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Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst
The Guardian ^ | 1/26/14 | Jessica Luther

Posted on 01/26/2014 6:28:39 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

Most of the attacks against Davis are sexist. As a columnist for Breibart.com tweeted: "Wendy Davis: My story of attending Harvard Law on my husband's dime while he took care of the kids is a story every woman can relate to." Talking Points Memo has a plethora of examples of the full-force sexist attacks. And Twitter exploded earlier this week with the #MoreFakeThanWendyDavis hashtag, making fun of Davis for being a liar.

The problem is that the Dallas Morning News article that caused this backlash is questionable at best, and is undeniably sexist in its telling of Davis' story. Slater implies that Davis was a negligent mother in order to pursue her education and political career, and that she used her husband for his money. He quotes an "anonymous source" that claims that "Wendy [Davis] is tremendously ambitious. She's not going to let family or raising children or anything else to get in her way."

The "blurred facts", according to Slater, were that Davis says she divorced at 19, when in fact she had only separated from his first husband at 19, with the divorce being finalized when she was 21. Slater says that Davis overstates her time living as a single mother in a trailer, explaining that "she lived only a few months in a family mobile home while separated from her husband before moving into an apartment".

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davis; mother; political; sexism
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Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst

But what if its true? Will the liar tell us?

Exposing RATS is a dirty business.

1 posted on 01/26/2014 6:28:40 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst”

Actually, it seems to be an undeniable FACT.


2 posted on 01/26/2014 6:30:06 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Libloather

Guess I missed the Guardian editorial where they complained of the “unfair” and “sexist” media criticism of Sarah Palin.

/s


3 posted on 01/26/2014 6:30:59 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Libloather

The woman is a grifter bimbo.

Sorry, Guardian, but that’s the way it usually is with folks you defend.


4 posted on 01/26/2014 6:31:06 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: canuck_conservative

And they railroaded Cain for commenting to a women that she was as tall as his wife........


5 posted on 01/26/2014 6:32:45 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Libloather

Pointing out that she’s a liar isn’t painting her as a bad mother. The truth is what paints her as a bad mother.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 6:33:11 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: canuck_conservative

I was just about to say, no, Sandra Bernhard (whatever her name is, you know, the fugly lesbian so-called comedian) calling for Sarah Palin to be raped in a NYC alley by the fugly lesbo’s “black brothers” was sexism at its worst-amongst all the other ugly, ugly things which have been said about Palin (including what got that fruitcKe Bashit fired).

Calling Wendy Davis out on her lies isn’t sexist, unless “strong women” get a pass for lying to look like victims. “I am woman, hear me mewl”.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 6:35:26 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Libloather

Jessica Luther doesn’t have to worry as the voters in Texas
will sort it all out by Nov. 2014.


8 posted on 01/26/2014 6:35:38 AM PST by deport
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To: Da Coyote

Painting her as anything other than a mole-faced, bottle blonde, gold digging road whore is journalistic malpractice.


9 posted on 01/26/2014 6:36:22 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: Libloather; All

but it was a-okay when they did it to Sarah Palin...


10 posted on 01/26/2014 6:37:40 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Libloather

Blah, blah, blah. And if you are against Obama it’s because you are a racist...

;-)


12 posted on 01/26/2014 6:39:11 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Libloather

Exposing her lies is not painting her as anything but a liar.


13 posted on 01/26/2014 6:39:30 AM PST by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: csmusaret

Painting her in the worst possible light is part of the lefts game plan for 2016.

They will have to compare and contrast her with another women. To show how the other woman was a victim, has a family and stuck by her man when he had his transgressions.

Hmmmm.. Who would that be?

This is page 5 in the Democrat playbook. Question is how much is Wendy Davis getting from the Clinton’s PAC?


14 posted on 01/26/2014 6:44:23 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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To: Libloather

Wenchy Davis abandoned her two daughters.


15 posted on 01/26/2014 6:44:53 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: God luvs America

Exactly. Sarah Palin was painted as a bad mother because she chose to give birth and love her baby.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 6:45:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: Libloather

Telling the truth about Democrats is EVIL.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 6:49:15 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Howie66

She may be a good mother...but she certainly is a BAD liar!


18 posted on 01/26/2014 6:52:49 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Libloather

She should not have lied and she wouldn’t have this problem.


19 posted on 01/26/2014 6:52:49 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If “painting” Wendy is sexism then throwing the whole bucket of paint on Sarah Palin by the Democrats is sexism at its worst.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 6:53:18 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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