When I began interviewing for counseling internships I received a call from a female clinical director who had received a received a recommendation from one of my female professors. Both women were staunch left leaning pro-woman women. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amy-coney-barrett-is-picked-to-fill-supreme-court-vacancy-11601071739

My professor and I knew we didn’t agree on a lot, but we respected each other and she gave me great training, I credit her for my trauma training, and my passion for that specialty. I received the offer for that internship, but was told my habit was unacceptable.

I told them both what they could do with their internship (in a lovely Catholic nun-like way, but they got my point). Later, they both recanted, and welcomed me in my habit. In our conversation I asked them, are you really pro-woman or are you pro YOUR kind of woman?

I told them as a black woman, who was aware of how much others sacrificed so I didn’t have to live in shackles, that I refused to take up their shackles that they were posturing as feminine freedom. I still decided to walk away from that internship offer,

But the experience comes back to my mind as this YOUNG MOTHER becomes a likely candidate for the #SCOTUS and so few celebrate this wonderful woman and her accomplishments, perhaps because , in the opinion of the pro-woman folks she’s not the RIGHT KIND of woman to celebrate.