Posted by mandewilkes on Uncategorized
We Know Better
Yes: Sarah Palin has, only a couple of weeks into her candidacy, been good for women. But not in the way you’d think. What she’s done is to bring out of the woodwork the millions of women who know better - you can’t have it all, at least not all at once.
Women of Palin’s generation, for the most part, remain hypnotized by feminism, by decades of browbeaten, brainwashed declarations that women can - should - have it all. But those women’s daughters, having looked from the outside in at their mothers’ breathless juggle, have begun to break the “have it all” spell.
In the past several days, as Palin has cast her kids as floats in the “I’ve-got-it-all” parade, I’ve received an outpouring of email from women who know better. Their sanctimony - sanctioned rightfully by Dr. Laura - has evaporated into downright anger. These women - this woman - responsibly gather our ducks in a row, so that one day soon we’ll make deserving homes for children. We can’t wait to start a family, and yet, we’re waiting.
The greatest lesson our mothers taught us was an unwitting message: You can’t have it all. We listened.
And then Sarah Palin makes hackneyed remarks about “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” and pretends that all women strive to be like her. That used to be so, but no longer. We watched our mothers. We know better.