11.12.2005

Equality? YSR

Did anyone else catch, after Rosa Parks died and was given (I thought, quite rightly although I suspect the government agreeing to it may not have been for "higher" reasons) a state viewing in the Capitol Rotunda, that she was the ONLY woman ever to lie in repose there? Hundreds of men. No women until Parks, who was the second African American.

Although more than 3,400 men have been given the Medal of Honor, only one woman has ever been named as a recipient; a Civil War surgeon whose award was taken away for 60 years after her death. I suspect it had to do with her not owning a penis.