WOMEN ARE DESTROYING WOMEN FOR THE PROFIT OF WHITE MEN

No Taxation Without Representation

We are Not All Voters — But We Are All Consumers

Kimberlee Jakobe
5 min readMar 5, 2024

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Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

I was born in 1970 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where my parents were also born. As a family historian, I can trace my maternal ancestors’ arrival in America from Switzerland over 400 years ago, while my paternal roots as Native Americans extend beyond documented history — that I have been able to trace.

Yet, I sit before you in an oddly uncomfortable chair with the best (though usually silent) writing partner as a lowly partial citizen.

Russian blue cat, Earth Kitt, my writing partner.
author’s personal photo, Eartha Kitt, Russian Blue Baby and writing buddy

Isn’t it just delightful how we get to pay our full share of taxes and abide by all the responsibilities of citizenship while being denied the same level of protection and freedoms as full-fledged male US citizens?

Women make up 50.5% of the population in the United States in 2023. Yet, because of the takedown of Roe v. Wade, women are now only partial citizens. We are less valuable than men but pay the same tax rate.

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