Right wing blogger throws working moms under the bus
ByDebbie Schlussel, on the Mike Church radio show this morning, was talking about her article titled “With Nomination of Mr. Mom as Second Lady, GOP Throws Traditional Family, Values, Masculinity Out Window.” Mike Church seemed a bit uncomfortable with the conversation. I, frankly, could not believe my ears. I try not to criticize my fellow conservatives, but I couldn’t let this pass without comment.
The gist of Ms. Schlussel’s argument is that conservatives and Republicans who say Sarah Palin can be a mother and vice president are frauds. That all of a sudden, the right has embraced leftist social policy. She said conservatives are for family values and that women shouldn’t be breadwinners.
I don’t know what year Ms. Schlussel is living in, but it isn’t 2008. First of all, why does she feel the need to refer to Todd Palin as a ”Mr. Mom?” How about calling him a “father” or a “dad’” which is what he is. Since when is it emasculating for a father to help care for his children? Not once when my husband changed a diaper did I think “I better stop him – he looks so feminine!” When our sons were babies and would fall asleep on their dad’s chest I never imagined him in a dress. I just thought “How nice, he’s bonding with our son.”
Does Ms. Schlussel understand that many families need two incomes? Is she telling working mothers they aren’t welcome in the GOP? Perhaps she would like to start a new welfare program called “Mommies Stay Home on the Taxpayers Dime.” Is she telling conservative career women they should forego having children to uphold some utopian ideal of the perfect family?
If a family can afford it, and the mother chooses to stay home with the kids, I am all for it. Some girls grow up wanting nothing more than to be a stay at home mom and that’s fantastic. But not all Americans have that luxury, and some women feel they have a lot to offer and want to work. Does she think women who may become depressed because they aren’t working, or are in a state of dependency, are better than mothers who are happy and independent?
Just as stay at home mothers make a lot of sacrifices for their families, so do working mothers. We sacrifice sleep and time for ourselves. We still love and nurture our children. In the year 2008 it is possible to raise happy, independent, well adjusted children even if mommy works.
There are quite a few women out there who work hard and want to keep more of their money. They don’t like high taxes, they want school choice and strong national defense. For some reason these women don’t tend to vote Republican or identify with conservatives. Hmmm, I wonder why?
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Some people were just meant not to share thier ideas and she’s one of them. The only thing Schlussel would be good for is an alien deterrent. Aliens fly by in thier UFO, they see her and decide that there is no intelligent life on this planet and they move on. World saved. That’s about the extent of her usefulness.
I listen to Mike Church every day en route from my office to my home office. I really like his show, he’s great. Every Friday at about 11 AM she’s on doing movie reviews. It’s my least favorite day of the week for his show, but I listen, mainly because I don’t really watch many movies, so at least I will feel less out of it. I never visited her blog before, never heard of her before getting Sirius radio. All I can say is, she certainly doesn’t speak for me. Before hearing her I never really felt like I was part of any “mommy war”.
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“But not all Americans have that luxury, and some women feel they have a lot to offer and want to work. Does she think women who may become depressed because they aren’t working, or are in a state of dependency, are better than mothers who are happy and independent?”
Debbie Schlussel is certainly the right’s answer to a barking moon bat, however, your above paragraph tells me you’ve been drinking the feminist kool aid by the gallon. Geez, did you paraphrase Friedan? What kind of mother is depressed taking care of her own damn family (note, that’s work too)?! Try working at a meaningless job, away from your loved ones, because feminists have robbed women of the right to stay home, and men feel entitled to farm out their own wives now- that is depressing. Who says “what” a woman has “to offer” is squandered on her own family, rather than a boss? A man working outside the home and a woman within is a fair trade and not “dependency.”
Debbie Schlussel’s problem is that she’s severely emotionally unbalanced, petty, and hates everything. She gets a perverse sense of self-worth by smearing others, and even sets her sights on conservatives when she runs out of targets. But tell me how you’re conservative after your smear (albeit unintentional) on traditional women?
I certainly had no intention of smearing women who don’t work outside the home. There are times I wish I could be home full time and not have to work. It’s not up to Schlussel or anyone else to judge a woman for having a career. That certainly doesn’t mean I’m drinking feminist Kool Aid. Try being raised by a depressed woman and then come back to me. You sound just like Schlusssel.
And now I’m going to take my kids back to our pool that my job helped pay for.