Weighing in on Stuff

Thinking about yesterday’s blog inspired me to look into analysis but also smart women. Smart women come in all packages (in all fields) and all bring their own style. A few days ago Jamie Lee Curtis was being interviewed by Christiana Amanpour and she gave high kudos to Christiana for her top quality journalism. I must say that I absolutely agreed with her. Other journalist that I admire are Diane Sawyer and Bonnie Erbe.

Women who have brought a lot to the fore include Oprah Winfrey (much was ground breaking on her talk show), Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rachel Notley, Kamala Harris and many up and coming female world leaders.  Malala Yousafsai is a remarkable young woman giving voice globally to female education.

Where do individuals get their moral compass? It used to be mostly within the family and perhaps a little bit from our schooling. In today’s world it seems a bit sketchier because somehow a lot of common sense has dissipated and I believe that is the result of too much social media. Parents are taking their eyes off the ball (in the case in parenting). Furthermore too much political correctness has led to schools being advised to take a “hands off” approach in mentoring their students (I am not talking about physically but mentally, emotionally and morally). Whether one is Christian, Sikh, Muslin or atheist there are certain moral truths sanctioned by . . . oh, let’s say the UN. It’s not rocket science to give a child some guidance on how to be an upstanding citizen but apparently it can be quite challenging for folks today.

So I take my hat off to corporations such as Gillette who are running ads right now that show men with empathy. Apparently that sent Meghan over the deep end but I think it is a very worthy “public service” announcement. I believe Nike did another one a couple of years ago. Let’s face it a gun-toting, Baptist, Pro Life Republican would “have her head explode” if government spent money on a public service ad that would somehow “preach to the masses”. Hmm, and what is the NRA doing?