Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst

The Guardian ^ | 1/26/14 | Jessica Luther

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

Most of the attacks against Davis are sexist. As a columnist for Breibart.com tweeted: "Wendy Davis: My story of attending Harvard Law on my husband's dime while he took care of the kids is a story every woman can relate to." Talking Points Memo has a plethora of examples of the full-force sexist attacks. And Twitter exploded earlier this week with the #MoreFakeThanWendyDavis hashtag, making fun of Davis for being a liar.

The problem is that the Dallas Morning News article that caused this backlash is questionable at best, and is undeniably sexist in its telling of Davis' story. Slater implies that Davis was a negligent mother in order to pursue her education and political career, and that she used her husband for his money. He quotes an "anonymous source" that claims that "Wendy [Davis] is tremendously ambitious. She's not going to let family or raising children or anything else to get in her way."

The "blurred facts", according to Slater, were that Davis says she divorced at 19, when in fact she had only separated from his first husband at 19, with the divorce being finalized when she was 21. Slater says that Davis overstates her time living as a single mother in a trailer, explaining that "she lived only a few months in a family mobile home while separated from her husband before moving into an apartment".

[null and void]

If you want to piss off a conservative, lie.

If you want to piss off a liberal, tell the truth.

[deport]

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[Gaffer]

‘Mother’ implies the child, or children, actually lived with the person. Biological parent is more appropriate

[svcw]

To the court she is not a bad mother, she isn’t one at all - she lost her parental rights.

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[Mercat]

No, she lost custody. No need to paint it to be worse than it is.

[VRWC For Truth]

Abortion Barbie is a liar just like Soetoro..

[dhs12345]

Spot on.

[tcrlaf]

WHY????

It was fair game with Sarah Palin. Why the double standard?

[Cen-Tejas]

.....Jessica Luther the issue in this instance is the credibility of leftists like yourself. Whenever ANYTHING happens that “the left” takes issue with, the SCREAM is always and predictably either Racism or Sexism!

By now (after about 50 years of this), somewhere around 100,000,000 of us have tuned this bs out. We don’t hear you ANYMORE!

So, if you want to “be heard” again, try a new tactic.

[bmwcyle]

I see her as good a parent as Bill Clinton or John Edwards both award winners. /sarcasm

[okie01]

The problem is that the Dallas Morning News article that caused this backlash is questionable at best, and is undeniably sexist in its telling of Davis' story. Slater implies that Davis was a negligent mother in order to pursue her education and political career, and that she used her husband for his money.

Now, poor Wayne, who was just trying to sweep some dust under the carpet and help out Wendy's campaign, is getting trashed in the Guardian.

Ah, the sad lot of a failed propagandist...

[AuditTheFed]

Delicious irony to see how blind these leftist female writers are to how they did all this and FAR WORSE, to Sarah Palin in 2008.

[bert]

Many wonder if Wendy is a mother or merely a Nanny employer

[deport]

Now, poor Wayne, who was just trying to sweep some dust under the carpet
and help out Wendy’s campaign

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That was my take. Get it out now so it becomes old news for the
General Election in Nov.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Painting her as a good mother is Alinsky propaganda at its best.

[12th_Monkey]

Naw, she’s a great mother, dumping her kids on step dad to go play chowder bowl for Harvard liberal elites...yeah she’s great....

Can’t wait to vote against her

[skeeter]

But painting Michelle Bachmann as a shrill unbalanced mother is just good politics.

[svcw]

She has no parental rights, because of the drug and alcohol issues.
In the being she only had I very limited visitation and then was removed.
She is a vile disgusting witch, there is no way to make her worse than she is.

[Mercat]

Really? I had not read that. Sad for her daughters. Why do they appear with her at campaign events?