Katie, Come Out of the Kitchen

The location tells a sad story on International Women's Day.

The woman responding to the State of the Union filmed her response from her kitchen.

You can’t make this stuff up.

I’m sure since she’s a sitting US Senator that she had much better options than standing in the same room as her stove.

Who wants to wager that she’s not celebrating International Women’s Day or Women’s History Month?

She’s quite accomplished, having served as a staff member, press secretary, and Chief of Staff to former senator Richard Shelby, not to mention that she’s a businesswoman.

Why did her speech have to come from her kitchen?

The optics were carefully chosen.

Even with her impressive credentials, she couldn’t be seen sitting behind a desk, the Capitol, or a business concern.

She had to be in the kitchen.

She had to be in the kitchen because her own party thinks that’s where women belong.

They have done everything possible to strip women of the most intrinsic rights, her fellow party member running for governor in North Carolina said he wants to return to a time “when women couldn’t vote,” and the party’s presidential candidate believes the best way to impress a woman is to grab her private parts.

I can’t imagine the mental gymnastics required for someone like Katie Britt to be a businesswoman, serve as a United States Senator, all while being a member of a political party who works feverishly to devalue and disenfranchise women.

On this International Women’s Day, we are celebrating women who have proven that their place is wherever the heck they want it to be.

That includes the kitchen.

But not excluding everywhere else.

My hope for Katie Britt is she will realize that women should fearlessly, passionately, resolutely chase their dreams.

But my biggest hope for her is that she knows that she can come out of her kitchen.

Anytime she wants.