Jubal... As always, your post "Abolish The Commission On The Status Of Women" shows the importance of the Commission on the Status of Women. Thank you..thank you... and thank you.

Your comment: ". . . if I were to attend and 'testify,' I'd let them know that this father of four daughters looks forward to the day when taxpayers aren't forced to fund a liberal advocacy group like the Commission on the Status of Women, which uses tax dollars to push a left-wing agenda of expanding government."

As a mother of three daughters, I pray your four daughters do not read your blogs. Believe it or not, your daughters may not always be blessed with living in the Orange County bubble, with their politically connected father protecting them. You have lots of nerve to publicly bash a women's advocacy group, with four daughters and a wife.

Taxpayers, men and women, have spent decades funding the male dominated good 'ol boy political and government networks. We have been forced to live with male dominated mismanagement, budget deficits and lower wages for decades, but still stand by our fathers, husbands and brothers whenever they need us.

Jubal... Matt Cunningham, SHAME ON YOU! Your daughters and your wife will be in my prayers.

Deby:

I always appreciate prayers, but you really need to acquire at least the semblance of a grip on political reality, instead of kooky conspiracy theories about The Patriarchy.

My daughters are smart, strong-willed and independent. They don't live in this fantasy world you've concocted for them. They don't need left-wing, taxpayer-funded, government-sponsored feminism as a crutch.

Debby,

It seems that if the commission had its way, no one would have a father to protect them. I read the entire report. Under the guise of helping women and girls the commission advocates just about every big government and anti family program imaginable. Taxpayer funded day care, single payer health care, prohibition on "transgender exclusion" in health plans, condoms in prisons, abortion, etc.

What I could not find among all of the commissions recommendations regarding our public policy toward women and girls - was any mention of a father.

Mark Bucher

I don't know too much about the "Commission on the Status of Women" because I have spent the major portion of my female life working at jobs that I have been able to be promoted through. I do not have a college degree. I make $85,000 a year. I am a woman. I have 35 years of experience working my way up through a structure basically dominated by men. But I've not done too badly. I know there are men where I work doing less work and that are less intelligent than I am that are making more money. But I'm not worried about them or this kind of inequity. I'm just glad the ERA was never added to our constitution. Because then I would have been forced to join the armed services and my life would have turned out much differently had I lived through the inevitable conflicts I would have probably been required to fight in. I got a jump start on a career. I've never had the time or money to go back to school to get that degree. Lack of that degree has stood in my way many times. But I had other priorities so I just don't have it. But I do have 35 great years of experience. I come up with good solutions to issues.

Part of being in a male dominated organization that drives me nuts is that when you (as a female) come up with a good idea, it is usually credited to a male that you work with. Or it is "taken over" as if you never said a word; while in the same room, during a meeting where you bring up a good idea....several minutes later a male will bring up that SAME idea and the other males all congratulate him on a great idea and it gets implemented. So while I try not to stress about that; and I just live with it, I also know that I have security of employment (well, as much as anyone does), good benefits, and will have a good retirement income.

If I had the day off of my wonderful job that God has blessed me with, I would go to that hearing and what I would tell them is that they are enabling irresponsibility in women. Pro-choice is nothing more than taking care of a "problem" you created when you have an abortion. Why did you create the "problem" in the first place? Have you no sense of responsibility for your own body? Abortion should not be used as a form of birth control.

There has been too much "lack of responsibility for ones own actions" throughout not just our gender, but through the races as well. Bill Cosby makes excellent points about this. I have a second cousin that has three bi-racial children with no fathers in sight, no child support, etc. She, however works to support her children and doesn't need or want welfare. She recently married an African American man who fell in love with her and took on her family. He is a hard working, good man who is turning into a great "instant dad". But my second-cousin has taken responsibility for her actions and has supported her own children, and now she has some help.

Back to the "commission" - where can I read this report? I needed to get my blood pressure up anyway....

I don't see how we can justify this commission under our regime of political correctness.

Why is the Commission focused on Women? Why such preferential treatment for traditional gender roles?

Transgenders don't get such treatmement. Transgenders are not women. For example, if you employee a transgender, you must allow him/her/them to use whichever bathroom he/she/they prefer. (See! Even our language otherizes transgenders by forcing them to choose a gender or be referred to in the plural.)

It's just wrong! We need a new Commission that recognizes that traditional gender roles are oppressive and exclusionary.

Governor Arnold! Lou Correa! Someone! Help us!

Rogue Elephant....wow you have really flipped your lid now.