I admit, I’d pretty much given up on writing about the TNDP’s inability to find and support female candidates because, you know, when the house is on fire you don’t really worry about the plumbing being shitty.
But then this happened. Listen, when two-thirds of the people who suddenly depart a place are young women and the boss is an older man and enough people are concerned that they’re like “Let’s do some exit interviews and make sure everything is on the up and up,” there needs to be a woman on the committee doing the exit interviews. Fine, Mary Patterson isn’t the right person for it, maybe. But there needs to be a woman present.
The fact that Roy Herron can’t see how important that is proves that the house being on fire is inseparable from the shitty plumbing. Perhaps a fire in the fireplace got out of control and no one could draw enough water to put it out before it caught the whole house. I don’t know.
But they are interrelated. The TNDP is a shithole that will not get its act together and will perpetually disappoint Tennessee Democrats because it’s still about protecting the few bases of power that are left, not about expanding opportunities for everyone. The sexism is not separate from that.
Tiny Cat Pants 
“The fact that Roy Herron can’t see how important that is proves that the house being on fire is inseparable from the shitty plumbing.”
The septic tank has ignited.
If you’re not an old white male heterosexual whose views are only slightly less Republican than Republicans, you’re not welcome. They threw gay people under the bus in 06, pitched Kim McMillan overboard for Ford, treated Park Overall shabbily, and little has changed.