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[andrewducker]

Female senator against allowing women to vote

And if that doesn't prove the world is crazy, what does?

Asked if she supports the 19th Amendment, the Republican lawmaker responded: "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.

"I'm sorry women have not been taken more care of," she said. "We have gotten the short end of the stick."

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[allorin.livejournal.com]

While she's clearly absurd, complaining that the choice for women to stay at home is being eroded by a shift in societal values while extolling that the choice for women to vote/work/be equal should never have been given, she does actually make some good points.

Sadly, often the sensible parts of what people are drowned out by their greater absurdities.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

If she's so old-fashioned, she'd remember that Republicans were some of the first to endorse women's suffrage, in 1912. Maybe she wants her man to buy her a slave, too.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

If you look at what she says, particularly ...

The message to women, reinforced by books, television and magazines, O'Connor said, was to abandon more traditional homemaker roles and enter the workplace.

And with the onset of higher taxes to finance social welfare programs, said O'Connor, a 15-year homemaker, a second household income was necessary to make ends meet.

Consequently, the 19th Amendment was the beginning of a societal shift that today erodes traditional family values, she said.

... it seems that her argument contains subtleties.
Women voted, they voted for welfare reform, welfare reform costs money hence taxes, women went to work because they needed more money to run the household.

Whereas the world would be a better place if we all stayed where we were and accepted what we were given - especially women and the poor, and presumably poor women especially. Poor women are to blame for the world's ills - oh look! A standard Republican theme.

I find it amazing that the thought that men might be equally reponsible for rearing their children and maintaining their home doesn't seem to have entered her head.

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[derumi.livejournal.com]

I find it amazing that the thought that men might be equally reponsible for rearing their children and maintaining their home doesn't seem to have entered her head.


I thought that was the common Democrat theme... >_>