DEI hires was the topic. I was kinda glad when MMCB and I moved on from her friends who are slowly trickling into memory care facilities (note that they are quite a bit older than yer fav-o-rite blahgger and MMCB is not a memory care candidate).

At least DEI hires STARTED the topic. It then devolved into how some of our fellow citizens seem to be trying to devalue women’s contributions to our society. I know most folks don’t believe this but there are quiet little rumblings about what women should be allowed to do in life. I don’t think we’re going the way of Afghanistan any time soon but then again…

What do you do with your life if you were a child like me, who at three years of age, often sat around contemplating the concept of infinity? It was many years later that I equated the act of folding a piece of paper in half and half again until I couldn’t fold it any more with infinity but, friends, that is what it was. How many young afghan girls are doing similar things?

And then, until music took me over (for a while), MATH was my favorite subject. I was always working ahead in the math book or (later on) working through an ancient analytical geometry textbook of my dad’s because I could take ONE elective senior year (high school) and I chose music theory, knowing that my dad’s textbook was available for me to study on my own. I was going out with my second high school boyfriend at the time, a cute and gallant college sophomore from town, and being his girlfriend somehow gave me the confidence to not hide my geekiness any more. But why did I think I needed a man for that? I do not know. [delete complicated thoughts]

So. Are all women destined only to be wives and mothers? I mean I LOVE being a wife and mother but I am so much more. Male or female, people are people. Why denigrate a person who at the age of three sat in her bedroom contemplating the concept of infinity because she’s female? Intelligent “geeky” women have helped us get to space, crack enemy codes, you name it. PEOPLE can do all kinds of things. It doesn’t matter what sex they are. And that is not a totally binary thing anyway despite what MAGA thinks.

I was not a DEI hire (I don’t think). One of my community college profs (male) hooked me up with an internship (as part of a class) with my company, an internship I really didn’t want. I’m pretty sure he thought I was the best match for this corporate job. As it turned out I hit it off with my then boss (male) and after three months, I was hired full-time. I think they liked that I could do the job and WRITE, which is an important part of my job.

DEI hire? I don’t really know but I have worked with many women and men, all kinds of people throughout the years. We have always had a respectful workplace culture and we get the job done. Who cares what we look like or where we are from?

This was a higgledy-piggledy brain dump and may or may not have made any sense. Lots more thoughts percolating to be dumped some other day. Or not.

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