Work places are riddled with male leaders who see the world as a big game of Risk. World domination on a much smaller scale. They try to impose their ideas on others and think nothing of using people as mere collateral damage in their quest for power. Intellectual men with multiple degrees stomping their feet on the ground because they don't their way. Why?
I was a communications manager at a successful nonprofit and was having issues with an employee I supervised. He was rude, arrogant and refused to show up to work, or not, at anyone's request. Clear case of someone who should be fired. When I shared my concerns with my male boss his response was, "Don't take it personally. I don't think he would like to report to any woman." The "solution" turned out to be changing the reporting structure of this man to my male boss. Problem solved.
In a world where inequities exist on so many levels how are we evolve as a society?
After all of these events ran through my mind I finally jumped in and told my boys, yes we are referring to the original question at hand, "It doesn't matter what color the monsters are. There are no boy colors or girl colors. All monsters have loud roars and things to say. If it were me I'd pick the monster with the strongest voice."
Perhaps this is too much thought to put into a mere color conversation between toddlers, but hey, it's got to start somewhere, I know sexism does. I am monster, hear me roar.
