Doctors and Bosses

I've had just as many bad doctors and bosses who were women as I've had who were men. I tried relying on the stereotype that just to be in those positions, the women had to be really good at their jobs. That did not turn out to be the case. Yes, I am a feminist, and yes, there have been some really crappy women in positions of authority in my life. It was very disappointing.

Margaret Thatcher

A balance of women, say 51% of people in power, would certainly help, though, even if Phyllis Schlafly would disagree.

What are "sissies?"

remembering that

Remembering that with the Putin/Maga crowd, every accusation is a confession, ... Secretary Clinton got 3 million more votes than the Sneaker Salesman. Everytime some vote skullduggery in the last presidential election comes to light, it turns out it was some SS crewmember cheating for its team. They are Still screaming that "The election was stolen." I believe, considering President Gore, that they know what they are talking about.

I've heard variations

I've heard variations of "Muscovy or Moscovia" to describe Putin's permutation, as opposed to the rest of the Russians. It seems that a lot of the different areas are seeing some negatives in being attached to the Moscow/Saint Petersburg rulers.

So, conceivably ...

A "municipality or county" could still run an advertisement, "Earn up to $1000/month stuffing envelopes at home!" Sort of pulling yourself up by your own BootStraps ...

crickets again

It seems to me that each chore can be done by either person, half of the time. Except breastfeeding .... but if expressed milk has been stored, Dad can step right in there, too. I got myself (woman) a pint-sized chain saw. It meant that I could do a lot of those jobs that I thought that I wasn't strong enough to do. I didn't actually use, that saw though, by the time I got it I was so used to being told that I couldn't do it, that I was scared of it. So, I hired a woman hand, and she used it. There are a lot of ways to get muscle-requiring work done with less muscle, like keeping one end of a heavy hay bale on the ground. You can still move it, and get it up to the third level on a stack. My wasband used to sit on the tractor using the idea that only a man can handle this beast, while the kids and I did all of the actual work on the ground. I didn't raise the obvious issue, because he wouldn't help at all if he couldn't just sit on his butt when that was one of the jobs. When cleaning out the barn, he'd appropriate filling the big wheel barrows, because he could do it faster than we could. That left us struggling with the humongous loads to get them out to the dump area, while he shovel-leaned waiting for us to get back. Again, my rationale for tolerating it was that I should be happy he was out there helping at all. This is how the anger builds bit by bit. Just because one gets away with this poor behavior, just because one can gaslight and talk a good story about this poor behavior, it sure doesn't mean we "share alike in the chores." If no one helps me to learn how to work on the car, or actively ridicules and humiliates me when I try to buck the trend, then later, I might be tempted to say, "No, dear, since you're fixing the car, I'll run the vacuum." But in order to share those undesirable over and over again chores, we all need to be given the opportunities and obligations to learn to, and to practice, doing both the sometimes chores and the again and again chores. As an afterthought, it sure wouldn't hurt if good strong tools that fit a medium to small glove size hand were readily available, not necessarily in pink, purple, or turquoise.

They decide amongst themselves, well before the "election."

I was both astonished and then rapidly said to myself, "Of course they do." It took several elections with no opponent on the ballot for Sheriff (Oregon counties), and then finally a couple of newspaper (we used to have those) articles that explained that the old sheriff would resign early, which would open up the spot for an appointee, who would become the incumbent. The deadlines for registering for the election were futzed around with ... if you didn't do something, something, before somewhen, you couldn't be on the ballot ...
I'm not sure how they manage to keep any opposition off the ballot completely, but they do. The same with elected judges. You have a choice in the election, of the one person on the ballot.

other marginalized people

I like that you pointed out that not all marginalized people get the concept that we all do better when we help each other. It was eye-opening to me when I was younger to watch members of different marginalized groups point out how wrong it was to be mistreated themselves, and then turn right around and treat members of other marginalized groups poorly.

* ball sacks