Do it yourself

In a message dated 6/15/2004 8:27:24 AM Central Daylight Time, flamnembr@... writes: Nicely put. I have to chime in here just a bit. It hits one of my buttons. As a woman who worked in what was at the time primarily a man's profession (practicing law as a trial lawyer) I never wanted to be chosen for a position, or hired for a case or anything else because I was a woman, or in spite of being a woman. I wanted to be picked just because I was the one who was qualified. I don't want to fill a particular quota. I didn't try to dress in somber gray suits like some of the few other women did, nor did I ask helpless and weak and try to flirt with the powers that be as some others did. I was just me. I refused to join the Lawyers Association for Women because I didn't feel that I needed a seperate Bar Association. Most of my women lawyer peers thought I was nuts. So how does this tie in with tools. I do think the little pink tool kits are cute and pink is my favorite color. But I've never bought one because I never thought they'd do the job. I don't need a tool made for me. I can learn to use the ones that are made for the world at large. That's sort of how the world works. There's a standard and the rest of us need to try to adapt to be able to take advantage of it. So no I don't want a tool party or pink tools. I just don't want to be talked down to when I go to the big box and ask to see a particular size bolt. Boy did this get philosophical! But its one of my buttons (sorry, fortunately I don't have many!) Sidney