Oh Just Grow A Pair Already

Since the 1970's, when I was in my early teens, I have been hearing women crying for 'equality' across the spectrum.

In my view, 'equality' is a myth. No one of us will be 'equal' to anyone else - it's not possible because of so many variables.

As part of the campaign for 'equality', the National Organization for Women (NOW) was created. Initially, as all such organizations do, they had a big tent and a broad (no pun intended) base. Then, as always happens, politics poked its nose under the tent flap, pushed its way in and took over.

Now, the women crying for equality are just as unlikely to play fair and equal as their male counterparts. If a liberal woman comes under fire, they put on the warpaint and sally forth to defend the poor unfortunate's virtue.

However, if a conservative woman or any woman perceived to have right-of-center leanings comes out against... oh, let's say Bill Clinton, these individuals who demand "equality" give the lie to their stance. They remain remarkably silent. I have seen it happen again and again.

Remember Paula Jones and Juanita Broddrick when they accused Bill Clinton of sexual impropriety and rape, respectively? Crickets drowned out the NOW gang's protests. Those crickets got so loud, they scared the NOW gang back into their tent and those protests against Bill Clinton never took place. Instead, the NOW gang rallied behind Hilliary who stood by her man and used a staffer's flip 'bimbo eruption' label to tarnish the women who claimed her husband had abused them. Yeah, now there's a classic case of 'equality'.

What's sick-funnier still is that now, while Hilliary is out on the campaign trail, she's telling women that if they've been abused, they have the 'right' to be heard and believed. But that's okay, it's just another example of Hilliary's inability to tell the truth or be consistent.

When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her, the NOW protesters were out in force. She was a poor mistreated woman and he was an evil conservative. Never mind that testimony throughout the affair in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee showed that one of them was lying - it never became clear which, but Thomas took a seat on the Supreme Court and she is wherever she is.

More recently,I have been listening to all the cries about Donald Trump's 'unfair' treatment of women. And then, looking for something else, I came across this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-a-champion-of-women-his-female-employees-think-so/2015/11/23/7eafac80-88da-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html

Which says, in part:

But many women who have worked closely with Trump say he was a corporate executive ahead of his time in providing career advancement for women. While some say he could be boorish, his companies nurtured and pro­moted women in an otherwise male-dominated industry. Several women said they appreciated how Trump granted them entry to a new playing field.

“From the standpoint of being a woman, I just thought he was phenomenal,” said Sunshine, 74. “So supportive and encouraging. . . . He gave me the ropes, and I could either hang myself or prove myself.”

And then there's this from the Daily Caller:

Appearing on “CNN’s New Day” with Chris Cuomo, Michael Cohen, Trump’s general counsel and an executive vice president at Trump Organization, said that while the billionaire’s companies employ 57 percent men and 43 percent women, “there are more female executives at the Trump Organization than there are male.”

"And women who are similarly situated in positions similar to that of their male counterparts, are actually paid more,” Cohen said.

 http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/17/attorney-trump-companies-employ-more-female-execs-than-male-video/

Yet another one:

Heilbron did not return repeated requests for an interview, but Res and Sprague both described Trump as a supportive boss who gave them a shot in an industry that was particularly unwelcoming to women.

“When I first started at this, I’d find nasty drawings of myself on the job site, and men would try to intimidate me by peeing on the girders,” says Res of the years right around the time she met Trump.

Which makes it all the more striking, she says, that he hired her for his signature project, because he liked the way she stood up to the men when he was working for another builder. This was before his bodyguards, his bestselling books, and his comb-over, Res says, back when there were just six people in the entire Trump Organization, back when Trump drove his own limo to Res’ father’s funeral because the chauffeur was off that day. Overnight Res went from earning $25,000 as an assistant supervisor to $55,000 as vice president. She had never run a project before, but “he told me he knew I could” build Trump Tower, she says.

http://news.yahoo.com/whats-up-with-donald-trump-and-the-women-not-090043983.html

So here we have documentation that Trump treats his women employees fairly. He pays them comparably to and sometimes more than their male counterparts. He 'promoted women in an otherwise male-dominated industry'. So where's the problem? Is it because he also treats them equally as 'one of the guys'?

Apparently that is the problem because while they reaped the benefit of his even-handedness in his businesses, not all of his women employees appreciate his remarks or behavior. Barbara Res, one of the women quoted in the first and last article didn't appreciate it at all. Enough that she's voting for Hilliary (assuming that one doesn't get indicted).

Still, let's give credit where it's due. At a time when women in this country were scratching and clawing for every level upward toward 'equality', Trump was reaching down and lifting capable, qualified and able women up.

While women are screaming about how horribly Donald Trump treats women, they are demanding equality across the board while, at the same time, they're pushing a "women's agenda".

Now, come on, girls - which way do you want it? You cannot have it all ways - you have to pick one way and either continue whining when someone says 'boo' to you, or you have to grow a pair. So let's ask the foundational questions:

1) Do you want someone like Trump who has a proven track record of hiring, developing, nurturing and promoting women, and who treats them like an equal (one of the guys)?

2) Or, do you want some half-assed girly-man 'in touch with his feelings' who talks about equality but doesn't do a thing to move it forward?

Trump is not going to change just because you whine and cry. He is who he is and he is how he is. He's a guy. He embodies prototypical guy-ness - the locker room, jocular, crude and unapologetic guy-ness.

And that's just fine with me and with other grown-up women like me. I don't necessarily like what he says, and even if he said it to or about me it wouldn't faze me. Why? Because I am a woman. I am a big person, all grown up and I recognize that he's and ass and I'm not.

So you go on. If you cannot accept the man as he is, you go on ahead and crawl under the covers, suck your thumb, hug your teddy bear and cry yourself to sleep for the unfairness of it all.

Me? I'm going to keep on thinking he's an ass, a loud-mouth boor who hasn't a clue how to think before he speaks, and listening to all else he has to say because, while I don't like the behavior, I do like the man.

Best~
Philippa

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