Geisha-Friends by Ms. Carmen Welsh

Geisha-Friends

The Age of Women By Professsor Bert Lorenzo

I favor women. I grew up surrounded by aunts, female cousins, sisters and my mother and their female friends so I’ve always found comfort, peace and safety in their company. I’ve also felt more at ease with female friends and I don’t speak guy talk fluently. To paraphrase Richard Dreyfuss in Whose Life is it Anyway?, I love everything about women especially the way they think. I think it great the future trend of women gaining more power in the world.

We live in an exciting time because we will witness the birth of a new age. Those of us of a certain age witnessed the birth of the information age. Now we enter the age of women. The former lead to the latter. Women will lead in the even newer age of information manipulation.

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world. The brain has surpassed brawn in the workplace and on the battlefield. Women outnumber men in classrooms in the U.S. and in many other first world countries. This bodes well for women economically and politically while men suffer high unemployment rates and tyrants lose power. Women develop their communication, reasoning and organizational skills at a much higher rate than men and increasing show more courage than men in extremely dangerous situations.

In Cuba Las Damas de Blanco take to the streets every day to protest the increasingly repressive communist regime. They speak, absent men, on behalf of political prisoners and democracy. Every day they suffer physical and psychological abuse but they remain undeterred.

In Venezuela recently elected representative Maria Corina Machado is the lone, loud voice in Venezuela’s national assembly. She argues against the increasingly repressive Chaviztas. I urge you to view her February 24, 2011 speech at the national assembly. I remind you she criticizes the Chavez regime at risk to her and her family’s safety. I predict her the next Venezuelan president.

In the Middle East and in the U.S. more and more Muslim women, not men, write and speak-up against the pox that has infested that classical culture. These Muslim women, not men, have the courage to admit the Muslim problem in the world.

In the business world all major companies and corporations run by women have done well during the economic shift of the past few years and through their innovation and hard work women drive the economic explosion of developing nations like India, Brazil and Chile and in U.S. politics women continue to gain power. More and more women have seats in congress and in the executive cabinet. I predict a woman the next U.S. President.

In the second and especially the third world women still suffer. They’ve made little ground on men and because tyrants rule in these two worlds neither sex has opportunity to evolve. Women particularly have a terrific plight because superstition and chauvinism flourish in these countries. How can women advance and make their countries better when men in those countries can “legally” rape, perform female genital mutilation and kill women for honor?

I have hope that the lives of these women and of their daughters will improve thanks to their own efforts, the increased free flow of information and long-distance communication tools.

Copyright Bert Lorenzo, 2011