Women's Work

 Okay. 

So maybe it's the patriarchy. 

In spite of our best efforts, it seems as though white males make up the majority of leadership spots on our landscape. For example, we don't tend to flinch when we make a list of "the richest men in the world." We just assume that women lag so far behind that it's not worth including them in this accounting. Contrastingly it is unfortunate to note that the only two members of the convicted felon's current cabinet to be tossed out of that clown car were women. Idiots like Pistol Pete Hegseth and Robert "guess what the F stands for" Kennedy Jr. continue to hold down office space in the Kremlin West. 

This ruling party to which I have no interest in an invitation from continues to carry on in its boys' club way, denigrating and destroying anything that does not fit in their cartoon version of a masculine world. 

What about Hillary's emails? What about Kamala's laugh? There are still far too many knuckle-draggers willing to insist that we would not be better off currently if either of those women had won election. 

Or if that's too big a setting for you, let's take the confrontation between coaches Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley in the aftermath of Staley's South Carolina women's team win in the NCAA semifinals. Coach Geno used the opportunity to fly off the handle criticizing the officiating and then had an angry interaction with Coach Staley before stalking off the court without shaking hands with the winning team. 

The one coached by a woman. 

Since then, Coach Geno has been apologetic about his part of the ugliness, but the question remains: would he have gone screaming after an opposing male coach? 

Given the current global uptick in wars and "military operations," I noticed that in spite of there being thirty countries with women as heads of state, not one of those countries is currently involved in armed conflict outside of their own borders. If you're looking for examples of that, you would have to search bac.k a few decades to Margaret Thatcher and her little escapade in the Falklands. 

Meanwhile, in spite of that seemingly "large" number of women in charge of the globe, they only comprise eight percent of all head of state or government positions worldwide. Contrast that to the stunning number of women named in the Epstein Files. 

As victims. 

Sleep tight, America.