Ugh, where to begin. For one thing this story never changes. A women in middle-management could have said the same thing 20 years ago and it goes back to when "uneducated" women wrote 26 line sonnets with alternating trochaic and iambic lines about, you guessed it, "uneducated" women.
I would also take issue with how this sophist dovetails her experience with an alpha-male asshole into restraining orders, rape and third world violence.
After all, Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making role in the antinuclear movement of the 1950s. Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Things have certainly gotten better, but this war won't end in my lifetime. I'm still fighting it, for myself certainly, but also for all those younger women who have something to say, in the hope that they will get to say it.
I wonder if Susan B. Anthony would have thought that anti-proliferation would be so tightly enmeshed with womens rights?
What about the sugary diary style she's writing in? She said she was forty-something, right? Doesn't she write books, too?
Finally, it seems it's a women's problem if she can't assert herself to the position she believes she's attained. It isn't with God and All The World she should be taking issue with, but with herself.
Thanks to Ms. Shaidle
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