or caretaker moms or any woman really - why that conversation about the role of women in our culture and society MUST take place.

Ann Romney may have peeled back the band-aid and exposed the raw gaping wound of our cultural biases about women and our place in American culture (especially as it relates to class).

but she is a Misogynist ,as some women are . People forget enabling your 1% soldier is a choice and speaking on his behalf ,is a choice most people never have.

It sounds like she delegated the major work of raising the kids and running the household (which one?) to hired help.

I sure hope the women who work with this idiot calls him on it. Bet the women who work there got the memo not to say anything.

on working women, especially mothers.

I just thought that he was boring.

on matters of women. (or much else, for that matter)

These people still celebrate Phyllis Schlafly and the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment, for chrissakes.

Our problem as liberals is we don't educate and fight back enough. How many of us know young people that enjoy all the freedoms that we've fought for, but choose to call themselves "conservative" because they've bought into some of the GOP's false but laudible and simplistic slogans?

If it wasn't for the internet and the smarter, more curious kids abilities to fact-check the rights non-sense, we'd be in even more serious trouble as a country.

Working moms despise themselves for not staying home? That's one of the truly most ignorant statements I've ever heard. Ever. Plus, it's coming from a man, so he's not a working mom, so how can he possibly know?

Yeah, plenty of working moms might prefer not to work at all, or maybe only work part time, and most, maybe even all of them, are pretty stressed out from dealing with the job and the family, but despise themselves? I doubt it. Maybe even some of them regret the choice to work (actually, it's highly probably that some women regret the choice to work and some others regret the choice to stay home, because out of the many millions of women who have been mothers, there are always going to be some regrets somewhere) but despise themselves?

I was a SAHM, and will always defend my choice to do that, but I have never once thought that the many working moms I knew, including my own mother, felt as that idiot says they feel.

Life always involves a series of choices. Sometimes we wind up regretting some of our choices, sometimes we wonder what things would have been like had we taken another path, but quite frankly, if at any point you find you despise yourself, you'd better seek out some kind of help quickly.

And some stay at home moms hate themselves for not having careers, and some don't.

A lot of people are disasisfied with themselves for all sorts of reasons.

That said, I doubt the majority of working moms or stay-at-home moms "hate" themselves so it's hardly a thing to genralize about.

And your OP is a fine example of Faux Snooze trying to appeal to its base. The stay-at-home moms that favor the reich wing always lap it up when they're being told that career women are miserable, materialist, really don't like being with their children, etc.

But, I've heard women that I work with describe how they'd go bonkers if they had to stay with their kids all day, that Barney the dinosaur turns their brains to mush, etc. I would suppose that some of that leaks back to the stay-at-homes they interact with in their neighborhoods and families. I just wish the two sides would end this, and acknowledge that the choices (and lack of choices) that other women have determines their options, if any, and they are all to be respected. But the GOPig party loves driving wedges between Americans, and they are loving this.

Some mothers work because they have to, others work because they want to. I don't know any working mothers who despise themselves or the notion that some women prefer, and have the choice, to stay home with their children.

Why is this coming up again, now? The Republicans are trying to drive a wedge between women in the hope that they can siphon of some of those votes that now favor President Obama. It's like being a child in a nasty custody battle.

“These “anti-gender” women have it in for anyone who embraces her femininity"

What? and this is from people who have demonized every aspect of womanhood since biblical times? The people that burned witches?

dammned dangerous man