Still a kid in the 70’s, I remember that round of push for equality for women. I remember the women’s rights movement being different than it is now, but who knows since the memory is coming from a very young brain and being compared with thoughts from a pretty darned old one. And my memories were created in a small Indiana town, and that too changes perspective insofar as the overall national viewpoint.
I remember there being 3 things that were scary to young me: 1. a nuclear war involving Russia 2. getting drafted because women wanted to be equal, and 3. my Mom. 😉
Common sense is not so common anymore.
Even all those decades ago, I believed that women should be paid the same for doing the same job as a man, but didn’t believe women were suited to perform the same jobs as men in certain situations. As a young adult, I believed that as a lender in a bank I should make the same pay as any man that performed equally at the job. (If my performance was better, even as a woman I should be rewarded with higher pay. Makes sense, right?)
On the other hand, if I was hired onto the state highway crew and wasn’t physically able to do the most difficult assignments, I didn’t believe I should make the same for holding a flag. Still today, I hold those opinions. To me, it’s common sense.
It’s 2025 now, y’all.
I simply can’t understand why any large employer wouldn’t simply hire the best fit person for every job assignment required to run their company smoothly. It means increased profits and oftentimes better workplace safety for employees and consumers. It shouldn’t matter what color a person is, what their sexual preference is, or if they are a man or a woman. Obviously, employers can’t be trusted to hire people who aren’t white men for their workforce so we need laws to force them to do so.
As a reminder… you can’t be a translator if the only language you speak is English.
Now you know: The gray streak in Tulsi Gabbard’s hair is her natural color. Tulsi said she started to gray in one spot during and after her first deployment to Iraq. She said she’s chosen to keep that spot natural as a daily reminder of the cost of war, the importance of peace, and who pays the cost of war. (I’m guessing she dyes the rest of her hair and leaves that spot?)