Why did you create All Women Are Beautiful?
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hand out hundreds of generic business cards to friends, neighbors and
mostly strangers…anyone that crosses my path throughout the day. The
card simply reads “All Women Are Beautiful” and gives the site’s web
address and nothing else. A neighbor of mine smiled, thanked me for the
card, then asked, “Why did you create the All Women Are Beautiful
website.” I honestly didn’t know. So, I went home, sat down and tried to
figure it out.The first thing that came to mind was Johnny Appleseed. In the late 1960s, my mother enrolled me in preschool, just two months after the assassination of the Rev., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and when Betty Friedan, the Rev., Dr. Anna Pauline Murray and Shirley Chisholm were establishing their newly founded National Organization for Women (NOW), which played a significant role in the second-wave of the Women's Rights Movement. The
teacher shared a book with the class entitled “Johnny Appleseed.” The
story was about a man who traveled across the country, planting seeds
that would one day grow into apple trees. He didn’t charge money for his
efforts or expect anything in return; he just did it because he felt it
was the right thing to do. I read many books and watched numerous
movies and television shows over the next 40 years, but no story ever
made a more lasting impression on me than that one. All
Women Are Beautiful evolved constantly throughout the first year of its
existence. I realized that there are many groups victimized by legal
injustice based on their age, race, religion, lifestyle choice, economic
status and/or political beliefs. However, women, who comprise half of
the world's population, represent a group of legal victims that is
numerically larger than all of these other groups combined.
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AWAB allows me to continue utilizing my visual design and editing skills that were developed while working in the Hollywood film industry
throughout my 20s and 30s. Much like filmmaking, AWAB is just another
way of connecting to a world audience through media with its website
pages and the AWAB Videos. I later noticed that more of my personality was
beginning to surface through AWAB’s pages as I began addressing issues
that have always been important to me, including history, politics, art
and classic cinema. Additional topics such as domestic violence, single
motherhood, divorce, infidelity, and bereavement were probably a
holdover from my desire as a young man to be a minister, coupled with
standard feelings that surface during midlife, when people begin to
question the meaning and importance of their existence and yearn to make a difference.
Searching for legal assistance at this particular time in my life
brought more articles, videos and links related to law into AWAB's
pages, and the resurgence of the Equal Rights Amendment in 2011 solidified the site's emphasis on legal rights.
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All
Women Are Beautiful presents an aesthetic social media forum to discuss
many important and sometimes difficult topics that affect our society.
In 1818, Mary Shelley discussed her personal frustration with many of society’s ills through her fictional character, “Frankenstein,“ in what is regarded as the first science fiction novel in world literature. Another writer, Rod Serling, placed his fictional characters in another dimension with the television series “The Twilight Zone,” which allowed him to write stories about plastic surgery, atomic war, age discrimination, racism, antisemitism
and other uncomfortable issues of his day in a safe, distant setting.
Serling also explored the ugliness of animal cruelty and racial
discrimination when he wrote the first screen adaptation for “Planet of the Apes" in 1968. Three years later, the music world would receive Marvin Gaye's socially concious masterpiece, "What's Going On," which
worldwide critics and artists consider to be one of the greatest albums
ever made and it was ranked number six on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
In the spirt of Mary, Rod and Marvin, AWAB similarly entertains site
visitors with movies, songs, and poetry, while also seeking to educate
and inform with historical videos, news links and political information.
Much like Johnny Appleseed, AWAB plants seeds and asks for nothing in
return.
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The main site page titled "Why All Women Are Beautiful" and the YouTube pages named AWAB Poetry and AWAB Library,
were created as a romantic streak ran through my creative process
in April and May of 2011. Moving to Vermont and enjoying spring rains
after living through so many arid, one-dimensional seasons on the west
coast can provide creative inspiration to an artist. Much like a
painter’s paintings, a musician’s songs, or an author's novels, AWAB’s
direction is a reflection of whatever is going on in my life and
whatever someone teaches me that is worth sharing with the entire AWAB
family. I’m sure that as I advance in age, learn more, experience life,
meet new people, grow as a human being and continue to get on my wife's
nerves, AWAB will transform as well. However, All Women Are Beautiful
will always maintain its core foundation of spirituality, emphasis on
legal rights and appreciation of the divine and universal inner beauty
shared by women of all ages, nationalities and physical characteristics.
Substantial and effective social advancements for women can only be instituted through passing laws that protect them from all forms of discrimination and exploitation, in America and around the world. Truly believing and accepting that all women are beautiful on a spiritual level is the first psychological step that must be taken by both the men and women of any nation before political, economic and social equality can be realistically implemented.
David L. Wadley, Founder
All Women Are Beautiful
July 15, 2011
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"Why I Became a Women's Rights Man"
A Speech by Frederick Douglass _____________
Reading by Ossie Davis
Click on image below to hear entire speech
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