Obama Panders to Women by Insulting Men
From Former foes Clinton, Obama present picture of unity (6/28/08):
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced, praised each other and locked hands in unity Friday, hoping to persuade legions of still-skeptical Clinton backers to rally around her one-time rival.
“She rocks. That’s the point I’m trying to make,” a grinning Obama told the throng of 4,000 squeezed into a soccer field in the small western New Hampshire town of Unity…
Both candidates said their six-month rivalry, which ended early this month when the Illinois senator clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, was history.
“We may have started on separate paths, but today our paths have merged,” Clinton said. “Today our hearts are set on the same destination for America.”
Obama spoke of how their campaigns had shattered barriers, and how they faced gender and racial bias.
But, he said, because of Clinton’s campaign, “My daughters and all your daughters will know there’s no barrier to who they are. … They will take for granted women can do anything that the boys can do, and do it better, and do it in heels. I still don’t know how she does it in heels.”
Sigh…the Democratic Party mantra on gender sure gets tiresome. A few points:
1) Obama says that because of Clinton’s campaign, “My daughters and all your daughters will know there’s no barrier to who they are.” Not true–Obama’s daughters and the young women today do not face any barriers, and they already knew it.
2) All things being equal, I did think it would be nice to have a woman president. Why? For one, yes, it would’ve been nice for my daughter to see a woman president in addition to all the women senators, governors, etc.–not a big deal, but a nice thing. They’ll be one soon enough.
More importantly, a woman president might actually be able to do things to help men and fathers without having her hands tied by fear of being accused of being “sexist.” Clinton, to her credit, did say a few things about the problems faced by low-income noncustodial fathers, and might have been able to help a bit had she been elected. (To learn more, see my co-authored column Hillary Clinton’s Youth Opportunity Agenda Will Help Low-Income Fathers, Black Press USA Network, 1/25/08).
3) Obama said, “They will take for granted women can do anything that the boys can do, and do it better.” Of course–the ladies aren’t equal to men, they’re better. I’ve never understood why some women have this great and unending desire to be told that they’re better than men and to put men down. Obama, a smart politician, is pandering to this desire.
4) Nice that Obama is telling boys that the girls are better, given that girls are already doing so much better than boys in school.
5) “Obama spoke of how their campaigns had shattered barriers, and how they faced gender and racial bias.” Hillary faced no significant “gender bias.” As I’ve said before, she does get attacked for a lot of stupid things, but that’s anti-Clinton bias, not gender bias. How do we know? Because Bill Clinton always got attacked far more viciously (and often more unjustifiably) than Hillary did.
6) Does Obama face racial bias? Sure, but I think that for every racist who doesn’t want a black president there are five people like me who, all things being equal, would like to see a black president.
Glenn Sacks, www.GlennSacks.com
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4 comments
“She rocks. That’s the point I’m trying to make,”
She rocks?!!? Is this a presidential campaign to become the Commander in Chief of the greatest, most powerful nation on earth — or an MTV audition tape?
HB
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
It’s rebellion against God’s plan. Plain and simple. Once you understand that God has placed the husband over the wife, the reasoning for female desire to reverse that order becomes plain as day. Their flesh hates to be in submission to the opposite sex, just as the flesh of men hates to be in submission to God.
Of course, if you reject God’s hierarchy, and I don’t know if you’re Christian, Jewish or other, Glenn, I can understand why you might be confused by this desire of so many women not to be just equals with men, but better.
To me, though, the reason is as elementary as 1 + 1. God has a hierarchy and the flesh of women don’t like their place in it.
Most Christians don’t take that logic to such extremes. It’s perfectly fair, for example, to take that stuff in Genesis about childbearing as a simple practical reality–pregnancy is basically not optional for women who want to have sex when there is no reliable birth control, and women will have that urge and as a result are going to be dependent on the men in their lives.
It’s not something decreed as something women must put up with always and under all circumstances per se; if we took that too literally we’d outlaw any medical assistance against pain during and after childbirth, under the theory that God decreed women must undergo such pains. If we also took it too literally, we’d say that birth control should not be allowed–which is believed by some Christian groups (and is officially taught by the Catholic Church, even if often unobserved and with even some Bishops objecting) but is actively resisted by most non-Catholic Christians.
Also, if we read Ephesians carefully, it very clearly lays out strong responsibilities to the man toward his wife, including respecting and loving her always, and seeing her as one flesh with him and with the same love Christ showed the Church (verses 25-33 immediately following the part Kevin quotes), with compassion, mercy, forgiveness, respect, and selflessness.
Here’s a pretty good article on it. And here’s a more scholarly one.
It’s not clear to me that any of this should lead to women automatically resenting men and wanting to be superior to men anyway. Indeed, I don’t even see how that follows, especially as regards relationships between men and women who aren’t married.
Hmmm, so if a woman is to be obedient to her husband, how does that apply to her giving a crap about any other man? He said submit to and desire your husband. This means everyone else should be fair game.
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