Can liberal women do anything that satisfies conservative ideals? Hillary Clinton was Queen Bitch of the Whitehouse because she had a job, brains, political ambitions, only one child, and her own last name. She had to publicly apologize for saying that she had a career and didn’t stay home and bake cookies. Michelle Obama is attacked for making too much money. Any female politician who isn’t perfectly coiffed and properly deferential is cast as a ball-busting bitch.
But now, female politicians who emphasize their families aren’t tough enough. Of course, Steyn does have to take a swipe at her physical appearance and toss in his usual “the white race is dying out!” fear-mongering, so it’s not all that unpredictable. He even follows the path of great conservative columnists everywhere and ends his op/ed with a statement that is simply contrary to reality:
Pelosi’s fellow California liberals and those gushing feminist columnists ought to ponder why ”the most powerful woman in America” is quite so untypical: What does it say when it’s the exception that proves the ruler?
Pelosi is an “exception” because she manages to “have it all” — kids and a career. Which is true, if by “exceptional” you mean “the experience of most women in this country.” But let’s not split hairs.
But those are the best kind!
Laura Bush – Stepford Wife.
Her smile creeps me out, but I’m easily scared.
No.
This has been simple answers to simple questions. ;-)
I fucking hate the use of mixed metaphors and oblique cliches. every single person that makes use of them think they’re oh-so-clever. smug enough to hit with a cricket bat thrice.
if they’d learn to write, they’d know they’re supposed to avoid cliches like the plague. *beat…2…3…4…* fuck ‘em.
also, what Mnem said.
I’m pretty sure Mark Steyn doesn’t have any “conservative ideals” apart from writing factually incorrect and inflammatory columns twice weekly for a very narrow subset of troglodytes so that he can make an occasional TV or radio appearance on some other reactionary idiot’s show to spout nonsense.
What’s he whining for? She had five kids; she’s doing her part to keep the white race alive.
;)
You missed Barbara Boxer, who’s rubbing her children and grandchildren in poor, childless Condoleezza Rice’s face. Or so say defenders of feminism Tony Snow and Rush Limbaugh. Though they didn’t have much to say when Laura Bush said that Condi couldn’t be President because she doesn’t have a family.
Well, Steyn can no longer argue (as he incessantly used to) that things in Iraq are just ducky, if only the evil MSM would tell the truth. So he’s reduced to sneering at Pelosi because she has grandchildren, or something.
Is anyone else tired of having to fucking do it all?
Pelosi is an “exception” because she manages to “have it all”
But indeed Pelosi is an exception for having it all. Very few of us, either men or women, have the luck or pluck (and mainly luck) to be a Nancy Pelosi.
The real problem is that, unlike Pelosi who realizes her luck, many of those who are all but to the manor born attribute their success to hard work and judge those not as successful to be lazy.
What’s he whining for? She had five kids; she’s doing her part to keep the white race alive.
She’s a class traitor.
Kaitlyn, I’m glad I’m not the only one creeped out. Though I generally try not to look directly at either Bush on tv, in case they have Superman’s ‘super-hypnosis’ powers and can fry my brain over the airwaves. (Same goes for pictures of Ann Coulter.)
But now, female politicians who emphasize their families aren’t tough enough.
The distinguishing characteristic is not that they’re female, but that they’re liberal. Their gender just provides a convenient mine of stereotypes to plunder when demonstrating that liberals are always wrong.
Liberals can’t win. Liberal women can’t win because it’s easy to say they’re either too womenly or too masculine. If they were men, they still couldn’t win, but the wingnuts might have to work a little harder to find buttons to push for their base. Watch for any GOP opponent of Obama to emphasise that *his* (and isn’t that pronoun indicative?) family has been in America for generations, lo, since the Mayflower…