It's a distraction from a BIGGER ISSUE when we get caught up in this Ann Romney bullshit.

[MrMickeysMom]

Please... and I'm not the first to say this.. my comment has also been posted in response to this Ann Romney crap where people find themselves caught up in a new argument about stay at home moms, or how she chose this/that...

IT'S DISTRACTING AN EVEN BIGGER ISSUE!

What we should be pointing to in particular are how all the fringe groups would-be Romney voters feel about women. They have nothing but distain and an agenda to savaging feminists and women in general. Just look at the internet and follow what the Southern Poverty Law Center is (as part of the ongoing track on hate groups in general) have to say about the war on women.

Listen to some of these group's organizational names:

Boycott American Women
The Counter Feminist (boycottamericanwomen.blogspot.com)
The False Rape Society (falserapesociety.blogspot.com)
In Mala Fide (www.inmalafide.com)
MarkyMark's Thoughts (markymarksthoughts.blogspot.com)

I'm also gonna post a website that makes fun of the so-called "manosphere" (http://manboobz.com/)

Meanwhile, the Rom-bots get in the news with something that isn't even news. I mean, come on... how long have we understood that the well-off, rich, and very rich can claim to "choose" to be stay-at-home moms, thus THINKING they can level the playing field on what is fair among the 99% of us?

Let's get to the real issue and not be distracted by the one's the Rom-bots want us to talk up.

[dkf]

1. To me it's exposed the opposite... How strange is it to have never had a job?

Geez you would think that the common experience of every woman is that they had to go through all the bunk that comes with earning money.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. The real issue, dkf, is the way women are continually treated, regardless of where they are...

My generation (boomers) had lots of moms staying home, but very modest homes with family rich activities. That's changed...

What has gotten worse, is that when the work force, or public duty is take up by women in leadership roles, the backlash is to demonize women.

Women today have to pick up the work force, just like they've been picking up and keeping things together for years. They shouldn't be demonized.

[dkf]

3. Never had a job ever? Maybe they stayed at home to raise kids but

What about before and after? My mom stayed at home to raise us but she got a job out of college, met dad, had us, and returned to work after we were in school.

My grandmother had a job as a maid before she met my grandfather. My other grandmother worked in my grandfathers shop. Nope. I don't have a single family member that never had a job.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. No, I didn't mean to say that the women in my family never had jobs... I'm talking generations ...

and, it is true that more women entered the work force when raising families, which is not the experience many boomer's mothers had.

My mother would have loved to continue working, but when she married my dad, she (this is that generational thing) stopped working, which probably kept us from having more material things.

The point (again) I've tried to make with this OP is that we as Democrats are beginning to get caught up in the subject of Ann Romney and de-focusing on the real issue relative to this presidential election - which IS THE WAR ON WOMEN.

You haven't said anything about that.

[dkf]

6. Give women credit for being able to decide whether GOP policies are to their personal detriment.

I don't like this whole "war on ____" business. The language is crazy.

Its societal attitudes that form biases. I don't put much faith in changing attitudes through edict.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. I'll give women all the credit to decide if Romney's wife is important...

...when everyone stops insisting we pay attention to what Ann Romney does...

We were beginning to have an in-depth conversation on THE REAL issues, until "we" somehow gave a shit about Ann staying at home. Talk about crazy language, like people didn't understand that anyway. It distracted the real conversation we were beginning to have.

There are several "wars" going on here... there always have been.

I suppose the war on poverty "language" is also crazy to you... huh...

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Thank you! That's why I think this is a non-issue.

I agree that this is a generational thing. My mother worked in her family business (a family grocery store) starting when she was a kid, then went to college (where she was an honor student - full scholarship) and got a job after she graduated. After she married my Dad, she continued to work until she had kids. That's what most people did back then. I'm sure they could have used more money, but what would she have done with us? Day care wasn't exactly available in the '50s and '60s. Sometimes I've wondered if she had a resentment towards me, since I was born first...

[Fumesucker]

5. Marky Mark's thoughts is an oxymoron... n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Doesn't America deserve to see (and know) our

prosepctive first lady in all her 'glory'?

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Why?

Why, when America should be seeing it every day that moron opens his mouth and talks about her Caddy's, or the car elevator, or the people he knows who manage and own racing teams?

DO YOU NOT GET that this is a distraction to the bigger women's issue?

[lunatica]

11. Actually I think this manufactured issue is working very well for our side

because for once it's obvious that it's manufactured. The overwhelming reactions that I have come across are from women who are making their voices heard about how most women don't have the choice. It's not only not working for them, but it's working against them now.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. If that is so, then I hope our voices rise above the manufactured BS about us.

It would be nice if that were true... to see through this logic bending campaign tactic.


I mean, how bad does it have to get for women by the GOP's lies about them, propping up more lies by Rom-bot's wife?