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Papersatan:

--- Quote from: Redball on 01 Mar 2013, 17:57 ---Kat, the skills you've learned and internalized about dealing with people, and your ability to articulate them sound like an immense advantage over those lacking the skills. How will you put them to work over a lifetime? How soon could you replace a House speaker, for example? I don't mean to be looking for future politicians among the women in this forum, but it's kind of fun.

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I actually wanted to be a politician for a long time.  My objection to being photographed in sexual situations was always that I might want to be electable someday. 

While I have decided that my career goals include what will likely be an elected position (city or county clerk), I am not sure I would work well on a national political stage. Once I go for a position people care about they will be here digging up all my posts about dildos and rum.  I am actually pretty easy to track down on the internet and a run for a national position would require a concerted effort to purge my internet history, which would be its own red flag and send people digging for the things I could not get rid of.  I am not ashamed of anything I have done or said, but the way the media works, if the 24hr news cycle caught a hold of something...   Though, I did have a friend suggests I go for it, and accept that even if my polyamorous, sex-positive, drunken ribaldry made me unelectable, that being able to debate on a national stage that it should not might still be beneficial in the long run at making elections about issues and abilities and not personal lives.

Redball:

--- Quote from: catflea on 02 Mar 2013, 03:39 ---Why specifically are you looking at the girlies?  :roll:

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At the newspaper I first went to work for 49.75 years ago, then owned, managed and edited by men, after 20 years I worked with several women who were good at some of the management-type jobs that required quick decisions dealing with news judgement, layout, where to send reporters, although they weren't management and couldn't crack the glass ceiling. So I learned to admire women who at the time weren't rewarded in the industry because of their gender.
That's stuck with me since. So when someone like Barmymoo or Papersatan strikes me as having an extra sensitivity to people and leadership skills, I enjoy calling attention to it, teasing about it, whatever. Occasionally I encounter a person who remembers me from some encounter months or years before, and remembers my name. My usual response: With a memory like that, you should run for office.

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