Work politics

Oh boy. My manager basicly said to me, "You're next in line to be lead assistant manager as soon as we get rid of the one we have now." He didn't say that exactly but he implied it heavily.

Now I have a couple of issues with being told this.
1. I dislike the idea that he wants to get rid of her to promote me.
2. The current chain of command goes Manager>Lead Assistant Manager>Assistant Manager>Team Leader(me). So he has implied that he wants to get rid of the current lead assistant manager and promote me over the current assistant manager. This just seems wrong to me.

Both of them are competent in their positions. Both of them are preforming their jobs at the best of their abilities. I can not think of a good reason why he wants to leap frog me up the chain of command.

No wait, I can think of one reason but god I hope it isn't the reason. Both the assistant manager and lead assistant manager are women. God, I hope he isn't thinking of promoting me so "the men" would be in charge. If I found out that was his motivation for wanting to promote me I would have to quit. Not think about quiting or consider quiting. I would just quit.

You know when I was just an employee I didn't have to deal with stuff like this.

I feel ill [trigger warning]

You know just when I think the world can't get any more fucked up, it does.

The regional archbishop in Brazil has excommunicated a nine year girl's doctors and mother. Why you ask? Well you see the little girl was raped by her stepfather. Wait there's more. What is a possible outcome of being raped? If you answered pregnancy, you are correct. The little girl was pregnant with twins. The twins were aborted for fears the girl would not survive the pregnancy.

Brazil has very strict anti-abortion laws which only allow abortion in cases of rape or if the woman's life is in danger. The little girl falls under both conditions. And so the regional archbishop excommunicated the mother for authorizing the abortion and the doctors for doing it.

The stepfather has not been excommunicated.

And he was probably also raping her fourteen year old physically handicapped sister.

And the Vatican is defending the archbishop's decision by saying that the doctors and girl's mother committed the greater crime. Yes aborting a pregnancy, that would have likely not come to term and killed the girl and the fetuses, to save the girl's life is worse than raping that same girl nine year old girl.

I feel ill.