Think the GOP "War on Women" is over? Emily's List would beg to differ.

Courtesy of TPM:  

A Friday memo by Jess McIntosh, the group's communication director, points to several off-the-wall statements made by Republican pols and candidates in the last two weeks that has "effectively re-opened the wound that caused the historic gender gap in 2012." 

A number of conservatives raised eyebrows for claiming that female breadwinners are antithetical to nature, that women "don't want" equal pay, that working mothers ruined the American education system and that "hormone levels created by nature" drive sexual assaults in the military. 

"It’s tempting to write these statements as outlier rhetoric, but this is what the current slate of Republican elected officials actually believe – and it’s backed up by the Republican Party’s priorities," notes McIntosh. "These aren’t just words, they’re a legislative agenda."

You know I may be classified as a traitor to my gender but I ALWAYS think it is a good idea to include women in traditional male dominated areas. And that includes getting more of them into Congress and the Senate.

I just feel that with more women involved we would be less likely to start unnecessary wars and spend our money on defense rather than social needs and education.

But I also think that having women around makes men less...what is the word I am looking for...stupid!

Now most of my employment history has been in occupations where women made up at least half if not the majority of my fellow employees, so I may see this somewhat differently than many of my male counterparts.

However I have worked in very male dominated workplaces as well, and I can tell you from experience that we are not at our best in that environment. 

I once worked at a car dealership where business lunches were conducted at a local strip club and female customers were leered at as if they had jut walked into an all male penitentiary instead of a place of business. The jokes and remarks bandied about in that environment would have made any self respecting woman storm out of there in disgust.

To put it bluntly the men were pigs.

However as times changed, and the first female car salespeople were brought in, as well as female parts store employees, things changed. The men were far more civilized, their jokes far less misogynist, and their attitudes far less Cro-Magnon.

So while I don't believe that having more female representatives in Washington will solve ALL of our problems, I have to say that it will undoubtedly help when it comes to addressing things like inequality, human rights, and many social issues that men simply do not feel connected to.