{"id":12676,"date":"2020-03-07T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atheopaganism.wordpress.com\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2020-03-07T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T08:16:22","slug":"it-is-long-past-time-for-women-god-damn-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/?p=12676","title":{"rendered":"It Is Long Past Time for Women, God Damn It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I voted for Elizabeth Warren for US President.<\/p>\n<p>She was clearly the smartest, most prepared, most compassionate and sincere and\u2014yes, I&#8217;ll say it\u2014most progressive candidate in the race. She really <em>gets<\/em> poverty. She gets bigotry. She gets intersectionality.<\/p>\n<p>She gets it.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t perfect, and she&#8217;s made mistakes. Who hasn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>But Elizabeth Ann Warren is an educated, passionate, articulate, knowledgeable woman. And that, America simply could not forgive.<\/p>\n<p>I am sickened.<\/p>\n<p>I work in the nonprofit sector, and I have worked under a number of women. And I would characterize most of them as exceptional leaders with competency, empathy, compassion, and focus, who nonetheless had to be twice as good and twice as prepared as a man would have to be in order to get to where they had climbed.<\/p>\n<p>I am ready, America. I was ready for the most qualified person in the race to win\u00a0<em>last<\/em> time, and the Presidency was stolen from her by foreign meddling and Republican vote suppression.<\/p>\n<p>I want more women in power. LOTS more women.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it will be different.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the current sausage party in Washington\u2014this neverending shitshow led by the most toxic male living on the planet today\u2014cannot be made much worse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been thousands of years. Centuries since a bunch of asshole men swept into this continent slaughtering and raping and enslaving and destroying in the name of money.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been long enough.<\/p>\n<p><em>It is time for women. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is long past time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted for Elizabeth Warren for US President. She was clearly the smartest, most prepared, most compassionate and sincere and\u2014yes, I&#8217;ll say it\u2014most progressive candidate in the race. She really gets poverty. She gets bigotry. She gets intersectionality. She gets it. She wasn&#8217;t perfect, and she&#8217;s made mistakes. Who hasn&#8217;t? But Elizabeth Ann Warren is an educated, passionate, articulate, knowledgeable woman. And that, America simply could not forgive. I am sickened. I work in the nonprofit sector, and I have worked under a number of women. And I would characterize most of them as exceptional leaders with competency, empathy, compassion, and focus, who nonetheless had to be twice as good and twice as prepared as a man would have to be in order to get to where they had climbed. I am ready, America. I was ready for the most qualified person in the race to win\u00a0last time, and the Presidency was stolen from her by foreign meddling and Republican vote suppression. I want more women in power. LOTS more women. I believe it will be different. Certainly the current sausage party in Washington\u2014this neverending shitshow led by the most toxic male living on the planet today\u2014cannot be made much worse. It&#8217;s been thousands of years. Centuries since a bunch of asshole men swept into this continent slaughtering and raping and enslaving and destroying in the name of money. It&#8217;s been long enough. It is time for women. It is long past time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}