Dear Michelle,

Thank you, for being so courageous, generous and brave in your life. I know most women are. Thank you for giving up your normal life for all of us.

I am writing to make a couple of suggestions of movies for your movie nights with your girlfriends.
Movie N: 1 “Slumdog Millionaire” in watching it, focus should be made only in the two women in the movie (the mother and the girlfriend) and see what happen to the children in a world run by men only.
Movie N: 2 “Revolutionary Road” (book written 1962) while watching focus on this movie should be made in the choice the woman ( Kate Winslet’s) makes at the end of the movie.

Than the audience you have invited should have an open discussion on why movie N: 1 had so much success and Movie N: 2 so much silence.

The audience should include: Hillary Rodham, the new President of NOW and definitely Joe Biden’s wife, she is such feminist! ( reference to a very humiliating comment she made on Oprah about Hillary Rodham).

Dear Michelle, you are raising two daughters, I am raising one and personally after I have spent my life becoming a strong and knowledgeable woman, I am always upset in seeing how little choices women in the world still have.
And then I read the boring platform of NOW and I say HELLOOO,
always the same stuff: we can be more creative than that: NOW.

We want EQUAL REPRESENTATION.
Let’s not go and comment on the Iran’s elections and see those courageous, lonely women fighting for a wrong election where they feel cheated. I feel cheated (and I have cheated them in my free world) at every election because I voted for boring old and young white men that don’t do anything for women.
My inspiration in my twenties was Virginia Woolf.
When I read her books “A Room of One’s Own” , “Three Guinea” and the rest of her books, they were the answers to some of my mental needs, but we know how her life ended….
We instead are still alive and have a choice, we have to give choices to our daughters. ENOUGH with the silence to protects the men in our life. We keep loving them, we give them life, but they have not reciprocated for centuries.
It is time for them to grow up, for us to request accountability as fathers, husband, sons, brothers and friends. Lets ask them to stop cheating on us, but also let’s ask some women to stop cheating to themselves and on other women.
Your husband got the message; I hear it in every speech that he gives. Nevertheless at the end of the day, we know historically, he will get all the credit and visibility and not you or your mother. As for most of the women that have voted for him (in the primary and after) in reality just wanted to offer themselves to him as a better choices than you.
I would have voted for you, you were my candidate, but you had to take care of the children. So we had Hillary (my vote in the primary) she learned and played the rules of the world of men, did her homework and look how far she went…
Do not think even for a second that I was not ready for a minority president. I was ready for Jessie Jackson, I was ready to cross party line for Colin Powell and I voted for Obama after Hillary failure.
I read (in the part of the world where I am from) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when I was in second grade ( I am 53 now) and I did not need to review the issue any other time in my life.
NOW It is the time for men to grow up and share the burden of our private life “neither them or us can do it alone” (how do you like the quote?) and let us share the responsibility and visibility of public life, because until we keep doing all the work in silence inside our little houses, and they mess up in the big house that is our planet, our daughters will not have freedom of choice.
I am very sorry for my English but as you may have understood, English is not my first language. I am a very private person and I don’t want any attention toward me, it is not about me, but if privately you think after reviewing this letter you need more help in understanding, I am available. And if you want to know where I am from please read the following excerpts of Virginia Woolf.
With a lot of love, Tina

Excerpts from Three Guineas (1931); (on war)
Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or “our” country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or to protect either myself or my country. “For,” the outsider will say, “in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”-Ch.