What's Our Problem with "Strong" Women?
We saw it in the 1960s. Being anti-war or anti-segregation was hip, cool, socially acceptable. Being anti-sexual discrimination made one a "bra burner", "frigid", a "man hater", a "castrating" you know what. Civil rights activists were lauded. Feminists were targets of ridicule. Leftist women were expected to shut up and put out---they would get their "equality" through a kind of trickle down effect.
Why are we, as a society, so scared of strong uppity women?
http://www.sott.net/article/149529-Control-of-Uppity-Women-Behind-Witchcraft-Accusations
I found this interesting article online. In Europe in the Middle Ages, women 1) who could read and write, 2) who expressed their spirituality by being active in the Church or as mystics 3) who expressed political opinions who 4) wielded power and 5) who worked outside the home were more likely to be accused of being witches. Even their attempts to promote the Church (which was conducting the Inquisition) were viewed as being deviant, suspect. If they looked like they were trying to do good deeds which took them outside the home and into the public world, it was all an act. They had devious, hidden motives. Joan of Arc--who claimed to hear the voice of the angles--had to be a witch. Only a witch would attempt to lead a nation. Only a witch would have that kind of political power. A woman with political power was dangerous. A woman who could move people with a spiritual message was dangerous---
I look around at my country now, and I see a lot more of the same.
Don't be afraid of uppity women. Women with political power are not necessarily doing it for "Satan" or in order to denigrate men or because they have penis envy. Women with political power are not freaks. Some of them are concerned citizens who feel compelled to help others. Some of them are very good at what they do.
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you have the right to dictate how "they should pipe up with their opinion". 
That's kind of like you get to speak for them. Interesting.
say that someone does not speak for them. I tend to stay out of groups except for a couple that I host and the two I have been blocked from so I am not aware of what goes on in those groups you listed . We all speak for ourselves. 
I'm not going to argue it. If a comment is offensive it should be alerted.
(Or vernacular like that.) You are being told that not only are you wrong, but you are rude for disagreeing. 
And I should watch how I phrase what I say. Fucking ridiculous. No one in my life has ever told me I should let someone tell me how to speak or that they can speak for me.
Particularly on issues relating to gender.
Cheers, Autumn! 
Your kind words mean a lot to me. 
I haven't seen any, actually.
I've known people who are unable to go anywhere or decide anything on their own- both men and women. It's not at all uncommon. Loads of people have told me they'd never have the guts to do some of the things I have. Especially women traveling alone, that's one that kind of bums me out that people would be nervous to do.
Memory loss is hard to deal with.
make a demand like that unless I'd done a rational cost/benefit calculus in doing so, including getting fired as a result, because when I get to the point where 1) I have to talk "mommy talk" to my boss, and 2) I can deal with getting fired as a result, then either I've already found another job, or else I'm so miserable, the worst case scenario of getting unemployment benefits until I can find something else is an option light years better for me emotionally than continuing to work for an abusive boss.
I don't really have a preference for male or female bosses. I've had wonderful bosses of both genders - the bad ones I've had (of both genders) are not ones with whom I've remained.
Cheers. 
