Is the War on Women Real or Manufactured?
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2012/04/12 19:18:14
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Politics got personal on Wednesday when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen accused Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, of having "never worked a day in her life." It moved Mrs. Romney to send her first tweet ever ("I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work"), setting off a debate over the decision to work or stay home. But The Christian Science Monitor is calling it a "fake" debate.
Ann told Fox News, "[Rosen] should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble, it wasn’t so easy. My career choice was to be a mother. And I think all of us need to know that we need to respect the choices that women make. Other women make other choices to have a career and raise a family, which I think Hilary Rosen has actually done herself. I respect that, that's wonderful... We have to respect women in all those choices that they make."
But Rosen is sticking to her guns, and responded to the criticism in a CNN editorial: "I have no judgments about women who work outside the home versus women who work in the home raising a family. I admire women who can stay home and raise their kids full time. I even envy them sometimes. It is a wonderful luxury to have the choice. But let's stipulate that it is not a choice that most women have in America today." We're not sure if Hilary Rosen or Ann Romney wins this debate, but that's not really the point. Do you think these kinds of feuds are real -- or just manufactured to get a vote in politics?
Ann told Fox News, "[Rosen] should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble, it wasn’t so easy. My career choice was to be a mother. And I think all of us need to know that we need to respect the choices that women make. Other women make other choices to have a career and raise a family, which I think Hilary Rosen has actually done herself. I respect that, that's wonderful... We have to respect women in all those choices that they make."
But Rosen is sticking to her guns, and responded to the criticism in a CNN editorial: "I have no judgments about women who work outside the home versus women who work in the home raising a family. I admire women who can stay home and raise their kids full time. I even envy them sometimes. It is a wonderful luxury to have the choice. But let's stipulate that it is not a choice that most women have in America today." We're not sure if Hilary Rosen or Ann Romney wins this debate, but that's not really the point. Do you think these kinds of feuds are real -- or just manufactured to get a vote in politics?
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Rod 2012/04/12 20:02:55
I believe it was a talking head from the Democratic party that threw a woman under the bus because she stayed home to raise her children, not the other way around....let's stay focused.
I get what you're saying!
I think there is some confusion here on the definition of "work". If you take it simply to mean "labor", then Mrs.Romney is a worker and a very hard one at that, as is any stay at home parent.
If, like I think her critics do, you take the term to mean "labor specifically for the purpose of making a living", then Ms. Rosen is correct in saying she hasn't ever had to do that.
The way the question is phrased, however, means that any commenter can use it as a platform to discuss any women's issue. You could say "There's a WAR against women who work/ want to be stay-at-home-moms/ are transgendered/ want to get abortions/want to use birth control/ want to work in the sex industry/ some segue into Ron Paul (????)/ anything else that could possibly qualify as a 'women's issue'."
Again, not saying there aren't still blatant and inexcusable inequalities between the sexes, but I don't think lumping them all under one malformed umbrella of sensationalism will do anything but start flame wars.
The House Republicans' first major act was to vote to repeal Health Care Reform, the law that prevents insurance companies from charging higher premiums for women or denying them health care because they have been victims of domestic violence.
Since the recovery officially began in July 2009, men have gained 1.3 million jobs while women have actually lost more than 150,000 jobs.
Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blocked jobs bills that would hire additional teachers and nurses – professions with a high percentage of women. In fact, 78 percent of K-12 teachers are women
This year, Republicans in Congress have introduced more than 40 bills and state legislators have introduced more than 600 measures that would restrict a woman’s access to a full range of reproductive health care, including attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and other family planning services.
The Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it would double annual out of pocket costs for beneficiaries, which would disproportionately hurt women, who make up two-thirds of poor seniors in America
"Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blocked jobs bills that would hire additional teachers and nurses – professions with a high percentage of women. In fact, 78 percent of K-12 teachers are women"
Whaaa? Who's hiring? Why would Congress being hiring teachers and nurses? Local school districts hire their teachers and nurses, so I'm genuinely baffled by what you mean.
And, (tired, exasperated sigh), what "Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it"? Can you point to a specific bill? A specific statement by a Republic outlining such a plan?
Way to go Ann Romney
Can you provide examples of parallel treatment by Jews or Christians towards women? (Modern history).
90% of the babies aborted in this country were probably future democratic voters. Democrats would be in a perpetual majority if it were not for abortion. This fact is not lost on the Nation of Islam folks that deplore abortion as a genocide of black babies in this country.
What ever Woody Allen says is irrelevant and does not represent any liberals. And your last statement is ambiguous.
You made the statement that some on the right, without naming anyone, don't think that women should vote. I countered by pointing out that a well known person on the left doesn't think anyone should have a vote, (i.e. a Marxist dictatorship). If Woody Allen is irrelevant, what does that make unknown nobodys on the right? Less than irrelevant.
I could have been clearer in my last statement. I find it ironical that the left generally supports abortion while the right generally opposes it. The irony is that a huge majority of the babies being aborted would be future voters for the left.