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The reality was far different than I expected, and the truth is that very few men will stay home with a kid who is sick, when both of you work. I'm very happy for those of you lucky enough to have found men that will truly share in the kid-raising 50/50, but since my husband was making more than me, his job was determined to be the more important one for our family to keep.
As a country, we may be more tolerant about women in the workforce (seriously, is this a reason for applause? I guess so. Yay?), but there are really significant problems out there. I was almost too late to discover that my child needed serious help, because I was so busy working 60 hours weeks. My husband didn't realize anything was wrong, and when he did, he wasn't as motivated as I was with his treatment. I would like to counter that my husband is an incredible father. He's just not a mother, raised in a society that presses the importance on the mother for raising children. And there's no real way around that, much as we'd like there to be. #meetthepress
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The look of shock on the womans face that I do not consider my man a blundering idiot barely capable of keeping a toddler alive from 9-5 was precious. #meetthepress
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07/23/09
THIS is what a pitbull in lipstick looks like.
love,
Attila
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Another thing to consider is that I think her unique position to remind Obama and his staff of the effect of public policy on women, POC, etc. supercedes any concern about her accountability. I have a hard time getting up in arms about her reporting only to Obama when she seems to be doing so much unequivocal good and making POC staffers feel so much more comfortable, because I think that's such an important function of any supposedly progressive presidency.
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Things always seem to go back to the same, to the fact that there's a majority of people who simply can't conceive not only that there are paradigms and points of view other than their own (the standard), but that there are whole segments of the population who might feel uncomfortable with notions they deem harmless, uncomfort usually dismissed as "over-sensitivity". Nuances, indeed, that so many people can't or don't want to see.
I assume that said nuances play a big role in the feathers ruffled by Jarrett.
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