Equality. Now if you are one of those traditional minded folk, you hear the word equality and the next word that pops in is opportunity. For the progressive mind, opportunity is for naught. They don’t’ respect choices, they respect statistics. But statistics never tell the whole story.
Case in point. Bay Buchanan and Norah O’Donnell on the choices women have today.
This is the difference. Liberals don’t want choices for other women. They want all women to make the same choices they have. Any time another woman makes a different choice, it is a glass ceiling.
Ok, fine. This works out just fine. Somebody has to clean the glass ceiling and it certainly isn’t gonna be a man. Fictitious oppression, after all, is a full time job.
May 14, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Bay Buchanan is absolutely right. Many women are starting to realize that we don't have to buy the feminist agenda anymore. We realize that we can set our own priorities now and many of us choose to focus on our families. My family is one of the main reasons why I won't run for public office (at least not for a while)-they need me at home and I refuse to let my young children be a target for media scrutiny. Maybe that's why we saw a decrease in woman representatives in Congress: they decided that they wouldn't permit their families to be collateral damage in the election cycle.
It's different for a man running for office. He frequently has a wife to hold things down for the family at home. A husband can do that as well for his wife running for elected office, but the mother and wife running for office has to answer stupid questions like: "How do we know it's not really going to be your husband calling the shots if you are elected? How can you give yourself completely to both representing your district and to your family?" No one asks a man those questions.
I'm not complaining. It's a fact. And the people who ask those questions aren't the conservative commentators, they're the liberal ones who think the only woman worth anything is the one who has one or no children who goes out and forges a high profile career for herself.
May 14, 2012 at 7:24 pm
I'm so tired of the idea that life has to have equal outcome. No. This is a land of opportunity. And, we are given equal opportunity.