2019 Federal Election

[jeffster]

Of course, but certain things mean you are guaranteed NOT to have this experience.  Again, this comes from aggregate. If EVERYONE on your senior management team is a man, then nobody on that team has had experience tracking their period, thus are going to have a blindspot to that need.  If half your team is women, there's a very good chance that someone will have had such an experience.

I am really not sure if makes that much of a difference.

I follow this lady on Twitter who's a real tech guru and is a writer for a major magazine. Some company had posted something on Twitter and I gather they were following each other. The lady took offence it what was written, and was actually shocked that they'd "tweet" what they did (it could be misconstrued as sexual in nature, encouraging rape) . They ended up having a conversation, and it turned out that this business is ran by women, not men like she thought (as only a guy would say such a thing) and the tweet was written by their head of social media, a woman.

Two things I learned: Women don't know themselves as well as we (men) think. Women can be just as nasty and obscene as men, but they're better at creating double meanings (or trying to hide the undertones).

Now as for the period thing: I was married and I knew when my wife was going to have her period even before she did. Just subtle changes that only happened at that time. I remember she was worried that she was pregnant (she didn't want kids at the time) and I am like "Don't worry, you're starting you period in about 3 hours." I was off by about 20 minutes. But here is the thing, every woman is different when it comes to their period. So having females on the team doesn't mean they understand each other. They understand they get *might* periods, that's about it. Each will react to their periods differently and they don't understand why other women behave the way they do (from a woman's mouth "She's such a BITCH on her period"). In my case, getting a medium regular along with allergy pills and a Tylenol was good enough. Nothing else worked -- not chocolate, not flowers (except two days before the period), etc. Some women become super sexual, others don't want to be touched. Forrest Gump would say "Women are like a box of chocolate..."

I guess what I am trying to say is that everyones experience is different -- be it being homeless, being a person of colour or a minority or a new Canadian, being a male or female, being gay, straight, bi-sexual, confused, being a teen, a tween, toddler or elderly person, someone with perfect health or serious health issues (we'll say genetic), abled body or not. There are so many dynamics in play that we might even realize it or see it.

For example, you look at someone privileged like Donald Trump -- he's the most thin skinned person on the planet. Yet other privileged people would never act the way he did (Warren Buffet, for example). You also see disabled people, and they'll get all active into sports that they can do, or busy finding work that they can do, while others in apparent identical shape stay indoors and expect everyone to feel sorry for them. Really, how was it that a black American male was able to become President of the worlds most powerful (and probably racist) country in the world? Someone like Trump won his election because he spoke at a level that was easy for his worshippers to understand. Obama, in my opinion, came across as a genuine gentleman, at he was able to blur those colour lines so well that at the end of the day, people didn't see Obama as black, they saw him, mostly, as a true American that loved his country.

For me, though I really don't involved myself in elections, nor do I exercise my right to vote, it comes down to personality of the individual. Most importantly, their honesty. I guess you could say; would you trust this person to take care of your kid for a week? And really give that some thought. Of our current roster (Ford and Trudeau) I wouldn't want my kids around either of them. I don't think I'd want them around our previous premier (Wynne) but I'd be ok with Harper and McGuinty (and Martin going further back).