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In reply to the discussion: Kamala Harris is not "childless" [View all]MadameButterfly
(3,725 posts)45. still its amazing that Vance just couldn't see
Kamala's or Pete Buttigieg's children because they didn't fit Vance's idea of a traditional family.
In politics it has long been required even of men to have children and kiss a lot of babies. But women have been in the much more impossible situation of having to be supermoms while running super-careers to be considered both human. and qualified.
Male politicians often shunt child rearing off to their wives and don't have the challenge of the double role. Trump is an extreme example. Ivana said of their young children that Donald "didn't know what to do with them." He doesn't have the capacity to love as children need to be loved no matter how many babies he has sired.
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It should not matter if she was/is. Some women cannot have children, some choose not to
Bev54
Jul 2024
#3
Hard for the never-right to push 'adoption, not abortion' while dissing President-to-be Harris
sanatanadharma
Jul 2024
#6
Great point we all need to remember when any office holder, potential office holder, media talker disparages...
Attilatheblond
Jul 2024
#20
And, lots of conservative women can't have kids, or are stepmoms, or are raising a younger sibling
obamanut2012
Jul 2024
#24
It was an absurd statement to begin with, but now it just reminds us how heartless and clueless these people are.
Martin68
Jul 2024
#25
Damn fool Vance is another educated idiot, a christofascist and a power hungry bootlicker
onetexan
Jul 2024
#34
Any woman with a soul has children that she dreams for, even if they aren't her own.
58Sunliner
Jul 2024
#28
A much larger percentage of women I know with kids are miserable than the child free women.
SunSeeker
Jul 2024
#64
Yeah because those Moms For Liberty psychos have done such a great job, haven't they?
Initech
Jul 2024
#50
Exactly. Her kids came up with the name Momala because they didn't want to call her stepmom.
SunSeeker
Jul 2024
#62