Comments on: The Work/Mothering Cohesiveness of Sarah Palin http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/ Growing Girls With Purpose Thu, 24 May 2012 00:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Shauna http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-6263 Shauna Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:03:47 +0000 http://thegirlrevolution.com/?p=3405#comment-6263 I know that we may differ of politics - but in the end we are all women, mothers trying to make the world a better place one day at a time (can you hear the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background) and when we stop attacking eachother and start being united we will move mountains. I don't care if your Democrat, Republican, or a member of the "Elect a Naked Mole Rat" party - I respect you for getting up, getting out and telling Barbie to "suck it" as you shatter the glass ceiling with a Baby Bjorn strapped to your front and spit up down your back! Whew. I got a little fired up. What's a little hormonal meltdown between friends? :) I know that we may differ of politics – but in the end we are all women, mothers trying to make the world a better place one day at a time (can you hear the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background) and when we stop attacking eachother and start being united we will move mountains. I don’t care if your Democrat, Republican, or a member of the “Elect a Naked Mole Rat” party – I respect you for getting up, getting out and telling Barbie to “suck it” as you shatter the glass ceiling with a Baby Bjorn strapped to your front and spit up down your back!

Whew. I got a little fired up. What’s a little hormonal meltdown between friends? :)

]]> By: Tracee http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-6262 Tracee Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:08:17 +0000 http://thegirlrevolution.com/?p=3405#comment-6262 Full disclosure, I'm a Democrat, and I couldn't believe how many democratic feminist women were arguing against her ability to govern and mother. It made me question who was really on my team. And whose team I was on. I agree with Shauna - if you're out there trying to change the world . . . you're being the best mother you can be. Ellen Gerstein posted this lovely post about work and mothering today on Facebook http://jaelithej.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-my-friends-who-work-outside-home.html My 2016 fantasy involves a contest between a Democratic Woman and a Republican Woman. Wouldn't that really change the world! Breath. of. fresh. air. New life. Full disclosure, I’m a Democrat, and I couldn’t believe how many democratic feminist women were arguing against her ability to govern and mother. It made me question who was really on my team. And whose team I was on.

I agree with Shauna – if you’re out there trying to change the world . . . you’re being the best mother you can be.

Ellen Gerstein posted this lovely post about work and mothering today on Facebook http://jaelithej.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-my-friends-who-work-outside-home.html

My 2016 fantasy involves a contest between a Democratic Woman and a Republican Woman. Wouldn’t that really change the world! Breath. of. fresh. air. New life.

]]> By: Shauna http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-6261 Shauna Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:47:17 +0000 http://thegirlrevolution.com/?p=3405#comment-6261 I think in this post, I may stand out as a dissenter, but I love Sarah Palin. I agree with her policies on economics and I am pretty far right and conservative myself. I was amazed how often I felt myself defending her choice to be a working mother. I found myself explaining, loudly, that maybe the best thing as a mother she could do for her children was to try and provide a better world for them. I find it amazing that so often people think that working mothers are selfish - I think anytime you put your children first, which I think Sarah Palin did, it doesn't matter if you work from home, you are a stay at home mom, you work in an office building or you pull your kids around in a little red wagon trying to change the world, you're being the best mom you can be. I think in this post, I may stand out as a dissenter, but I love Sarah Palin. I agree with her policies on economics and I am pretty far right and conservative myself. I was amazed how often I felt myself defending her choice to be a working mother. I found myself explaining, loudly, that maybe the best thing as a mother she could do for her children was to try and provide a better world for them. I find it amazing that so often people think that working mothers are selfish – I think anytime you put your children first, which I think Sarah Palin did, it doesn’t matter if you work from home, you are a stay at home mom, you work in an office building or you pull your kids around in a little red wagon trying to change the world, you’re being the best mom you can be.

]]> By: Rebecca http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-6260 Rebecca Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:58 +0000 http://thegirlrevolution.com/?p=3405#comment-6260 The idea of working at home seems awful to me at this point. As you know Tracee I've been home for about 2 and a half months now, and while it's nice (and I feel very privileged to have this opportunity), frankly I can't wait to have work outside. If I were writing a book like Sarah Palin, I too would want to go somewhere totally by myself, and I only have 1 toddler, not a large family like she does. As much as I disagree with her on so many issues, I absolutely love the way she shattered the Republican and far right (it's hard for me to separate those) patriarchal complex. The idea of working at home seems awful to me at this point. As you know Tracee I’ve been home for about 2 and a half months now, and while it’s nice (and I feel very privileged to have this opportunity), frankly I can’t wait to have work outside. If I were writing a book like Sarah Palin, I too would want to go somewhere totally by myself, and I only have 1 toddler, not a large family like she does.

As much as I disagree with her on so many issues, I absolutely love the way she shattered the Republican and far right (it’s hard for me to separate those) patriarchal complex.

]]> By: Jenny http://thegirlrevolution.com/the-workmothering-cohesiveness-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-6259 Jenny Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:29:41 +0000 http://thegirlrevolution.com/?p=3405#comment-6259 I was never a fan of her. She seemed kinda fake to me. I was never a fan of her. She seemed kinda fake to me.

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