SARAH PALIN TRUMPS OBAMA-BIDEN
Posted on 09/19/2008 12:55:49 PM PDT by Caleb1411
The National Organization for Women endorses the Obama-Biden ticket. NOW ought to change its name to WOW. Such stunning independence. A working woman with five children, the governor of a sovereign state, isn't a sufficient accomplishment. Who knew?
Actually, Sarah Palin is a triumph for the "third stage" of feminism. The first stage of the modern woman's movement saw the destruction of the "feminine mystique." It's been almost 50 years since Betty Friedan argued that women lived in a "comfortable concentration camp" in the suburbs, prisoners with lots of rooms but no identity to call their own. She overstated the case, insulting full-time wives and mothers, but touched a nerve in many women who wanted careers that were closed to them.
"In the first stage, our aim was full participation, power and voice in the mainstream, but we were diverted from our dream," she would write. "And in our reaction against the feminine mystique, which defined women solely in terms of their relation to men as wives, mothers and homemakers, we sometimes seemed to fall into a feminist mystique which denied that core of women's personhood that is fulfilled through love, nurture, home."
She urged women to recover their maternal strengths even while working outside the home, and that set off the mommy wars. Stay-at-home mothers and working mothers fought each other over the choices they made in the "second stage" of feminism.
Man-bashing accompanied the mommy wars. Husbands of working wives were accused of suffering from something cleverly called premature emasculation. I once met a man who told me proudly that he went alone to Lamaze birthing class when his wife went away on a business trip. Men in those days were either macho or mommy-pecked, affecting either John Wayne or Dustin Hoffman.
Hillary Clinton was famously caught in
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If you read the article and Poehler’s Hillary imitation, they think Palin’s undeservedly came in and swooped up what Hillary supposedly earned all these years, without doing anything to deserve it.
Umm, liberals, ummm, Palin is on the REPUBLICAN ticket. Talk to the DNC about how they slapped down Hillary and you, her supporters.
And Barry, and the MSM, you want to find the REAL ‘bitter’ people in America? They aren’t the ones clinging to guns and religion. They’re the pissed off supporters of Hillary you shafted.
Young women are figuring out that they gained nothing by being able to bring home the bacon... as well as fry it up in the pan... and take 90% responsibility for the children and the home.
And, I can only hope that they continue their roles as family operations managers aka Mom.
Thanking God that my daughter-in-law sees the folly in trying to take care of her baby properly while engaged in a demanding career.
She has a masters degree and plans to return to work when her youngest is 8 or 9 years old.
lovely. tears always come to my eyes when I see this picture. Thank you for posting it.
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