The Betrayal of Women, by Women

There is a lot of talk today about the "Glass Ceiling." I've been in business long enough to know it's real. I also know sometimes women are treated as "eye candy."

However, I am so old that I can remember the 1950's when few women worked; it was not viewed as politically correct for a woman to work outside the home. A woman's role was almost as bad as a child's: "Be seen and not heard."

The late 1960's and early 1970's found women overtly battling for some modicum of equality and, little by little they have made gains.

Since that time women have proven they can be effective mothers and at the same time be an effective employee. Further, they have proven their capabilities with respect to running major corporations.

Society began to take notice and our public schools became the recipients of Title IX which brought young girls into sports. Today it is amazing the physical prowess women and girls display.

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat or, something in between, I think you would agree that a woman could be president. I personally think Condoleezza Rice has done more to keep our country moving than President Bush; she has shown great courage with a weak foreign policy.

Now, we have a female vice-presidential candidate. Perhaps you don't like her. Everyone has a right to like whom they want, after all, it is America, right?

I've left a couple links to articles I've written. The prowess of women and the gains they have fought so hard for, make it all the more difficult for me to understand the treatment Sarah Palin has gotten from many women. Again, I would refer you to my previous articles.

However, it isn't just the attack on Palin that has me confused; it is the actions of women who get the spotlight.

Whoopi Goldberg uses her publicity to make the most ridiculous statements a woman could make. Sandra Bernhard sells her soul for a filthy mouth.

But take people who are supposed to have a little more class like Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Ann Curry who consistently eschew their honorable positions; their opportunity for impact to try and get interviewees to say something spicy, to elicit embarrassing remarks and to trap people, how classy. Is this what women have fought so hard to achieve?

Ann Curry in most any interview will wait for an opening to try and exploit a comment.

Award-winning journalist Sawyer has picked who she'll be tough with and lenient with. As an example, she recently let Katie Holmes off the hook to the chagrin of her employer.

Oprah Winfrey's complete sabotage of Sarah Palin as a female candidate is shameful as is the views overall representation of womanhood.

I guess, as a white male, I thought that there would be a higher road taken in an election where a woman and black were first involved.

It seems like women have done all they can to disparage a woman who made it in, and, it seems like Obama has found a way to run one of the least satisfying campaigns possible.

People from the electorate have finally gotten what they have always said they wanted; women, particularly, are shooting themselves in the foot.

References:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1049854/sandra_bernard_uses_vulgarity_religious.html?cat=9
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1047229/sarah_palins_rating_improves_despite.html?post=true&cat=9#comments