It’s funny to watch USGOV send women into places to serve in posts, best served by men. No Mexican general or admiral will give an American woman the time of day, unless they are receiving sexual favors. That applies to all of Latin America, all of Africa, The Middle East (with the possibly exception of Israel), all of Asia and the Asian Subcontinent, and Russia. The Fourth Estate
The term Fourth Estate (or fourth power) refers to the press, and news media, both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues.
I don’t have much in the way of praise for our current crop of journalists. Some of you may leap on me like sabertooth tigers on a wounded mastodon for generalizing. I’ve known journalists who are adrenalin junkies and are hot after the next big story. They live to report the story and do not want to BE THE STORY. Some of them become “war correspondents” and risk their lives to tell the story fairly.
But a lot of them are lazy bums, sexual deviates and charismatic charlatans who have never held an honest job in their lives. There are a lot of those same well-funded young people take liberal arts courses and receive their PhD in journalism studies so that they can teach it. Most flecks would resort to being bar stewards in knocking shops if they were fired from the paper or the university. I can’t change the truth.
Lawyers of today occupy positions that were taken by priests, shamans and necromancers in epochs past. Priests told potentates what was right and wrong. Lawyers tell people what is legal and illegal – in a world where “right” does not exist.
Wrap-Up
If you’re in trouble you call a cop, a doctor, a lawyer or a priest. Most people don’t call journalists. Not first anyway.
In the car biz I hired,and promoted, people who could get the job done. Only a handful of women lasted. The one's who didn't were a gigantic PITA. One I promoted is now a three term State Legislator. One of the hardest working people I've known, she was incapable of working a car deal without putting some kind of kink in the deal whether needed or not.
Can't say women were any bigger problems, just harder to fire when they were a problem. People working on a commission are basically independent contractors and not of the mentality of wage drones, bless their hearts.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that women aren't as smart or as hard working. It's just that the potential #me too accusation of anyone in the organization is not worth the trouble. No women, no trouble.
Picking the right people is key. Paying directly for performance yields better results.
I don't have a problem with anything you said. Maybe it's just me.
I was stationed on Okinawa when Kuwait happened. They asked for volunteers to go to Rhyad or however it is spelled. I did not volunteer because of how they view women. Simple enough to me.
They women who did volunteer and go, came back changed. I feel for them. They were somewhat upset that I didn't go, but I was not.
Smart move, LindaG
> Most people [when in trouble] don't call journalists.
Of course not. They're too busy live-streaming themselves on their phones. Who needs the journalists?
@LindaG: One of my best friends is genetically Pashtun and a cultural Muslim, in the sense that she fasts during Ramadan and keeps to halal meats. Otherwise she is entirely Western (and a huge Hillary devotee) in attitude, dress and behavior. Her dad is too ill to go on the hajj, and mom wants to make the hajj for him as his proxy (hajj al-badal). However, as a Muslim woman, mom cannot do this unaccompanied because she cannot travel about The Magic Kingdom unaccompanied by competent (male) authority. My friend was on a tear about the stupidity of this. I just nodded sympathetically rather than point out the obvious. After about a minute or two my friend said, "I know what you're thinking." :-)
Islam hasn't changed that much since its inception and the leadership is not much changed since the illiterate pederast led his hoards on jihad back around 600 AD. The values of the faith remain rooted to norms in 600 AD.
600 AD was not a shining moment of enlightenment in the Middle East, in Europe, in Asia or in the Americas, where Aztec priests were carving hearts out of living chests and offered as sacrifice to the Sun god.
Why anyone would want to reenact the prejudice, brutality, cruelty or xenophobia of Mohammed in our modern world defies my understanding. But they do.
They don't line up to get their hearts cut out on the tops of pyramids in Mexico for shits and giggles these days. Why would they embrace Islam?
I don't understand either; but they do.
And I feel for you, Mike_C. Ugh on Killary.
"If you are in trouble call a cop,..
Uh, no.
There is no human condition so terrible that the arrival of a police officer cannot make it worse.
Irish Proverb
It depends on the cop.
I don't know. A lot of people call the police.
I call Colt 1911
Oh yea, and don't forget the backhoe.
The backhoe is critical.
I like the 2nd infographic, sound maternal advice. Then there's journalists.
They can be a hard and unpleasant crew though I'll wager the monkey on lawyers being worse. Of course priests are awesome.