Mark Steyn: Idea of 'women's issues' a lie

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 11/17/2002 | Mark Steyn

[maica]

The Dems are the party of old women. Oh, OK, ''mature'' women

Oh, I like that one. We have to start getting that one out and around.

When I worked as a poll judge on the 5th, only one person felt compelled to comment on her voting preference as we were getting her ballot ready, and sure enough she was over 50 and democrat, and her assumption, looking at me - being in the same age group - was that I was obviously a 'sister' in the 'fight' for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

Was she ever wrong! In more ways than one!

[longtermmemmory]

"How in the world are they still in control of 43% of this country? "

For the same reason 92% of black voters vote democrat party.

[Let's Roll]

"There was a problem; it's been fixed, now get over it!"

This same syndrome afflicts the greens. The fact that we have done a terrific job of cleaning up our air and water is dismissed with a shrug as they ride increasingly irrelevant and more costly environmental "issues" into the ground. Partnered with junk science and the lapdog media they cling to their cushy jobs and bureaucratic power.

[Airborne Longhorn]

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[eureka!]

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[MaeWest]

The Dems are the party of old women....
Oh, I like that one. We have to start getting that one out and around.

Bingo... and BUMP!

[longtermmemmory]

This same syndrome afflicts the greens. The fact that we have done a terrific job of cleaning up our air and water is dismissed with a shrug as they ride increasingly irrelevant and more costly environmental "issues" into the ground. Partnered with junk science and the lapdog media they cling to their cushy jobs and bureaucratic power.

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The environmentalist movement was never really about cleaning the environment. It was always about eliminating individual property rights and replacing it with collective property rights. It has used the useful idiots of the entertainment industry to market the movement in a way to pass dual objective laws.

In the 60's it was called the conservation movement and it was not environmentalism it was ecology. Those terms have too much on individual responsibility and does not go with the eco-socialists true goals. (why else is gorbachev now mucking around with the enviro-wackos?)

[Ciexyz]

This woman's issues: #1 is homeland security (at which the Dems are hopeless and pathetic). Then: economic stability, affordable health care and prescriptions, protection of the pre-born, protection of the right to bear arms, protection of the right of religious expression.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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-- Ben Stein, when asked if his 'Ferris Bueller' bit part ever haunted him (Quoted from here).

[Amelia]

Thanks, Dilg! :)

[marsh2]

As a newly elected public servant, I can tell you that there are, indeed, "women's issues." Take childcare, not one male Supervisor will tolerate having to serve on that county committee. Behavioral health, elder care, child abuse, family services - all the same. This is the "women supervisors" automatic domain. Also, if you look at the committees, there are very few men serving on them - unless they are department heads or physicians. This implies that women care enough about these issue to commit their time and talents to them.

Observing the political leanings of those involved in these issues as a profession, particularly teachers and sociologists, I would say that they are liberal.

Recently, I was privileged to hear Charles Wiley of Accuracy in Media speak. He recounted a story about an obituary of a gentleman who was identified as a Republican and, "in contrast," involved in charitable works.

When my son told his female friend that his mom was a Republican, she crinkled her nose and stated that she couldn't understand why a woman would be a Republican.

I, for one, think we have some image problems. We can pat ourselves on the back and deny it, but the problem will not go away.

[blackie]

Big Mark Steyn...Bump !!

[ArrogantBustard]

and abortions were done in back alleys, sometimes with disastrous consequences.

Every abortion has disastrous consequences.

[longtermmemmory]

You points fail to adress the flip side. Few young men will confess to being democrats because young male democrats are either gay or there because thier wives or girlfriends made them. The democrats have a huge image problem. This last election was not that the democrats did not get their message across, the democrats have sucessfully gotten their message across and the public knows what they are about.

As for acuracy in media, aren't they a left wing media group with the belief that the media has a conservative bias? Try http://www.mrc.org


It is not only any issue of committing time and talents. The childcare committtee (which you do not identify) which you describe are more administrative. Why would any man want to help an institution which has destroyed children and the family unit in the guise of day care.

The image for democrats is fundamental. Not only does the Democrat party not care about straight and/or family men, it agressivly hates straight and/or family men. Who wants to be part of a group that hates you.

[FeliciaCat]

Great read,would you please add me to your Steyn ping list?

Thanks!

[marsh2]

The speaker from Accuracy in Media is a conservative. The speach was given at a Republican Women's Dinner.

Your comments about childcare reveal that you may possibly be trapped in the 19th century. Most women now work to earn a living. Without childcare, there is no welfare reform, latch key kids and increased juvenile crime. It is also a huge part of local economies, where parents may pay from $600-$1000 per child a month for care. It is also a profession with many specially credentialed early child development teachers providing services.

When you make statements about childcare having a responsibility in breaking up the family unit, you will probably have huge disagreement from more than half of the population - women. Childcare is an industry that arose in response to a need by BOTH male and female parents to provide supervision and enrichment to their children when THEY were unable to be home to take care of them themselves. The reasons THEY are unable to be home are generally economic, although many men do not see personal child care as part of their responsiblity as a parent.

[Tares]

Thanks for the bump.