They Can't Make Her Cry

There are teardrops in her heart

But they can't make her cry...

Young Iranian woman protesting mandatory wearing of the hijab

(2014)

There are teardrops in her heart

But they can't make her cry.

She's lost all the kin that she's known

And the tears will turn into stone

All the teardrops in her heart

Cause they can't make her cry.

 A lone Iranian woman standing in defiance removes her

 headscarf in public.  Since the 1979 revolution, women

in Iran are forbidden to bear their heads in public without

risking punishment and arrest by the government.

It's not very hard to weep

 When you're a little girl

It's not very hard to weep

 When you're a little girl

But they made a little girl feel 

Like a woman made of steel

Makes no difference how they try

They'll never make her cry.

A young Iranian woman raises her fist in defiance amid a cloud of tear gas

 at a recent protest at the University of Tehran.

In reference to the upcoming Women's March on Washington, 

I'm sure that the main focus will once again be public displays of

disrespect for President Trump, as well as the following same old issues:

Hail Nasty Women

Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Power

Not My President

Don't Booby-Trap My Uterus 

The Future Is Still Female
Putin Won America Lost
Build The Wall Around Trump
We're The Daughters Of Witches You Didn't Burn

And many more controversial and disturbing sentiments,
 and yet, at the end of the day, thousands of American women
will be allowed to return to their homes, unscathed, having exercised

their Constitutional right to freedom of speech and assembly,
not to mention their utter contempt for our free nation's glorious capital

  by the level of debris they've left behind  for the city's sanitation department.

The aftermath of the 2017 Women's March on Washington

As an American woman I have always lived in freedom.

Freedom is a precious gift that I have taken for granted in my life.

I guess because I have never lived without it.

However, as I have grown older and considerably wiser,  I have

come to realize how dear to me my freedom really is, especially when

I realize that, over the centuries, both men and women, 

have lived and died fighting for the cause of freedom, thus securing the
promise of liberty for succeeding generations of Americans.

I believe that American women have more equality 

 than any other females on the face of the earth. 

  Over the course of our nation's  242 year old history,

Women have won the right to vote.

Women have won the right to employment and 

to work with men in the same workplace.  

Women go to school, earn degrees, establish careers, while

some women become wives, mothers, and homemakers.

Women have been guaranteed the right to abortion.

American women overall have the right to live and do as they please

because We the People have a wonderful document called the
United States Constitution which guarantees that

they have the right to do so.

And this is why it pains me to see American women misusing and

abusing the given promise of freedom to publicly disrespect 

our President while incessantly demanding "more equality".

Meanwhile, across the world, women in Iran are rising up too,

however, these courageous sisters are in great peril of being seized 

 off the street and silenced forever by their repressive government.

These women cannot take for granted their freedom of speech

or the right to assembly or protest, for there is no such guarantee of

 these individual liberties in their land. Equality is something unheard of.
  There is only the certainty of oppression and tyranny,
 imprisonment, and death.


My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Iran,
and with all who yearn to breathe the air of freedom.

They Can't Make Her Cry

Nat King Cole