Posted on 09/21/2008 1:35:00 PM PDT by markomalley
When Charlie Gibson asked Sarah Palin if questions about her ability to balance work and family were sexist, her response electrified female voters in both parties.
"I'm part of a generation where that question is kind of irrelevant," she said.
By dismissing the topic, Palin demonstrated the conservative values she brings to the McCain ticket, which have galvanized the Republican right. But many were infuriated by her remark, which appeared to slight family-friendly policies at a time when they could be getting significant attention.
Never before in U.S. history have women been on the brink of attaining the highest political offices, yet discussion of policies that would support working women, who account for 46 percent of the labor force, has been largely absent from the campaigns.
In response to Palin's remarks, women's organizations - including the Feminist Majority Political Action Committee and NOW, which have not endorsed a presidential candidate since 1984 - rushed last week to back the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. A primary concern of NOW members and leaders, according to Kim Gandy, who chairs NOW's political action committee, "is to make sure women understand that Sarah Palin does not support women's rights." Deep partisan divide
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Dana Walsh, president of Nob Hill Republican Women, who is running against Nancy Pelosi for Congress in November, said, "All we can ask for is equal opportunity; we can't guarantee equal results."
"I don't understand why liberals are apoplectic about Sarah Palin," said Walsh, who lives in San Francisco and describes herself as a former feminist. "Palin is the definitive role model for young women. She is a successful politician and a successful woman who has it all."
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I'm not used to seeing that in the Chronicle.
The Democrat party’s stance on family issues divides women.
And Democrats wrecked havoc on the family in the 60’s and 70’s and are still doing so today.
But Gloria Steinem's didn't.
Generation X is moving into its own. It’s less ideological and less political than the previous generaion.
Obama’s stance on communism divides America.
I’m inclined to agree, with regard to gen X and the following gen, whatever it is called these days. They seem to be recovering the common sense that had been programmed out of the 60’s generation by the destroyers (socialists and communists).
Maybe because apoplexy is the natural state of mind for a liberal?
After being angry at the person in front of them as they drop their child off at school, they go home and kick the dog, scream at the laundry, call someone to complain about something, email anonymous death threats to the kindergarten teacher and secretly covet Sarah Palin’s ease of looking so put together while being a mother of 5 and running for Vice President. It just kills them.
I’ve never seen any statistics on this, but I am sure they would be what one would expect:
Support for abortion among sex addicts vs. support for abortion among non—sex addicts.
“Remember this: The strongest sign of the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization of women. It is notable that in Communist nations women are exhorted, and compelled, to do what has traditionally been men’s work. American women, some of them, feel triumphant that they have broken down the ‘barricades’ between the work of the sexes.
I hope they will still feel triumphant when some commissar forces a shovel or an axe into their soft hands and compels them to pound and cut forests and dig ditches. I hope they will be ‘happy’ when a husband deserts them and they must support their children and themselves alone. (After all, if a woman must be ‘free’ she shouldn’t object to men being free too, should she?)
I hope they will feel ‘fulfilled’ when they are given no more courtesies due to their sex and no kindnesses, but are kicked aside on the subways buses by men, and jostled out of the way by men on busy sidewalks and elevators…. I hope, when they look in their mirrors, that they will be pleased to see exhausted, embittered faces, and that they will be consoled by their paychecks.”
- Taylor Caldwell, 1970
I’m guessing there are more Pro-Life women than there are Pro-Abortion women in this country.
If there aren't now, there will be in a generation or two.
(think about it)
And that will be a good thing!
Women opposing Palin = babykillers with bad consciences.
The realization that a significant part of one's generation was never born can tend to influence one's thinking.
I wish pro-life people could convince those women that they--the pro-life people--are offering the one chance they'll ever have to rid themselves of the guilt that consumes them. Unfortunately, I suspect too many "pro-life" people would rather have those women wallow in their guilt than help to rid them of it.
No, it doesn’t. Only the women who don’t have families don’t like her.
If this is true, then it is equally true that Biden's stance (or Obama's, or NOW's) divides women.
Palin’s nomination has clearly separated the committed baby killers from the default Democrat voters. The committed Marxists from the media-created libs.
(Thanks, 0bama...) :-(
Gen Xers are cyncial, independent minded, and share some libertarian views. They are the most GOP leaning of the Generations. The Baby Boomers are split in their partisan leanings. The FDR generation was the most Dem leaning until Gen Y. Polls have shown that Gen Y (18-29 yrs old) is the most Dem leaning generation since the New Deal folks. These young folks may pose a problem for us in the next decade.
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