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Respectfully, I disagree. Gender does matter and commands respect for differences intended to be appreciated and create a sum greater than the parts.

I, for one, believe this is the great work always intended for women. Our hearts always believe in the equation 1+1=3!

Salud, Elizabeth!

Unita all! šŸ—½

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BRAVA, Christine! Right on!! We WOMEN bring our lived experiences to the table where, otherwise, our particular concerns arenā€™t seen in laws, policies, & funding (repro rights, maternal health, childcare, equal wages, VAWA issues, etc.). We are wrongly rendered invisible because ā€œgender doesnā€™t matterā€ (ha!). Tired of women being shoehorned into The Toxic Male Paradigm into order to walk the halls of power. Also, how about the reverse idea to those who love to raise the exceptional negative woman (e.g., Palin) to claim gender is irrelevant ā€” Why should it matter (and it does matter in practice) that there should be men in power when weā€™ve had male leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Pol Pot, Nixon, Putin, Trump, et al.? Look deeper at the person ā€” and know that male aggression & violence are real things to account for and not ignore. Why do most men get a pass on negativity when they reach for power but women do not (see, e.g., Hillary Clinton)? Why are men presumed leaders but not women, who need to continually knock down barriers? Tired of the ā€œI look past genderā€ ā€” itā€™s like the racist ā€œAll Lives Matterā€ crap, as if all are treated equal (not!).

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