count for anything because they do, but now we have other epidemics that have sprouted; more women who drink or abuse drugs to escape the running of a household; and the demise of the family unit in general.  There is a difference between Head of the House and Head of the Household.