Womens Conference runs into rough seas of their own making

[herding cats]

256. Personal confession moment.

I saw the real life impact of this fiasco. I'm locally involved with a women's group who originally supported this. They no longer do and we're doing a local rally now in substitution. Previously some of the ladies were attending, but there was a divide, albeit an amicable one.

We all knew of the previous issues, but it helped bring many of us together and we had expressed our concerns after the previous "issues" were brought to our attention. Many were under the false impression this was going to be a whole different beast. These ladies are not stupid, nor naive women. They were just misled. I feel deeply for them all and the potential impact this might have for our group.

I realize here we see everything through a proper veil of political cynicism, but some of these ladies didn't understand that until it was smacked upside their heads with the full on stench of a 5 day old dead fish. It was a difficult lesson to learn for them. It was equally difficult to witness. I won't lie, it broke my heart. Which is why you will not see me being flippant in any of these threads.

Yes, it was handled abysmally. Yes, woman who are respected leaders were disregarded and disrespected by the organizers. In my local world that's a non refundable fact. Whatever other outtake people have is their own, but my people are not happy and we're working to deal with the fallout.