Michelle Obama Criticizes America at UN for Treatment of Women

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'In a recent address to a United Nations education event, First Lady Michelle Obama decided to shine the light on a certain nation’s treatment of women. No, it wasn’t Saudi Arabia where females aren’t allowed to drive, or the Congo where rape is brutal and systematic. It was the United States.

Here’s the relevant portion of the First Lady’s speech of September 24: “[W]omen here are still woefully underrepresented in our government and in the senior ranks of our corporations. We still struggle with violence against women and harmful cultural norms that tell women how they’re supposed to look and act.”

Now, it’s not just that singling out the United States for such criticism in our rough-hewn world is a bit like maligning a neighbor who wouldn’t buy his wife a new mink while ignoring the wife-beater across the street; it’s that, critics might point out, what’s explicit and implicit in M. Obama’s criticism is very much the opposite of the truth.

Starting with the matter of violence, men are more likely than women to be victims of assault. Moreover, as  The New American recently reported and contrary to conventional wisdom, women in America commit domestic violence more frequently than men do.

The matter of “underrepresentation” is an interesting one. While what the First Lady says is true, skewing the picture is what she doesn’t say: Everybody is underrepresented in something.'