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Romney: Poor Mothers Should Be Required to Work Outside the Home

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/15/2012 2:00:37 pm PDT

re: #179 jytdog

The interpretation that he is talking about women/moms shows just how messed up and sexist our society is.

Doesn’t it simply reflect that the vast majority of single parents are women?

By default, our society assumes that women are the #1 responsible party for raising kids.

That’s not really true. Child support is supposed to reflect that, and gender is supposed to no longer be taken into account in terms of who gets custody of kids in a divorce. I think what you mean is that, biologically, only women have kids, and we do take into account that only women have spent nine months, followed by painful and traumatic labor.

Women considering a career debate how they will fit in raising kids; men don’t think about that for a heart beat. So our society should make it simple for women to have access to birth control. And abortion. It IS about women and power, exactly because our society is so deeply, even unconsciously, sexist.

I’m a little confused by this— again, you seem to ignore biology here. It’s not really about raising kids, it’s about the much higher price a woman pays in becoming pregnant than the man in the equation does.

The feminist movement still has a looong way to go to make things truly equal.

Well, for one thing, they’d have to make men able to bear children.

Think about it.