Own Your Shit, Asshole

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/business/smallbusiness/16women.html?ex=1359003600&en=d42eca4f8e32a0c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

An article ran in the Times a few weeks ago which highlighted how women business owners are not getting their rightful ‘piece of the pie,’ if you will. The premise was that even with gov. regulation, women who own small businesses in the US were still not securing a fair share of government contracts. Elizabeth Novak, chief executive officer of Environmental Waste Specialists, a three-person company in Chantilly, Va., that packages, transports and disposes of contaminated waste, counts herself among the critics of the proposed rules.

I’m sure you must be thinking, “So what? Asshole.” Indeed! Let me tell you what I took from this article, which pertains to the following Parker Posey Asshole of the Day post below. Kudos to Elizabeth Novak for leading by example: here is a women who literally, owns her shit. So, ladies, whether it be in the puke pink office bathroom stalls (literal) or while workin’ it out on the town (anti-julia allison styles), lest all else fails us, the one thing we can and should always do is (literally), own our shit.

Without further ado, ladies, gentleman and assholes, I give you the blog world premiere of asshole sighting extraordinaire and all around kick ass cohort, the one and only, Parker Posey:

Parker Posey: Long Island typical mold coworker, in her late twenties, married living in Brooklyn because everyone knows it’s the “new hip place” for people like her, overheard telling other women coworkers her stomach hurts but she would never (GASP) you know in the bathroom. Why, because according to Miss Stereotypical USA it is utterly repulsive and she simply can not stand it when other people use the bathroom to, you know, go to the bathroom. Didn’t your mother ever read you Everyone Poops? Asshole.