Have you really thought about it?
Consider this mess in the light of How You Would Like the World To Be. What kind of America do these conservatives want, anyway?
And: why are the police and fire unions staying out of this mess/immune to the current attacks on unions?
Could there be a link here?
YES!
Police and fire workers are mostly men. Teachers are mostly women. This whole hoo-ha is partly a gender-based attack on women's work and pay. Some conservatives would like to stuff women back into the kitchen (and bedroom) and get us out of workplaces.
This is nothing new. Many years ago a young male student of mine (I was giving him technical training in the workplace) told me that the Big Boss had told him "We're going to have all the women where they should be - putting things on the shelves for YOU and the other guys." In other words, Big Boss did NOT like having women in responsible jobs! Never mind our training and education, our intelligence, our commitment, never mind any of that! Then as soon as this student graduated (he was overbearing and obnoxious, BTW), Big Boss gave him a nice job. (I wouldn't have hired him at all.) Big Boss was also a sexual harasser - any surprise there? (Oddly, his wife was a very highly educated specialist in a fairly elite field.)
Yes, this happened in Wisconsin. That is a rather backward place in some ways, SORRY! I lived there for a long time and I know.
So back to the current mess. The governor of Wisconsin wants to throw the women and children overboard first. MEN should have jobs! MEN who work only for private corporations! I suppose the women are supposed to be dependent on the men. The ones who don't get married can live in little lean-tos attached to the houses of their married sisters, and do ironing and sewing for their meal scraps.
Pfui!
Go check out Rachel Maddow's rant on the Wisconsin mess at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7e4bj5rrd8
Though she has a powerful message, she omitted the gender-attack aspect of the problem.
So I'm pointing it out.
Though she has a powerful message, she omitted the gender-attack aspect of the problem.
So I'm pointing it out.
