The ten “Counsel” positions were just entitled “Counsel”. There are other job titles with “Counsel” in it (Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to the President, Counsel to the President and Director of Office for Health Care Reform, Tax Counsel). Those ten positions only say “Counsel” but don’t give any other information.

There were lots of other examples I could have given, but I tried to keep the blog post under 500 words… editorial guidelines!

My name is Chelsea and I am on the Development team at RAINN. I came across your blog because you’ve mentioned RAINN in some of your writing. I wanted to contact you to thank you for your support and commitment to ending sexual assault.

I wanted to share with you an exciting opportunity to help victims of sexual assault. I’m not sure if you’re familiar, but on July 25, there will be a National Day of Blogs. Participants will agree to blog for up to 24 hours to benefit their favorite charity. The objective of the event is to raise both funds and awareness for a cause that is important to you.

f you’re interested, please visit http://www.blogathon.org/ for more information or feel free to email me with questions. If you chose to participate, I will be available to help you secure sponsors.

Thank you so much, Holly, for your support! I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Best,

Chelsea

Unlike some others, she doesn’t have a book deal and doesn’t get paid big dollars for speaking out about what’s right. This is a grandmother on social security who just earlier this year was unable to pay her winter heating bill when her social security check went missing for several weeks. Before you go passing judgments, you might want to get the facts and not judge through Obama-biased glasses.

Lilly Ledbetter a role model? No question in my mind.

Also, I would like to point out some facts:
1. Lilly received top awards for her work performance
2. She spent several years of her life on a case that didn’t yield a dime for her.

Jackie: thanks for your story – yes I’m afraid I agree with you that employment discrimination is still in the minds of some…

Secondly, there’s also a big difference between being discriminatory in membership and having some set of membership standards. Discrimination occurs when there are membership restrictions about personal attributes that one cannot change–sexual preference, skin color, etc. However, membership standards set the level of what is required or preferred in membership in an organization for it to work well. They are abilities or skills one can aspire to, learn or achieve. Instances of these situations occur at all levels of life. Every child cannot join the local swim team; you have to learn to swim first. Every high school student cannot take AP courses; you have to be academically qualified for them. Everyone cannot be a city firefighter; you have to meet minimum strength standards. You have to live in the subdivision to be in the homeowners group. To let everyone join without meeting the standard would not do the group any good or benefit the person in any way. AAUW has set a minimum educational standard for membership; it gives us a unity in membership and credibility in our national standing. Skills, strength and educational level are all things one can work on to upgrade and achieve. These standards are not discrimination in my definition. I am a very open minded person and being accused of being discriminatory makes me angry. So, I had to say something. I speak for myself, and maybe for others, as well. I don’t want to see this group split over this issue. Maybe some understanding of positions and definitions would help bridge the gap.

According to that logic, I shouldn’t pay attention to the American Cancer Societies research on how to avoid cancer, because they have a vested interest in preventing cancer.

You can choose to ignore the facts, but that isn’t going to make them untrue.