In regard to Linda Turley-Hansen’s guest column, April 15, I am disappointed that Ms. Turley-Hansen chose to “pile on” without the “professional mode of assessing both candidates” or, in this case, a fair assessment of what Hilary Rosen said after she proclaimed that Romney’s wife “has actually never worked a day in her life,” which was, “She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future.” Rosen’s ideas are true.
Additionally, Linda said, “Some of the most powerful parts of a woman’s world are her girlfriends …” Note, she did not say that a woman’s most powerful part is her mind. Linda said that, “when we allow ourselves to be controlled by the political edge, we produce poison.” Yet, some of the most influential women in American history have used the “political edge” to promote and encourage better living and working conditions for women in this great country. I could provide a very long list of women who have served in this way beginning with The Factory Girls Association, and Mary Lyon, founder of the first women’s college in 1837, as well as Sarah Bagley who established the Female Labor Reform Association in 1845. The list is long and there is not enough room here to expand. Nonetheless, Linda, your version of women’s strengths is wholly inadequate.
Suzanne Jones
Mesa
Cerulean posted at 3:22 pm on Thu, Apr 19, 2012.
openureyes, Thanks for the link, it is a good overview of the issue. [smile]
openureyes posted at 1:36 pm on Thu, Apr 19, 2012.
VofR - actually, she wasn't contrasting it with Obama's spouse's situation, but with Obama's advisors-on-women's-economic-concerns situation. You can read the full text of her response here http://womensissues.about.com/b/2012/04/12/transcript-of-hilary-rosens-actual-ann-romney-comments-reveal-intent-yet-still-spark-working-mom-stay-at-home-mom-conflict.htm.
Here's the part that disputes your first point:
"With respect to economic issues, I think actually that Mitt Romney is right, that ultimately women care more about the economic well-being of their families and the like. But he doesn't connect on that issue either. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying, 'Well, you know my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues and when I listen to my wife that's what I'm hearing.'
Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing..."
Your second point is far from profound, but rather a classic straw man argument.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 1:14 pm on Thu, Apr 19, 2012.
Yes.....let's hear it for the ...."Femi-Gnatzies" out there in the work place.
Let's here it for these "Femi-Gnatzies" who leave their children in the care of Illegal Alien babysitters and communal Day Care Centers where the infants and toddlers are left in the care of strangers (and how many Sexual Predators...Gawd only knows ???).
Then the Femi-Gnatzies pick their progeny up from these strangers and take them home to be fed from a packaged or canned or frozen food item given one hug and put to bed. These Femi-Gnatzie children would be better of raised by ......WOLVES....at least a Wolf mother shows some affection and maternal (a word banned from the Femi-Gnatzie vocabulary) love.
To these .........Femi-Gnatzies.....a baby is nothing more than a .....TAX DEDUCTION...to be raised by strangers until it can be put into the Education System from ..........PRE-KINDERGARTEN...........ONWARD.
VofReason posted at 12:33 pm on Thu, Apr 19, 2012.
Maybe your right. Maybe she just should have pointed out two obvious points to which Mrs Rosen's statement falls flat. First, making such a statement would indicate she was contrasting it against her favored candidate's situation. I don't think that contrast hold's true with Michelle Obama- right? My guess is she doesn't know the rigors of trying to put food on the table, yada yada yada. The other maybe even more profound. Would you rather have the future president be a homeless man who lives below a bridge with a wife who knows precisely the rigors of trying to feed her children?
downtownresident posted at 12:27 pm on Thu, Apr 19, 2012.
What did you expect?
A fair, unbiased account from a good little Mormon girl?