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Tifferzzz

Tifferzzz

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...whatever it might be.

Alright so I live in Saint George, UT. Which if any of you are familiar with Zions National Park or Bryce Canyon or even Lake Powell.....well who am I kidding...I'm an hour and a half out of Las Vegas.

Desert country

Population 133,000 and rising.

Voted safest city in the nation.

You get the general idea.

Being 26 and owning the only business in Saint George that does Credit Report Repair, I have been approached to become part of the "Business of Professional Women."

Tell me if I'm neurotic for taking offense to this.

Without really knowing anything of them, here's what irks me. (And yes, irk is my new word) Everyone bitches at everyone else for their own problems instead of picking up the reins and saying 'hey I need to take care of my own shit rather than blaming others.' Hence the business of professional women.

Everyone is fucking oppressed. Everyone. Black, white, Mexican, short, tall, fat, old, young....we're all fucking oppressed. You're either oppressed on a sexist basis or racist basis. At least that's what all the law suits in the nation are based on. So here's this group of women that have come together to fight for women to get equal pay and treatment of men.

Now if I'm working at the same job as SJ (Singles him out so she doesn't get sued for picking a man in this scenario) and he makes 50 cents more an hour than I do, and we have equal training and equal job opportunities.....then I'm gonna quit and go somewhere else where they will pay me more.

So I've been voted into this competition to go compete for scholarship money by doing speeches for the Business of Professional Woman, even though I'm not part of the group. They came by and brought me a membership package yesterday.

I think what irritates me is this...

I get my high off of my business based on my clients results. The more results they see the happier I am. I take it as a personal victory. I don't want to be known as 'that woman who owns that credit repair business.' I want to be known as that person who did something great for someone else regardless of my gender and age. And if that makes me a bad person in other people's eyes than so be it.

Question....should I join this club?

Opinionate......ready.......go.
 
Are you saying I'm not a man?

Thats it... I'm going to go find my wife-beater, and use it on you.
(Only joking. I would never hit a woman.)

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Your question: "Should I join this club?"

My opinion: If you gain main from joining this club, then join the club. if you gain more from not joining the club, then don't join the club.

You didn't really clearly state for me what benefits you get from joining, and what you have to pay for these benefits, so I can't give a solid yes or no answer.
 
Honestly I don't know if it's going to cost me. Apparantly the benefits are it's another networking group, but just of women. It's not so much on a professional basis that I'm running into my moral issues, it's the fact that it's the business of professional....women. I'm part of three different clubs that integrate all ages, races, and professions. Perhaps I don't live in the part of the world where I see that a lot of women are oppressed. Yet looking at the front page of there booklet I see this:

BPW/USA mission: to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.

http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

Personally if I wasn't receiving equal pay or rights due to my gender...well then I better kick my own ass because I'm my own boss. Am I just being overly neurotic about this?
 
Ok, it looks like a $110/yr fee.

If you will make more than that from the connections, I would say join. See if you can get a month trial or something first.

And try to see if their moral compass aligns with your own. If not, see what you can do to adjust it, or just drop them and don't bother staying a member.
 
Well in my opinion Tifferzzz, SJ is not a man, but I digress. I think that if the group wants you to speak and is willing to offer you money to speak and educate people, thats fine, I say do it. However if they tell you what to say thats when you need to worry about the moral compass thing. Woman, and Every other group deserves equality based on equal requirements and what not. However if this group wants to sobb and whine that they get nothing and are unwilling to do anything about it other than whine then fuck them toss them on the fire more meat for the other meat eaters..........And I somehow Summoned Dennis Leary . Anyhow From what I see your more of one who wants people to be active in digging thier own asses a path to do something, not someone whos willing to say lets all beg for a hand out. So My suggestion is to ask them all the hard questions what is thier end goal, what kind of advocacy are they looking for, when will they pay you ? things like that.
 
If this group you mention is strongly advocating equal rights and pay for woman in the workplace, then you could join on that basis. However, it will depend upon how much proactive action goes on within this group of Professional Women. As Mith stated above, if they bitch or whine without any proactivity then it will not benefit you personally to be part of a group which is doing nothing to address a serious problem of oppression in the workplace and in general.

I would advise you to join to see what it's like...but if you don't like what you see, leave.
 
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