I’m Not a Page in a Binder; I’m a Pawn in a Game of Badly Played Chess

The best thing about living in the future is that, within ten minutes of it being said in the debate on Tuesday night, a Tumblr site was created specifically for Governor Romney’s “Binders full of women.”

Let’s forget about the fact that he didn’t ask for those binders, they had to be foisted upon him by MASSGAP. Let’s not talk about the fact that, in spite of more than two decades worth of professional and executive level experience, Governor Romney seemingly couldn’t think of a single qualified female on his own. Let’s not even talk about the only thing that the Governor could think of when it came to equality in the workplace for women was making sure they made it home in time to cook dinner for their families every night. Because, you know, we can’t be let out of the house if our chores aren’t done.

What disturbs me most is that in the taking credit for hiring women for his administration, he bragged about having to go out and hunt them down.

Because there’s no way in hell a woman would have applied on her own, right? She had to wait to be invited. How many women did his hiring team pass over before the Governor had to step in and say “wait, where are all the boobies?” And what was the actual motivation for including them?

The facts have been checked and while he did eventually hire some chicks (AFTER being pressured, not before) not one of them filled a position that he deemed important. They were all relegated to lower level, lower activity and potentially lower paid positions. The important stuff, that was all left for the dudes. Because the penis-enhanced humans are SO MUCH BETTER at handling important endeavours than those bogged down with uteri, right?

It’s gross.

What’s grosser is that apparently, he holds the belief that we women can’t do anything for ourselves. We have to wait to be invited. We have to have permission. We have to sit idly by until we are asked specifically to speak or to act. And, worse, that we like it that way.

Why isn’t anybody else talking about this? We hear an awful lot about how the Governor hates women. That’s not true. You have to find someone valuable enough to think about before you can hate them. I doubt he actually thinks much about my gender at all.

Unless bragging about doing so will score him a few political points or cover his political ass.

Which, really, isn’t that almost worse?

I’m Not a Page in a Binder; I’m a Pawn in a Game of Badly Played Chess

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