Should have seen this coming
The corporate world has always been its own sort of monster in and of itself, a bloodless, soulless monster that has been especially unkind to women. There have been countless movies made and scores of books written about the workplace inequality in some corporations between men and women. We all know it exists. And we’ve made progress in that regard, but it’s definitely NOT gone away. Just ask Congress.
This is because there’s a bit of a kerfuffle going on among the members of the new House Republican caucus. House committees have been chosen! But….But…. Where are the women? It appears that, as of this writing, NO WOMEN have been chosen to lead any of the House committees.
And as reported by Bloomberg, some republican women are a bit perturbed by this development. New York Republican rep Nicole Malliotakis told Bloomberg that the situation is “unfortunate.” She added that there are plenty of qualified women in the mix and does not understand why “There wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee.” This writer understands.
Republican women of the House better grit their teeth and get used to this, because it’s not going to get any better. The GOP despises women. We KNOW this from their actions, do we not?
Time and again, Republican MEN have diminished women in their words, their actions, and in every way politically. Just their stance on abortion is enough surely to know that these creatures of cavemen days, have little regard for women being independent beings. And they certainly do not see them as EQUALS.
The situation has become worse in recent memory, as Donald Trump ran a campaign that virtually ignored women while building up the fragile egos of the many lost and wandering souls of the “Bros.”
You know readers I should feel bad for these women of the House of Representatives. I should perhaps feel sorrowful — not one woman on any committee! Instead I only feel disgust. For THESE women were complicit in their own marginalization.
I have few fu##s to give about GOP women who belittle other women, who stand for things that are anathema for most women, who float down the halls of Congress in hot air balloons, puffed up with fake outrage and then howl with indignation, singing butter tunes when THEY are suddenly overlooked.
They really should have expected this. Just because they are republicans does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination that these men respect them anymore than any other woman. Put it this way: When Republican men look at each other, they see fellow pretend he-men. That are the roles they play, the scripts they recite. When they look at women — any woman — they do not see them at all.
