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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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To: Libloather

If you want to piss off a conservative, lie.

If you want to piss off a liberal, tell the truth.


41 posted on 01/26/2014 7:51:51 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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42 posted on 01/26/2014 7:52:54 AM PST by deport
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To: Libloather

‘Mother’ implies the child, or children, actually lived with the person. Biological parent is more appropriate


43 posted on 01/26/2014 7:53:26 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Libloather

To the court she is not a bad mother, she isn’t one at all - she lost her parental rights.


44 posted on 01/26/2014 7:58:29 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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45 posted on 01/26/2014 7:58:55 AM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: svcw

No, she lost custody. No need to paint it to be worse than it is.


46 posted on 01/26/2014 8:00:04 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Libloather

Abortion Barbie is a liar just like Soetoro..


47 posted on 01/26/2014 8:00:57 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: canuck_conservative

Spot on.


48 posted on 01/26/2014 8:01:44 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Libloather

WHY????

It was fair game with Sarah Palin. Why the double standard?


49 posted on 01/26/2014 8:02:48 AM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: Libloather

.....Jessica Luther the issue in this instance is the credibility of leftists like yourself. Whenever ANYTHING happens that “the left” takes issue with, the SCREAM is always and predictably either Racism or Sexism!

By now (after about 50 years of this), somewhere around 100,000,000 of us have tuned this bs out. We don’t hear you ANYMORE!

So, if you want to “be heard” again, try a new tactic.


50 posted on 01/26/2014 8:03:36 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Libloather

I see her as good a parent as Bill Clinton or John Edwards both award winners. /sarcasm


51 posted on 01/26/2014 8:08:12 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: deport
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.

Now, poor Wayne, who was just trying to sweep some dust under the carpet and help out Wendy's campaign, is getting trashed in the Guardian.

Ah, the sad lot of a failed propagandist...

52 posted on 01/26/2014 8:12:39 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Libloather

Delicious irony to see how blind these leftist female writers are to how they did all this and FAR WORSE, to Sarah Palin in 2008.


53 posted on 01/26/2014 8:14:44 AM PST by AuditTheFed
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To: Libloather

Many wonder if Wendy is a mother or merely a Nanny employer


54 posted on 01/26/2014 8:16:34 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: okie01

Now, poor Wayne, who was just trying to sweep some dust under the carpet
and help out Wendy’s campaign

*************

That was my take. Get it out now so it becomes old news for the
General Election in Nov.


55 posted on 01/26/2014 8:20:31 AM PST by deport
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To: Libloather

Painting her as a good mother is Alinsky propaganda at its best.


56 posted on 01/26/2014 8:44:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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To: Libloather

Naw, she’s a great mother, dumping her kids on step dad to go play chowder bowl for Harvard liberal elites...yeah she’s great....

Can’t wait to vote against her


57 posted on 01/26/2014 9:16:02 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Libloather

But painting Michelle Bachmann as a shrill unbalanced mother is just good politics.


58 posted on 01/26/2014 9:26:55 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Mercat

She has no parental rights, because of the drug and alcohol issues.
In the being she only had I very limited visitation and then was removed.
She is a vile disgusting witch, there is no way to make her worse than she is.


59 posted on 01/26/2014 9:27:13 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: svcw

Really? I had not read that. Sad for her daughters. Why do they appear with her at campaign events?


60 posted on 01/26/2014 9:37:04 AM PST by Mercat
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