President Obama Jokes That It Takes a Wife “10 Years to Train a Man.” Ha?

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-10-07 03:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'Policywise, it's easy to argue that Barack Obama is a feminist president. The first bill he signed was for equal pay. He launched a White House task force to fight sexual assault and ensured mandatory contraception coverage in Obamacare, a decision he has had to fight for. So why does the president keep making sexist jokes casting his wife in the role of the mommy who has to take care of him?

The Obamas celebrated their 22nd anniversary last week, an occasion the president noted during a visit to an Indiana steel plant with a joke recorded by Rebecca Sinderbrand of the Washington Post:
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It's far from the first time Obama has made himself the man-child to Michelle's nag. Last year, he joked that he quit smoking "because I'm scared of my wife." In a 2013 interview with Vogue, Michelle Obama said her husband has taught her to relax more. He replied by saying, "And what Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order. Being on time. Hanging up your clothes. Being intentional about planning time with your kids."'

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Why am I not surprised that Michelle wears the pants in their relationship?

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2014-10-07 16:43

At first, as I was reading this, I was surprised it was by Amanda Marcotte. I thought, "How refreshing! Even a hardcore misandrist like Marcotte can see how Obama's statements are wrong."

Then I skimmed to the end, and realized that she doesn't care at all about men being denigrated. What she cares about is men internalizing the denigration, and causing a pygmaleon effect (or self-fulfilling prophecy). She's afraid that boys and men are impressioned by seeing males in the media acting like useless morons, and that this will lead to men becoming lazy, stupid, oafs which depend on women.

There you have it folks. Feminism, because sexist jokes which insult men and compare them to domestic animals. . . oppress women! Riiiiiiiight. *Eye Roll*

It never ceases to amaze me how they twist male issues into a victim-fest for women like that.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2014-10-07 17:17