Obama and DNC Advisor declare tonight that "Ann Romney hasn't worked a day in her life"......forgetting the fact that she has raised 5 sons, has MS
I worked as a mathematician at an atomic power lab in western Pennsylvania before our children were born. When I became pregnant with our first child, my plans were to take six months off from work. After that six months had elapsed, I found that I did not want to return to work, but rather wanted to remain at home and become a full-time mother to him (and his sister, who arrived three years later). The comments that were made to me by my then co-workers in the industry were a real eye-opener, and they paralleled the opinion implied by Obama above -- that being a full-time mother is really not 'work', and is somehow degrading to a 'professional woman'.
About ten years later, in the mid '80s, I wrote an article, for a now-defunct magazine called Conservative Digest, entitled 'The Feminist Assault on Motherhood'. Before pen hit paper, I was aware that feminists in general did not support women who stayed home to raise their children, but, upon doing some research, I discovered that feminists at that time, and prior, were actually extremely hostile toward stay-at-home mothers -- they not only disrespected them for that choice, but they created out of whole cloth 'statistics' that proved that full-time mothers were actually doing their children harm.
That was thirty years ago. The rhetoric, and the ideology that left-leaning feminists now choose to advance, are exponentially more toxic. And the women whose choices they choose to defend, or who are viewed as having been harmed by the actions of a 'bigoted society', all sit on the left end of the political spectrum. |
