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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:28 PM Apr 2012

Using republican philosophy...Did Ann Romney bargain her sexuality for food/shelter/security



We all know how the GOP loves to distort and take the simplest ideas to the nth degree when it suits them so.....

Ann Romney's "choice", under a GOP microscope...(if she were NOT a GOP-wife) "could" be construed to be just such a choice.

GOPers (and especially Mormons) seem to believe that sex is only for getting babies , and her payment for all that sex & all those baby boys was to be a kept woman.

Does anyone really think that a woman (of her era) who married a son-of-a-governor/rich guy really had any plan BUT to be a stay-at-home Mom?

When Ann was in college, MOST "jobs/careers" available to "us girls" were teacher/nurse/bank-teller/etc.

Why would a woman marrying into a wealthy family even plan to "work"? Back then (and today to some degree), having a "woman-of-leisure" for a wife was a status symbol for the Richie Rich types too. It PROVED to his peers that he was a man of substance who could easily afford to have the wife & kiddies hanging out at the Country Club pool & tennis courts.

"Work" for MOST modern women is about MONEY..

When a family does not have enough MONEY, the wife WORKS outside the home because outside the home jobs pay MONEY for labor.

Jobs inside the home are not paid in money.. they are "paid" in food/shelter/security.

If a family has kids and the husband/significant other makes enough MONEY, and the woman WANTS to be a stay at home, she has that CHOICE.

99.999999% of mothers these days (and for a long time) do not have that choice.
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Using republican philosophy...Did Ann Romney bargain her sexuality for food/shelter/security (Original Post) SoCalDem Apr 2012 OP
This should be fun... LadyHawkAZ Apr 2012 #1
George Bernard Shaw thought so Tom Ripley Apr 2012 #2
Thanks to the Republican destruction of the middle class get the red out Apr 2012 #3

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
3. Thanks to the Republican destruction of the middle class
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 03:14 PM
Apr 2012

No, their own policies make it a very difficult choice for mothers to make now. Ann Romney could make choices that are denied to people now because of policies made by her friends in the Republican Party.

Now there's something for her husband to run on, we got ours, you can't have yours.

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