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What President Trump has done for women

I'm not a fan of ruling by Executive Order, but it can indicate a direction if not illegal, just as the orders can be undone by the next president of a different political bent—as in DACA and the Paris “Accord.” Just how evil is the Trump record that women who were interviewed on the Jan. 20 march spoke of (when coherent)? They were having these marches all over the country, even in little Rockford. The were billed as addressing women’s issues (like MeToo), but in fact they were hate trump events.

"Over his first 100 days in 2017, Trump signed two executive orders that support women in business: the Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act, which encourages entrepreneurial programs that recruit and support women, and the Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers and Innovators and Explorers Act, which directs NASA to encourage women and girls to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to pursue careers in aerospace." (reported in Forbes, April 27, 2017)

This in addition to using his influence in a World Bank plan to encourage women in business. And all those raises, bonuses, promotions, stock sharing in the private sector due to the tax cut. They went to women, as well as fattening their pension plans.  A small pension is a problem for women who often do not have the longevity in the employment, and no one can live a normal retirement on Social Security alone, as the sugar daddy federal government pretends.

Women have traditionally voted Democratic, especially single women, because they want something like spousal assistance and safety net, without the cooking, cleaning and snoring. They are willing to go along with the abuses to their liberty in order to have the "security."

Why were women marching on January 20?

I had lunch with my friend Nancy at Houlihan’s today and on the way home turned on the radio.  Dennis Prager (talk radio) runs 12-3 p.m. and had been asking for comments about the Women's March of Jan. 20. Interesting—although I didn’t hear it all.

One woman said she is an artist, and she and her husband the only conservatives among their social set and have to be quiet about it. Dennis observed they are "Marranos" (Jews who pretended to be Catholics during the Inquisition). Most of the women she knows went to the march. Dennis' first question was, "Are they happy people." She thought a bit, and said, "Well, they're very well educated, and very deep." "That's not what I asked," he said. "Are they happy?" "No. For some reason they believe they are victims." "Of what?" he asked. "I don't know, and they don't either--I've asked but they turn on me if I ask for facts."  And then she went on.  “Most are not married, or if they are, they don’t have children.”  I think there has been research that single, Democratic women look to the government to take care of them since they don’t have a spouse or children.

Another woman called in who had been on public transportation in DC and watched large numbers of women headed for the march. She observed and heard the obscenities and the gross signs they were carrying. "How can they object to Trump being crude," she asked, "when they are behaving so badly in public?"

It's International Women's Day what are the issues?

Some women will be marching today against President Trump. 

• We know it isn't for the right to vote, because many have that and don't vote;
• we know it isn't for higher minimum wage--only 4% of hourly workers earn that;
• we know it isn't for higher education because they outnumber men in college; 
• we know it isn't for protection of Title IX because they believe biological sex doesn't matter and anyone can be a woman even a 6' 300 lb. male wrestler;
•  we know it isn't for higher salaries because most work for the government in some capacity either as teachers ...(average hourly wage about $60 according to BLS) or mid-level bureaucrats in local or state or federal government and they are paid more than in the private sector; 
• we know it isn't for freedom of religion or the right to own a gun because they want people to keep religion private and inside churches and want the 2nd amendment to go away; 
• we know it isn't for life from womb to tomb because they are pro-abortion; 
• we know it isn't to stop hunger because only 25% of Americans are "normal" BMI; 
• we know it isn't to crash the glass ceiling because women are free to make choices for career track; 
• we know it isn't to stop international slave trade in women for sex because they want to do battle against 18th century slave trade.  President Bush freed more Afghan women than Lincoln freed slaves.

So that only leaves the obvious since for the last eight years they just went to work, accepted the paycheck, met friends at the bar to discuss traffic, guys, the kids or grandchildren and nothing is different today under President Trump. Only the paranoid rumors swirling the internet have had a change of names. Again, what are the issues?

