Leading Without an Apron, Sugar or Spice, by Donald Jeffries

How are the women who are out there out-masculining the men doing running the world? From Donald Jeffries at donaldjeffries.substack.com:

The reign of the formerly fairer sex

The other day, there was a rumble in Congress. A real rumble. What has been called the Ghettosburg Address. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a comment about Jasmine Crockett’s false eyelashes, AOC predictably sprung to her defense (AOC is obligated to side with all POCs), and then Crockett belittled Greene’s looks.

It was an unprecedented instance of classlessness. One imagines that, even when Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by the cane of Senator Preston Brooks in 1856, there was still some kind of twisted decorum involved. It is doubtful that Brooks chided Sumner with, “Baby girl, I don’t play,” as AOC did, with a laughable attempt to gain street credibility. It was too early in history for those gender fluid references, anyhow. The country was young, with only two genders. Whatever their faults, the Congress then had no member speaking fluent Ebonics. What was even more striking about the Ghettosburg Address was the fact that no male colleague attempted to intervene. None dared call it Idiocracy. This is a trend throughout American society now. Men don’t try to stop what used to be called cat fights. They’re probably thinking of all those females beating up all those males onscreen.

Also this week, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker created a firestorm with his remarks during a commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic institution. Butker proudly expressed his own strong Catholic faith, and declared that it was fine for women to “take pride in homemaking.” The NFL sharply attacked his comments. The same NFL that celebrates genuine thugs who’ve been charged with multiple violent crimes, more often than not against women. Basically, the “controversy” revolved around him saying that cooking, cleaning, and raising kids was nothing for a woman to be ashamed of, as well as him not embracing the LGBTQ+ movement. As recently as thirty years ago, no one would have batted an eye at his comments. Despite coach Andy Reid’s surprising show of support, Butker will be lucky to avoid being “cancelled.”

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