[Magdalen] More USA Today.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

It varies, but the fact is, we're a big country. Hil is not having problems
in New York (or at least not nearly so much). It's in other places where
they just cannot stand the fact that she didn't get the memo they all know
by heart: "Politics is open to anyone qualified; women are by definition
not qualified."  The women among these people do not see the conflict in
their view. Folks here keep on blissfully denying it, but the fact is lots
of people hate Hillary because she's an uppity woman who dares to presume
she merits high political position, and it drives them effin nuts.

I remember like it was yesterday, talking with a mover-and-shaker woman in
my parish about the upcoming resolution on the proposed equal rights for
women amendment to the New York State Constitution. Her reaction was wildly
enraged.  I was baffled because I assumed she would be an enthusiastic
supporter. She came back at me like I was advocating something incredibly
evil.  She was a power broker, but equal rights for women was absolutely
unthinkable.

Welcome to the real world, where folks hold irrational beliefs and if you
try to show them anything, they just dig in their heels and insist all the
more loudly and stubbornly that you are out to lunch and they are the
sound-minded one.

This is why I oppose all discussion of him who deserves not to be named.
Anything you say -- I don't care what you say -- that isn't in his favor
just makes them all the more determined that you are Satan's spawn and they
are the lone forces for good.  Yep, it's just like that, and not getting
better. I can well understand why the Fathers wanted the president picked
by wise old men.


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, Scott, I've wondered for a long time why the US is so backward about
> women leaders. Other countries have had women heads of state for decades.
> Where did we get this idea that somehow women aren't as capable as men?
>
> > On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been following Angela Merkel and German news in general since
> > I've been watching the news from tagesschau.de almost daily (the 20
> > Uhr video...it's the main 8pm news show). She's been having trouble
> > with the Turkish bully Erdogan; his latest is attacking
> > Turkish-ancestry representatives in the federal parliament that
> > they're terrorists for helping pass the resolution classifying the
> > Armenian massacre as genocide. Previously he demanded punishment of a
> > German comedian for a satirical poem that lambasted Erdogan. There's
> > something called freedom of expression that he doesn't understand in
> > his bully world.
> >
> > Merkel is being criticized by some for caving in to Erdogan (or not
> > hitting back hard enough) on some issues. I did have to laugh out loud
> > when I saw a blog post where they spelled her name "Frau Mürkül,"
> > which makes her name look Turkish. Zing...I don't agree but it looked
> > funny.
> >
> > I agree that the USA needs to grow up about women leaders. Women are
> > leading in other western countries (notably Germany, where the defense
> > minister is also a woman) and doing the job at least as well as male
> > predecessors. Any misgivings over here are just ignorant. Oh, there
> > can be other problems with individual women being considered, but
> > being a woman is not one of them.
> >
> > I'd have more of a problem with a 20-something being secretary of
> > state (Sebastian Kurz, Austria's foreign minister). There just needs
> > to be a bunch more experience there that only time can allow, no
> > matter how brilliant a thinker the person is. The "Bild" tabloid, when
> > Kurz was appointed, had a banner headline in English, "IT'S A BOY!"
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>