Posted on 07/27/2010 6:59:20 PM PDT by republicangel
Sexist. I thought we weren’t supposed to care.
She's had an amazing career, you would have to admit.
Barbara Bush already “took command” of George H.W. Bush decades ago...
Thanks for that link, because someone on the comments section was wanting to know what she did before she got fast tracked...
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Not another Holly Graf, I hope.
Glad they named her a female. I can’t tell otherwise. But I wont ask, wont tell.
She looks like a FINO to me.
Haven't read the article so I don't know, and can admit nothing -- and I do not click through unless the excerpt grabs my interest. Way too many PC "snooze" sites are larded up with ads and other junk that takes forever to load. I pick & choose. Yours did not make the grade. Along with most other excerpted articles.
The article led off with "Rear Adm. Nora Tyson will become the first woman" and nothing quoted on FR said anything more significant than "first female." If she had other achievements that go beyond being the "first female", they didn't make it into the excerpt.
(Not your fault, but next time you excerpt you might want to include something other than just the first few dozen words. Including telling me why I should be interested.)
"First woman" as a lead is SO boring and SO VERY 1970s ... why even bother?
She’s commanded ships that carry lots of Marines and drunken sailors around so she’s up to almost anything, I reckun. :-)
THIS sexist cares - she looks like a young Janet Reno.
(Do the math!)
Looks like she’s RDML, does she get another star to RADM with the assignment?
This photo neither helps my eyes, nor my confidence that the U.S. Military is good for women.
And NOW becomes even more irrelevant.
Oh come on, she’s in her early 50’s and married. Look at her hand. :-)
No idea who Holly Graf is. BTW, I don't need to know. (I think.)
Not sure of the makeup of FReeperdom these days, I will say that I have no problems seeing women make it in formerly male-dominated fields. Grace Hopper (if I remember her name correctly) is one. My daughters are moving up in the engineering world, and I work with some extremely capable female engineers. And in my last trip to China I was surprised to see that female engineers appeared to outnumber male.
But I really thought we could have put this "first female" garbage behind us a long time ago.
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