Women, Men, Power, and the Parent Trap

About men and women, and gender roles, and what to do if you're a woman but you like a woman, and who does what, and why am I becoming a man in this relationship? And what if you're a woman dating a man, but the gender roles are reversed? And what if you're a woman who likes a man but the man is perfectly happy working in a coffeehouse and you're, say, a high-flying engineer? About power, and how power is involved with sex. About how men and women express their power differently. About different kinds of power in a relationship--about how my friend Stephanie says, "Make me", versus me saying, "I'm going to make YOU make me"--but really, at the end, it's the same, because how can you make someone want to make you unless you're making them make you? How The Parent Trap Remake vs. The Original Parent Trap expresses this. About how women are LESS empowered now than we ever have been before. What we, as young women, can do about this.

And about work, and B-----, and unions, and the state of unions in America. And what makes a company good to work for? Why are we working for a company that did not make Forbes' Top 100 Companies To Work For? How can B----- employ 60,000 employees in the Puget Sound Region and NOT make the list of WASHINGTON'S Top 100 Companies To Work For? (For you statisticians out there, Washington is a hard state to crack--it's only behind California and Texas for hosting the highest number of Top 100 Companies, so in B-----'s defense, they have a challenge. But STILL.) What the hell are they missing that is so basic, and is there a connection between Dream and Reality if B----- didn't make such a generous list and is STILL the biggest employer in the region by far? Does such a list mean anything? What is the next labor revolution in America? Will Generation Y play a part?

And what about Generation Y? CertainlywWe are more self-aware than any other generation. This is both what makes us great--self-awareness promotes world awareness and clear-eyed, objective thinking, which could make us great social commentators--and what will do us in, as this level of self-awareness is fueled mainly by navel-gazing and the Blogosphere may rot our brains before any of us turn 30. Or 20.