Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 18

From what I have read about the women who founded this, the organization is nonpartisan, and is not meant to be a group that backs a person directly or their political point of view. The goal is to show a woman how to run for an office. They are teaching women how to show what they want to portray to voters, the skills to focus on “why” they should run, and sometimes what the office/job really is. Most (although not all) women like to know the in and outs of something before they commit to something. I also think women in general are a bit tired of seeing all male governing bodies make decisions which have a different affect then intended on women without really having first hand knowledge of what their choices could mean to an average woman’s day to day life. On a local level, the 5 guys on a random school board in Anywhere, America, might think the layout of the new student drop off looks nice and orderly, but put it before 5 women, (with only 3 as mothers and two who never used a drop off in their lives), and in 20 mins. all 5 can tell you just how screwed up the layout is and where the traffic jams will occur 6 blocks away, annoying every commuter trying to get to work. Get women involved in designing a football stadium and instead of 1 huge super concession & rest room area, you have less expensive little ones with better restroom access closer to the stands and more counter space with the ability to make and sell more food. You want to save money by using less street lamps in public parking lots… It takes just one women to point out all the places she can be attacked raising the city crime rate. If it was me, I would have pointed out the flow in the parking layout that created the mess of were to light the thing to begin with and sent it back to the building department for further review. I know a city in this state with a all male board that passed a new requirement that all parking lots had to have landscaped hedges at least 42″ high, until the mayors wife told him he would have to increase the liability insurance on their auto policy, since his 4’10” wife could not see over his pretty but impractical 42″ hedges as she drove their new car out of the any lot into traffic. These are not even big ticket items. Women have different perspectives and reasoning sometimes behind what they see, do, and value. I don’t think it’s ideological, just experiences. We as a country should hear their voices more.

I LOVE Terri’s links. And Will’s. And Ed’s. And Jessica’s. And Ginny’s too. Plus I can pop in links to every thing. I’m far to opinionated for just one day. Ask my younger sibling if you don’t believe me. But I thank you for the thought…

The baker was Mitch, the bread made wwwaaayyyy back in 2010 during an off the cuff speech in the Senate lobby and then proofed and pounded by the tea party before it fully raised and was bake in the oven of the 2010 national election. And sliced by incoming GOP of 112th Congress on January 3rd , 2011. Some pretty stale slices that no amount of fixings ( did you noticed they forgot to put any meat in the thing), mustard or mayo that can make the lingering taste of the now moldy ideas growing on it go away long after it’s gone…

I’m felling very mediforortical today…