And then there are those of us making toys for kids and we can't get by with that either.
I am a grandmother of a 9-year old girl. I walked into her toy room this morning and saw, sitting on her shelf of toys, a ragdoll I had made her when she was about two or three. Well-used, well-loved, well-played with. I have been selling ragdolls in my shop until about six months ago. Don't feel I can anymore. They are made with remnants, with felt and snaps and embroidery floss and safe items but items I don't have a certification for. Can't afford testing. So just stopped.
But when I saw that doll, the anger just built up in me. There is no earthly reason that I can't make these for kids who don't have so much, or kids who are ill, or just kids period! What Congress doesn't seem to realize is the fact that women have an emotion built in - called mothering. Called nurturing. Called loving. Called caring. There is an emotion within us women that causes us to want to create for kids. Why can't they hear us?!! Is it ignorance? Do we as women need to vote all men out of Congress?!!! Because we can do that!!!! Perhaps that is what it would take to make them understand, to learn what women are about.
