QUARANTINE LIFE: CURRENT EVENTS

Thank goodness for those who won’t just go along to get along. 

I listened to Congresswoman AOC and smiled. It’s not easy being in places where you’re not wanted—not because of anything you’ve done, but because your presence and input challenges, interrupts, and exposes an accepted pattern of corruption, inactivity, prejudice, ignorance, and ineptitude. If Americans didn’t know before, we know now: Leadership matters. Daily we’re seeing the consequences of choosing and abiding leaders without considering character, moral fiber, and personal politics. What an individual truly thinks and feels can’t help but affect their policies and decision making. How men in leadership view girls and women MATTERS.

It is difficult, frustrating, but not impossible to function in an arena where truth is optional, souls are for sale, and women are disrespected, hated, disregarded, misunderstood, and demeaned. There’s a difference between being quiet and being a doormat. It simply requires self worth and commitment to purpose to manage when the culture of a workplace tolerates your presence, benefits from your labor and expertise, and wants your consent, but not your opinion or principles.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the girliest, syrupy-sweetest, nicest, most docile woman on Earth. The minute you dare speak up for yourself or others; the minute you refuse to accept nonsense, and call out the discrepancies, inequities, inconsideration, and errors you see, and refuse to accept, suddenly you’re labeled a problem, difficult, uncooperative, shrill, bipolar, mean, rigid, unladylike...You’re spearheading a coup. You don’t even have to get loud; just question something concerning you, follow proper channels, play by the rules, know and assert your rights, and suddenly you’re... well... you know. 
Speak up anyway. Although words do hurt, how you respond to what some people think and say about you can be mitigated by simply considering the source. A mere look might inform you that their opinion should be the last thing you care about. 

If being a bitch now means you don’t put up with inhumanity, incompetence, mediocrity, injustice, disrespect, or spineless, compromised colleagues, but you endeavor to actually do your job, and do it well, then...