BURY THEM DEEP AND THEY DIDN'T EXIST

Interesting, isn't it, how sometimes women just seem to
disappear? In the news today was the revelation
that Amazons really did exist. This information was
announced by a team of archaeologists. Before their
discovery, the existence of strong, determined and
self-sufficient women was said to be a myth. Watch
for updates on the Amazons as more and more women are
involved in (and leading) archaeological expeditions.

Recently, the operetta, "Evita", brought her to the
attention of the media and we learn that her body has
been moved several times and finally is supposed to be
safely disposed of where it cannot be found. The
reason for this, we are told, is that although there
are people who venerate her and want to make a shrine
of her burial place, there are more powerful people who
want her to be erased, completely wiped out of the
history books. They want to destroy her body and every
trace of her.

There has been some evidence of an Egyptian Pharaoh,
named Hatshepsut (or Hatchepsut), who was a woman.
Again, recent archaeological excavations have proven
her existence and shown that she certainly ruled and
did many things worthy of recognition and which should
have been recorded in history. It was thought that
her nephew, who ascended the throne after her
death, ordered the systematic destruction of her
face on all of the statues raised to honor her.

Recent evidence uncovered shows that this destruction
took place more than 20 years *after* her death and that
it was most certainly done to eradicate any record that a
*woman had been Pharaoh*! It involved not only the
desecration of her face on walls and statues but also
other artifacts of her existence were removed and
buried. All this to prevent a woman's name from appearing
in the Egyptian book of Kings.

We don't have to go way back in history to find the
systematic erasure of women's abilities. One of our
readers sent us the following information:

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has long had a policy
of prohibiting women from being members. They claimed
that "... our superior sound was due to its all male
membership, so if we had to take women, this unique
sound would be ruined; having women in the orchestra
would distract the men; women would take too much leave
to have babies and care for sick children making it
necessary for VPO to hire extra people to cover for the
absent women; social-political goals are not compatible
with artistic goals, and orchestras should be exempt
from the demands of militant feminists; and female
musicians are often late to rehearsals."

Fact is that a woman harpist, Anna Lelkes has been
playing in VPO for 20 years. She was given no official
status or benefits EVEN THOUGH they could never find a
male with her ability.

One might not only question the validity of their
"superior sound" claim but also why they hid her con-
tribution.

Remember the statue of three of our activist foremoth-
ers that was buried in the sub basement of the
Capital Building? It's taken the efforts of many
women, but we are told that finally, after nearly a
century, it is in the Rotunda. The house
majority leader, of giraffe and piglet fame, hopes to
gain the women's vote in the next election by allowing
the move -- a move that has several pundits, especially
George Will, raving hysterically.

And . . . never, never forget how women's voices and
opinions were and are being buried at congressional
hearings on medically-necessary late-term abortions.
Our culture has literally been burying women for ages
as they died in childbirth and its many complications.
The congressional hearings figuratively demonstrated
how our culture buries us -- but it is none the less
very real.