There’s a picture from 2003 that I can’t seem to forget: It shows President George W. Bush, flanked by a gaggle of other

If a person’s first thought when seeing a group of accomplished women is that their gender got them there (as opposed to the truth that it likely hindered their rise), what they’re really saying is that they cannot imagine so many women are truly that smart or capable. One or two women? Sure. But more than a token amount of anyone other than a white man is suspect.

Maybe to change that, we need a few more all-female teams across more levels of government and business for people to get used to the idea of women as adept. It’s like what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said when asked how women would be enough on the Supreme Court: “My answer is when there are nine.”

The idea that women are only in leadership positions because of their gender is nothing new. (Just ask any woman who supported a female presidential candidate.) But why are people who have never had a problem with mostly white male leadership suddenly aghast about a bit of gender homogeneity in the incoming Biden administration?

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he M1 story. We have no benchmarks, real-world app tests, or battery rundown numbers, but it would be foolish to deny that we’re turning an important system corner here. Apple’s M1 and all those Macs is the inflection point and now we all wait to see what comes next.

Because to them, white men are a politically neutral group: the default choice. Any deviation from that standard must be about identity politics. It has never occurred to them that white men are the most political identity of all.

As peaceful protests broke out in Punjab, I remember watching a video of a farmer from Bihar explain what had happened to him and the advantages Punjabi farmers had. I remember him explaining that they owned approximately five acres of farming land, but the men in his family were in Punjab working as labourers on farms because they couldn’t make ends meet on their own farm. His family was living with the consequences of a similar legislation in Bihar. So I set out trying to learn more and trying to figure out why the farmers in Punjab were so against a Bill that Modi and the BJP government ecstatically declared a win for farmers across the nation.

Maybe to change that, we need a few more all-female teams across more levels of government and business for people to get used to the idea of women as adept. It’s like what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said when asked how women would be enough on the Supreme Court: “My answer is when there are nine.”

I’ve thought about that picture often this week as conservatives continue to whine about the all-female senior communications team announced by the incoming Biden administration. (Apparently, an all-male group rolling back women’s bodily autonomy is not nearly as controversial to some people as women creating press strategy.)

The nonsense claim of the day is that the only reason President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris selected an all-female team was because of gender, not capability. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, for example, huffed, “When you pick an all-women team, what you’re saying, quite clearly, it’s about gender and not competence. You’re meaning to tell me you couldn’t find one dude, one dude in D.C.?” Gutfeld, who’s made headlines in the past for insinuating that his female co-host was giving men erections and “joking” that a female fighter pilot wouldn’t know how to park her plane, went on to chide the Biden-Harris picks as a pure “virtue signal.”

Let’s say that’s actually the case and that the throngs of straight white men in positions of power are really there solely because of their smarts — why, then, would it be so hard to believe the same could be true for a group of women? (Given the sexism women have to overcome, I’m willing to bet that an all-female group would actually be more adept than a group of men who haven’t had to face the same hurdles.)

And while the Modi government felt that the Bill would empower and enrich the farmers in a “free market”; in reality, we don’t actually know if the farmers will reap any benefits from this legislation. What we do know is that these very farmers will more than likely lose a fair wage. Farmers in the states of Punjab and Haryana were already able to sell privately in many other states. They also had the guarantee of selling their crops through the government mandi system. The mandi system is a marketplace where farmers sell their crops. It guarantees a Minimum Support Price (MSP), which is a fixed price that farmers would get for their crops. With the farmers bill, farmers in Punjab and Haryana are facing the threat of losing the MSP and eventually the mandi system. And then with the mandi system out of the way, corporations are able to set their own rates.

In September 2020, the BJP government passed a farmers bill unanimously in Rajya Sabha (for ease of reference we’ll call it parliament). The Deputy Chairman (essentially similar to a house speaker) and the BJP government refused to listen to the demands of the opposition parties. The demands were simple — send the farmers bill to a parliamentary committee for further deliberations or adjourn the debate over the bill to the next day. I remember watching the news at that time and listening to the frustration of the opposition MP’s, and specifically thinking how could this be happening? How can the Indian government be pushing an agenda when it was a bill that clearly wouldn’t have otherwise passed in parliament? Immediately after the Deputy Chairman passed the bill, opposition MP’s began protesting Rajya Sabha and the farmers bill, while others were suspended for their behaviour.

Secondly, the corporations will be given an option to lease farms and can ultimately decide what the farmers should grow on their land. When they live in a supposed democracy, who is the government to tell a farmer what they can or cannot grow?

For centuries, straight white men have been at the world’s helm because they were straight white men. Still, despite eons of patriarchy and the systemic disenfranchisement of marginalized communities, we are supposed to believe that the glut of white men in power is based on competence alone. How many times have we heard that an all-white male panel, board of directors, or leadership team was chosen solely on ability? They were race- and gender-blind in their process, they swear! It was all about who was best for the job!

First, let me start with giving you a little background before I get into how you can help. I’ve also included some great links in the article to help you understand the farmers bill and the farmers protest. Some are in English, others are not, but a few of them have English subtitles. Please do check them out!