History Now

Hello Blog World!

Considering the attention the media has given future women leaders such as Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and every underachieving government worker who’s mother informed her at an early age that she would, in fact, be the first female president, I felt it would be fitting to begin my blogging career not with modern politics and stories and scandals about potential powerful women from the future, but powerful women from the past.

(And I don’t mean Sarah Connor, either, though I may get to her someday.)

Every time I hear someone on television or on the radio spew the line, “She will be the first woman to break the gender barrier in a male dominated world,” I cringe a little on the inside. Not because I believe modern history has been anything but mainly patriarchal but because it has been. Mainly. Yet, there have been more than a few moments that could easily be described as matriarchal, and despite the biased thoughts and over annunciated words of certain members of NOW (National Organization of Women), it was not always… [insert gender neutral adjective meaning ‘pretty’ here].

This will not be the only subject I cover in this blog, far from it, but it is as good a place as any to start. If I’m starting a band wagon, I may has well jump on one that’s already rolling to get an added boost, right? Well, probably not, but it’s where I’m starting anyway.

Actually, a better place to start would be here: Hello, my name is Jack, and I’ll be the person that hopefully one day will write something about history and how it pertains to modern politics, culture, and pop-culture that inspires you to get an idea, and then run with it.

Long live the Shiny Happy People.

[Tomorrow: Catherine the Great]

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