Shhh! I'm a girl Woman...

Suffagettes New York Circa 1921

Typically women don't...

Most women don't know how to...

Women often can't...

See? Men don't do that. Only you women do that.

How often do you hear words like these at work, in the store, at church, even in your home? (Well they don't say them in our home-sweet-home within my hearing if they want to live to see the dawn.)

I celebrate many of the differences between men and women, I do. Really. I read romance for crying out loud. You can't celebrate men and women more than that, can you? Anyway, as my pal LB likes to say, "I love teh men". Of course she usually follows it with something steamy about man-love, but it works here and I'm stealing it.

My point is, I get a mite squinchy when it comes to comments that are subtlety, or not so subtlety, deprecating. You know the ones I'm talking about. Those sneaky treacherous words handed to you couched as a compliment when they are actually an insult to you and your gender?

Gender bias.

Speaking of stereotypes...and we are. This is from the Austrailian Tax Office site.

Did you shudder when you saw those words...gender bias? I'm hardly militant on the issue. Seriously. I'm not. And, I have to admit, there is a marked difference on how my sons view women and women's roles and men who are in power and in charge of a certain age and generation. I'm hopeful that the male attitude will continue to improve with each succeeding generation.

Cuz, ya know, otherwise I might get charged with a capital crime and have to get fitted with this new wardrobe...

Just sayin'.

EQUALITY NOW

HAVE YOU JOINED YET?

IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT.

IF NOT NOW WHEN?

EQUALITY NOW.

Take a Look

Today's post at WEB PETALS is one of the reasons I listed it as a blog that makes me think. Take a look. Here's the link to the original post on Joss Whedon's site too.

Inch by inch...