Teach Our Daughters To Shoot Day
By Gary Aldrich (04/25/04)
Yes, folks, today is the day. April 24th is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day®. What used to be known simply as Take Our Daughters to Work Day has now been expanded and improved to include the male gender.
The idea seems innocent enough: expose our children to the working world, give them an idea of what career they may want to pursue, encourage boys and girls to look outside the stereotypical gender roles and broaden their vocational horizons.
But as Lisa De Pasquale, Program Director at Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, points out in a recent article, this newly revamped holiday is no more than a feminist wolf in politically correct sheep’s clothing.
Taking a close look at the activities involved in promoting this holiday, De Pasquale rightly concludes that “this stealth feminist holiday [has] bred victimology in girls and left boys behind year after year. It is now clear that the Ms. Foundation [the host foundation] is including boys simply to expand their ‘gender sensitivity’ program designed to retrain boys into girls and labels boys as oppressors of women.”
This is just another example of the PC indoctrination of our children. One must wonder, how deep do our nations politically correct roots go?
Perhaps we can jump on the PC bandwagon for just a minute and strive to bring equality for women. No more victimization of women, the feminists rant. Women should be on equal footing with their male counterparts, they should be given equal opportunity, equal respect in all areas.
If this is so, then why, we must ask our feminist friends, do they and those on the Left also seem to be the ones championing laws that prohibit women, and all citizens, from owning or carrying a firearm.
Those on the Left will eagerly agree that women are victims of violent crime everyday. But their solutions are weak and ineffective. A cell phone and 911 are the actions that a woman is encouraged to take in the event of a crime. But even law enforcement officers will tell you the obvious, they are not ubiquitous and cannot rush to your defense instantaneously.
It is clear from the crime statistics that access to a telephone is not enough.
You want equality? Then give a woman, who, by her very nature is generally built to be no match physically for a male predator, a gun, and you’ve just empowered her. Teach her how to defend herself with a firearm, and you’ve just given her what many like to call the great equalizer.
We are tired of tolerating the endless stories of brutality against our women. Women, just as much as every man, have a right to walk their neighborhoods at night not fearing for their lives; they have a right to be fearless when filling their car with gas on their way home from work, they have a right to protect themselves and their children in their own homes.
We at The Patrick Henry Center have had enough of feminists teaching victimization, and we decided to take action. April 2003 marked the one year anniversary of our Patriettes program.
In collaboration with Second Amendment Sisters and Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Patriettes has trained 100 women in the Maryland, Virginia, DC area to handle and protect themselves with a firearm – exercising their Second Amendment rights.
The majority of women coming through the Patriettes training have never before handled a firearm. Patriettes takes them from zero knowledge all the way to empowerment, giving them the necessary knowledge and skill to protect themselves with a firearm.
Many of the women go on to apply for and receive their concealed carry permits.
We have absolutely no plans to expand the women’s only program to include men as the MS Foundation has done with their holiday. Is it a crime to allow women to go through the training with other women only?
Our graduates certainly don’t think so: “Being able to take the class along with other women allowed me to ask questions I may have been too intimidated to ask in a class of men,” said Cheryl England, a wife and new mother.
“Ample practice with loading, sighting, and shooting, plus the fact that I was learning alongside a group of women, gave me the confidence to try something I would never have done in a mixed group,” said Mychelle Brickner, another Patriette grad.
Their feelings were echoed by many other women.
Take your daughter or son to work today, if you want to support the feminist agenda. But if you’re looking to give your daughter a real edge in this dangerous world, then we suggest a new holiday. Make April 24th Teach your Daughters to Shoot Day!
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