Because Women Can’t Think For Themselves

I am not against organizations being partisan. Partisanship makes the world turn, even if sometimes in reverse. What I am opposed to is claiming to be non-partisan while clearly acting in a partisan manner. What I am opposed to are thinly-veiled attempts to trick women into supporting a cause that, under the terms of the solution offered, is clearly partisan by prefacing the roll-out of that solution with disclaimers of it being a “non-partisan issue”.

A non-partisan issue does not automatically a non-partisan cause make. I assure you.

And frankly I don’t appreciate the insinuation that the mis-use of such a disclaimer makes; that women cannot think for themselves. Do these people, these organizations think we won’t notice that they’ve come up with a partisan solution to a non-partisan issue? And if they do are they really pro-woman? Do they really have a place championing the advancement of women over the course of the coming decades? If they don’t think we’re even capable of seeing through such blatant lies as these can they be trusted to play a part in convincing the public at large that we deserve a seat in the boardroom, the Senate, the Oval Office?

Work Life Balance is a non-partisan issue. Solving it with government mandates and federal policy is as partisan as a solution gets.

Increasing representation by women in boardrooms, governmental agencies and elected public positions is a non-partisan issue. Legislating quotas to make that happen is partisan. Yes, even if we call them “quo-tah-s.

Call me what you will, but I have a dream that one day women will be united not via twisted campaigns veiled by lies and deceit but by the true issues at their core. I have a dream not that non-partisan issues can be solved in partisan ways but that partisan women can work together in non-partisan cooperation. I have a dream that organizations and individuals who claim to champion women will, one day, do just that — without undermining their own ethics in an effort to get the job done now instead of right.

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