Michelle - I've said this before, but you really need to be in touch with more successful women - including women that you live in fear of, those of the Republican persuasion that are hardly the stereotypical barefoot and pregnant type you keep claiming are the supposed "objective" of the Republicans. It's aging rhetoric that has little parallel to reality.
Try putting that spin on the likes of Libby Dole. It's stereotypical liberal-spin nonsense to say the Republicans want women in a subservient, let alone powerless, role. Works well on the uneducated who live in fear, but you are hardly in that category, so I suspect another more sophisticated political agenda.
I know and work with women who meet the challenges of family and career, and I also know that many of the successful are equal partners in the "family" effort with their husbands. I still think what you're really afraid of is a that you might discover there are women, with husbands, with children and careers, that have somehow miraculously managed to find a way to succeed in spite of the supposed baggage of (dare I say it?) "family values." It is apparently far enough beyond your personal experience that it must be some kind of hateful, imaginary product of an organized religion to suggest that it is not only possible, but that it happens routinely in daily life.
As far as the "rights [sic] objective regarding this Clinton situation - backlash against feminism perhaps? A way to make the feminists look bad?" It isn't hard at all to make them look hypocritical. The objective, though, IMO, is to point out how far down the slippery slope of moral relativism Clinton has been able to lead us by the propaganda of "truth" being relative to a cause.
Mr. K. |
