The Emergence of Sarah Palin is actually the Return of Supermom. Mother of five, moose killer, and marathoner, she was back at work three days after her son's birth, juggling a Blackberry and a breast pump while making Helen Reddy look like a slacker. Call her a role model or a parody, but the fresh face of 2008 looks like the exhausted face of the 1980s.
There actually is a difference, and it's a pretty significant one. Unlike Supermom, Palin has a husband*.
Palin herself gives him credit:
There is no way I could have done this job without his tremendous contributions to the home life. He's able to keep it organized, like a well-oiled machine.It has been so many years since feminism was actually on the offensive that perhaps they've forgotten that the idea of shared household responsibilities was once a feminist goal.
I actually don't believe Todd Palin will be the real caregiver. I believe the Vice President of the United States of America could probably afford a nanny.
But still, it's the image that counts, and, personally, I think the role model that Todd Palin will make - as a strong, macho man who is not afraid to let his wife stand in front of him - has the potential to be just as powerful as an image as that of a woman VP.
I can't believe it's the so-called feminists peddling this idea that it's indecent for a woman with children to be career-oriented.
Why are feminists so hateful toward mothers?
No - wait - I think I may know the answer to that: I am guessing it is because feminism isn't really so much about concern for women as it is about opposing the patriarchy. (Am I right?)
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* it's the feminists who have traditionally been the ones - the only ones - arguing that women "can do it all", with or without men.
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