Unlike Crickets--Human Females Sing!

Yesterday I wrote about crickets.  The crickets invade my garage every year when autumn comes.  Every morning I hear them singing—BUT ONLY MALE CRICKETS SING!  This is true of the Cicada as well—ONLY THE MALE CICADA SINGS! Female crickets and female cicadas do not sing—female crickets and cicadas cannot sing!  Why this is so, I do not know.  

I wonder, however,  if crickets and cicadas and the Senate Judiciary Committee have experienced some kind of arrested evolutionary process or if  perhaps they have just been left behind, still living in some kind of dark age.  You see, I remember another Senate Judiciary Committee of many years ago (1991), when a female began to sing and the all-male committee members refused to listen, sang louder, and squelched her voice.  It wasn’t that she couldn’t sing.  She could.  But the male vocalists were unwilling to listen to her song. You would think in this year of 2018 that things would be a little different this time around.  You would think it would be different with four women now on the Senate Judiciary Committee.  You would think in this day and age that everyone would be willing to let a female sing her song without a premature deafness.  Not only is a woman’s song silenced these days, but her paycheck is still less than that of the loud male chorus.

Some of the senior members of the Senate Judiciary were members of the same committee in 1991.  Apparently they have grown but little over the years for they are still singing the same refrain they sang back then.  

Human females can sing.  They are not crickets or cicadas!  We no longer live—I really doubt that we ever lived—in a patriarchal society where male voices were the only voices permitted to sing.

It was reported last night that Christine Blasey Ford, scheduled to sing before the Judiciary Committee next Monday, has received so much harassment and even death threats that she and her family have gone into hiding for their own safety and sanity.  Female human beings, unlike crickets and the cicadas, can sing and ought to be free to sing their song without being silenced or drowned out by an all-male chorus.

Everybody should be free to sing their own unique song and everybody should have the courtesy to listen to the songs that others sing.  We are not crickets or cicadas.  Sing your song!