MS. Wants to Your Opinion on What to Do Next!

Ms. Magazine Says:

We want to hear your voice! This is our chance, at last, to move forward again and make transformational change.

The first issue of Ms. magazine in 2009 - which will hit newsstands just as President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in - will feature the best of YOUR ideas for moving forward to make the change we need.

What needs to happen next? We want to hear from you. We will choose the best ideas for change and feature your name and plan in Ms. magazine. And we will forward your ideas en mass to President-Elect Obama's site Change.gov so he and his transition team will be sure to hear our feminist voices.

As Barack Obama said in his eloquent election night speech, "This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change." But as he went on to say, change cannot happen without all of us working together.

Here's what I said:

Create universal, opt-out, sex education instruction including sexual respect and healthy relationships and communication. Discuss rape, domestic violence, and psychological abuse with both girls and boys. Include instruction on homosexual love as co-equal to heterosexual love. Analyze messages counter healthy love and sex in the popular culture. Make it a detailed, holistic, two semester course taught freshman year of high school. We should not assume healthy love comes naturally. We have no evidence for that. Our children should not end up in the Self Help aisle at forty years old, wondering why they can't create joy, intimacy, and real pleasure in their love lives. Love and sexuality are sacred: we should take them that seriously.

Click that link at top to tell Ms. what you think.