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

https://www.thenation.com/article/striking-on-international-womens-day-is-not-a-privilege/

The issues in 2013 first year of Obama's 2nd term. But no march on Washington.  https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/03/international-womens-day-2013/100470/

March 8--a day without women

Why is the left afraid to investigate the differences in wages among women? For the obvious reasons--we all know the answer. Career choice, education, experience, skill and geography determine salaries in the USA. For men and women.  Both of us use an all female medical practice. I have no idea if they purposely keep out men (except for patients), but there's a high level of estrogen when you walk in. I think I did see a male tech several years ago, but I he's moved on.

And guess what? There is a vast difference in pay among the 

1) female staffer who moves the sliding window, takes our insurance cards and hands us a clipboard, and 
2) the tech who checks our weight, blood pressure and types notes into the computer, and 
3) the doctor who rushes in for 5 minutes and tries to find out what's going on since the last visit.

I'm guessing at income--about $25,000 for the first woman who is a high school graduate, $35,000 for the second who had 6 months of technical school, and about $200,000 for the third woman who had 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school and 3-7 years of residency before I saw her in that office. Where's the rage, and who should be marching on the Day without women? Woman one, two or three?

I asked a pleasant young clerk at the ophthalmologist office what her training was for the field, and she said none, she had a degree (something in the humanities) and this was the job she found when she and her husband moved to the area. Which category will she go in?   That practice is almost all male doctors and female staff.

Looking back on Alan Bloom looking back

In Alan Bloom’s book, "The Closing of the American Mind” (1987)--a book that began as an essay and became a best seller--he discusses how the meaning and acts of sex and sexuality changed between the 50s and 60s and the 80s, and that the college students he knew saw a sexual arrangement as convenient, but not lasting or a commitment. “They are roommates with sex and utilities included in the rent.” (p. 106). 

With the looming strike of women (they are angry about the election of Trump and mad at the Electoral College) and the January 21 Women’s March in DC, I think he missed his mark in thinking the “rights” push was over.  It’s not over because it's never over for the Left which needs a victim, and over 50% of the population are women and 57% of the college graduates since the 90s are women.  For the Left  no matter what progress women, homosexuals or transsexuals make, there’s always a new victim to be found which can be folded into the original goal.  The push to normalize sex with children is the most recent one, as polygamy or polyandry will just be too boring and acceptable since sex with adults has lost all meaning. Relativism, Bloom said, makes students conformist and incurious. Their supposed open-mindedness closes their actual minds. And that continues as the students of the 80s are the parents and professors of today's college students.

Bloom writes about relationships in the mid-80s: “Men and women are now used to living in exactly the same way and studying exactly the same things and having exactly the same career expectations.  No man would think of ridiculing a female premed or prelaw student, or believe that these are fields not proper for women, or assert that a woman should put family before career.  The law schools and medical schools are full of women, and their numbers are beginning to approach their proportion in the general population.  . . The battle here has been won. . . They do not need the protection of NOW (p. 107)  And he goes on to note that not only do his students have nothing to learn about sex from their parents, but also believe they have nothing to learn from old literature or history  [and I would add the Bible, but he doesn’t] so when they have problems with relationships, they have nothing to go back to.

Although Bloom's book was a best seller, other academics became alarmed--he was called a racist, sexist, homophobe (although he was probably gay said a close friend after Bloom died), a Nazi--well, you know the routine.  He was practically Trump!  After 200 reviews of the book, the academics began having conferences about it!  Which makes me think, maybe I should put it back on the shelf and choose another title to withdraw.  Since I've blogged about this a year ago (at my book blog) I'm not making much progress reducing the crowded bookshelves.

Louder with Crowder joins the women's march

http://www.dailywire.com/news/12739/hilarious-watch-steven-crowder-infiltrate-womens-amanda-prestigiacomo#!

He interviewed the women he marched with, but most had no idea why they were there, except to protest. . . something.

No one questioned his burly frame, muscles and wig, because that might be transphobic, or something. 

A millennial comments on the Women's March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRJ-9BKk0mA

http://www.theconservativemillennialblog.com/