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... but it's too bad they didn't bother to mention the controversy surrounding her refusal to pardon the guy falsely accused of molesting children along with all the other controversies they rehashed.
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''I've never walked away from a fight in my life,'' she said, voice trembling. But the combined demands of governing Massachusetts at a time of fiscal crisis, campaigning against a millionaire primary opponent, and protecting what she called ''nonnegotiable'' time with her young family were simply untenable. As she put it: ''Something had to give.''
All together now! Whaaaaaaaa!!!!!! Whaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
....if she were not facing in Mitt Romney an opponent with nearly unlimited personal resources - Swift might have defied long odds to become the first elected woman governor in Massachusetts.
That evil patriarchal man! Of course. It is the man's fault that she is giving up. He should be gracious and step aside. That way Swift can continue to keep an innocent man in jail.
Swift broke the mold but not the ceiling. Society still has a long way to go before women are fully integrated into the highest offices of business or politics.
Swift made a choice. She chose not to continue to compete. This has nothing to do with a glass ceiling. The reporter is clearly biased.
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I saw her teary press conference and just about lost my breakfast.
What wasn't shown or named - and the fact is - she was getting her ass kicked in the early polls. And I don't mean just being beaten, I mean being pimp-slapped, bent over the barbed wire fence and brutally buggared, Call-Me-Daddy, royally, size ten can of whup-ass, whipped.
And with women comprising the majority of voters, blaming this on our "evil patriarchal society" (GAGH! Gag! Choke!) is about the lamest thing I have ever heard.
She was just getting beaten. And couldn't hack it.
---- Burn, Baby, Burn ----
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Perhaps there were different ones, the one I was Washington Post and was pretty non-biased, didn't mention ceilings. She said "something has to give" when you're a working parent - didn't have anything to do with her popularity rating going from 75% to 12% [obviously] not even enough to be considered for the republican primary. Of course not, it's the demands of parenthood!
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Of course not, it's the demands of parenthood!
That evil husband she calls a man....to think...I mean really! I believe that he actually forced her to drop out for the demands of the family...Why..How could he!?!?
GASP! HORRORS! I wonder if he threadened her with DV to get her to resign? I believe he must have. After all did you see that photo? He is an evil white man? :( Gad! I believe that she better get a restraining order....
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Don't be naive, it was the post-partum depression and her husband's meany-poo unwillingness to support her! I'm sure he was forcing her to take care of the children while having an incredibly demanding job! Only a mother is under this kind of strain because of the patriarchy that her husband perpetuates! I will end every sentence with an exclamation point!
Not really, she's just a pathetic governor, and if she were any other pathetic governor nobody except their parents would care that she isn't going to campaign again. However, she's a mother, so it's the fault of our society's pressure on career mothers that made her drop out.
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She's actually internalizing her oppression. The socially constructed role of motherhood actually has her convinced that family life is some kind of nubulous obligation that she has to fulfill. Imagine the insanity of this idea!! Poor sap. (sigh...) And to think, she actually believes she is makng this choice on her own!! Everyone knows women don't make independent choices...they only think they do. Even you. Oh well. Another casualty in the war against the Western white male hegemonic paradigm.
You know, I'm beginning to think that fem-theory is so counter-intuitive and myopic that literally anyone can write it...if they can keep down their food in the process. :)
Good riddance.
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by Anonymous User on Friday March 22, @10:04AM EST (#8)
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Actually, people of all kinds hate her in Mass. because 1) she wasn't even elected! She was passed on the position from somebody who got the same thing. 2) She seems to think the whole government is there to serve her. Daycare, no toll routes in her part of town, etc...
It's appalling.
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Well, Mormon gun control advocate Mitt Romney is no great treasure either. I'd pick Libertarian Carla Howell any day. I think "small government and individual responsibility" is a better formula for men's rights than either conservative or liberal hatreds and status quos.
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"Femmunist": even better than "feminazi"; Luek or whoever thought this up, a thousand thanks!
Remember Nixon's whiny concession speech when he lost (I believe it was) the California governor's race? He was ridiculed for that for the rest of his life. But a "courageous" woman's "teary press conference" merits sympathy, to be sure.
I know I'll be unpopular for saying this, but ... step back and take a long look at how our culture and society have changed since the enactment of the "19th Amendment" in 1920 (as well as the growing success of the Infant Male Circumcision Program, which got off the ground at about the same time, and originated in the same culture/location as the "female suffrage" movement).
That this could happen in the People's Communewealth of Massachusetts may be a hopeful sign, but I'll wait for a trend before I get all excited. Frankly, at age 59 I don't really expect to see a significant reversal of the current cultural landslide toward termite-style world collectivism in my lifetime.
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