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The Most Hilarious Celeb Responses To The Election On Twitter
The Best Part Of Working On A Campaign? Sex With A Secret Service Guy, Apparently - The Frisky
“Cupp is right about one thing: “Why shouldn’t women also feel compelled to consider how their future husbands will take care of them?” I dislike the phrasing of the sentence — “takes care of them” — because it’s my view that a partnership takes care of each other, regardless of who is the financial breadwinner. However, Cupp’s question is nevertheless a question that I explored myself a few years ago. With a heapful of Hilary Rosen-esque ineloquency, I wrote about how I want to become a SAHM for at least a portion of my future children’s youth and therefore I logically need to consider a partner’s earning potential when I shack up and make babies. (Get outraged here! And here!)
I fully understand why using as “man as a financial plan” is ill-advised for anyone but Donald Trump’s wives. It it ridiculous for anyone to suggest the 99 percent could solve all their problems if, duh, they had only thought to marry up! First of all, there aren’t that many rich folks to go around. Second of all, refer to my previous point about the unreliableness of the breadwinner’s paycheck.
At the same time, it’s just realistic to acknowledge that if you are not independently wealthy (hey, what’s up!) and you truly desire to be a stay-at-home parent with every fiber of your being, you need to marry/partner with someone who can financially support the family unit. That’s just accounting, folks. Of course, it takes an enormous amount of class privilege to be able to have that choice. Yet I’m uncomfortable with the tone that sometimes arises during this discussion, including from my fellow feminists, that anyone who aspires for this future partnership-and-parenthood setup in some way is a “goldigger” or entitled sell-out.
I got torn a new asshole when I wrote about wanting to partner/procreate with someone who is down with my SAHM aspirations, specifically from feminist blogger Jill Filipovic, who suggested on Feministe that I had an “immature” “princess fantasy.” That stung, in part, because I think planning parenthood is actually admirably mature. One of the things to take into account when planning parenthood is how are you going to feed, clothe and shelter the freakin’ kid. Yet it seems to me to be this thing that feminists aren’t supposed to talk about because it perhaps wades too deep into class issues that people are afraid of being perceived as being “on the wrong side of.” (Which I also find weird because intersectionality on issues is usually a big thing for most feminists, and one can be a SAHM but also support things like paid maternity leave, pay equity, and other gender/labor issues. I certainly do.) People should be able to have honest conversations about their family/parenting ideals — even if they are only in the realm of fantasy for some — and not to be judgey-wudgey about people’s personal choices that affect no one other than themselves. It is to our detriment to ignore or shame the desire to be a SAHM (or SAHD, for that reason) because the desire does exist. It may not be a choice everyone would choose. It certainly isn’t a choice everyone can choose. But if someone wants to choose it, it should be treated with respect.”
Ann Romney Says Family Dog “Loved” Traveling On Top Of The Car - The Frisky
Whoa boy, DogCarGate just won’t end, and now it’s Mitt Romney’s wife Ann who’s speaking out and defending the family’s practice of traveling with their dog Seamus on top of the car. The Romneys had previously gotten flack for admitting to a strapping Seamus (in a crate) to the roof of the car during a 1983 family trip from Boston to Ontario. And in an interview with Diane Sawyer earlier this week, Ann Romney claimed the dog loved traveling that way.
“The dog loved it,” Ann Romney said. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”
As for the time the dog got sick during the ride, defecating and puking down the front of the car? That wasn’t from the ride, that was because, said Ann, “Once, he — we traveled all the time — and he ate the turkey on the counter. I mean, he had the runs.”
“The Romney camp is happily fanning the flames of the “mommy wars” — the way society pits working moms against stay-at-homes moms by accusing each of never being good enough — to twist Hilary Rosen’s stupid statement into a dig at Ann’s “choice,” as she put it. Of course, this has become a kerfluffle precisely because the GOP knows it has taken a hit with women after all their birth control nuttiness, abortion banning and slut-calling and it’s grabbing for straws. As Hilary Rosen herself wrote in a Huffington Post blog last night, “If they want to attack me and distract the public’s attention away from their nominee’s woeful record, it just demonstrates how much they just don’t get it.”
This Ann Romney victimhood tale of woe is just a sideshow. Instead of these real or perceived grenade launched yesterday into the mommy wars, let’s focus our attention on the more salient issues that effect working women. Pay equity. Living wages. Affordable childcare. Maternity leave. Paternity leave. Access to birth control. Planning pregnancy.”
Today’s Lady News: Rick Santorum Used To Be Pro-Choice - The Frisky
Cain Launches “Women For Herman Cain” Website Trashing “Pathetic Husbandless Women” - The Frisky
I wish I was making this up. I really do. But no. This is real (emphasis mine):
“Dear Mrs. Cain Don’t pay attention to these pathetic husbandless women who are jealous of women like you in happy long-term marriages. These vindictive women can’t find a husband or keep one. They are like stalkers who try to latch on to any man who shows a bit of kindness or attention to them. When these unstable women come out of the woodwork to make accusations about Herman just say, ‘Honey, get a life, I believe my husband.’ We want you to be our First Lady Mrs. Cain!”
