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[Heinz-Kerry]: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things. And I'm older, and my validation of what I do and what I believe and my experience is a little bit bigger — because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about."
Never mind that the only legitimate use for the term “validation” is in a conversation with your waiter about the ticket from the parking ramp. Never mind that Ms. Kerry’s relationship to holding a real job is the same as Donald Trump holding an empty juice glass glaring at the servant who hasn’t refilled it. Leave aside the delicious prospect of future pronouncements from the Reluctant First Lady (“He is a nice man, the ambassador, but he smells like a goat.” “Washington is sometimes as lovely as Paris but the people are not so stylish on the streets, and the men should not walk like they are so American, you know?” “I cure my cramps by smearing goose liver on my shins. I tell you, it works”) The big gaffe was the idea, standard to people of a certain age, that parenting is not a real job.
I heard a fascinating interview on the Medved show this week with a droning professor who lamented the failure of feminism to drive more women out of the house. She’d done a study of high-achieving women whose marriage notices were printed in the New York Times, and found that several years out, almost half had quit their jobs to stay home with the kids. Apparently they hadn’t internalized the New Truths, the Blazing Facts, the Glorious Realization that the highest calling in life is to sit in a veal pen on the 34th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper and type up depositions while Consuela teaches your children how to write their ABCs.
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[Heinz-Kerry]: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things. And I'm older, and my validation of what I do and what I believe and my experience is a little bit bigger — because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about."
Never mind that the only legitimate use for the term “validation” is in a conversation with your waiter about the ticket from the parking ramp. Never mind that Ms. Kerry’s relationship to holding a real job is the same as Donald Trump holding an empty juice glass glaring at the servant who hasn’t refilled it. Leave aside the delicious prospect of future pronouncements from the Reluctant First Lady (“He is a nice man, the ambassador, but he smells like a goat.” “Washington is sometimes as lovely as Paris but the people are not so stylish on the streets, and the men should not walk like they are so American, you know?” “I cure my cramps by smearing goose liver on my shins. I tell you, it works”) The big gaffe was the idea, standard to people of a certain age, that parenting is not a real job.
I heard a fascinating interview on the Medved show this week with a droning professor who lamented the failure of feminism to drive more women out of the house. She’d done a study of high-achieving women whose marriage notices were printed in the New York Times, and found that several years out, almost half had quit their jobs to stay home with the kids. Apparently they hadn’t internalized the New Truths, the Blazing Facts, the Glorious Realization that the highest calling in life is to sit in a veal pen on the 34th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper and type up depositions while Consuela teaches your children how to write their ABCs.
Read the whole thing.
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Lileks also writes:
... Susan Rohrbough, Head of the Information Center for Ohio University Libraries. "It annoys me that again and again we must keep defending our rights" said Rohrbough. "I don't know whether some people really want a repressed society or are just ignorant of the consequences of silencing opposing voices. Do they think that they honestly have a right to silence opposing viewpoints? This is the USA, not a third world country for crying out loud".Do you think Rohrbough is out there defending Sinclair and perhaps even inviting them to screen "Stolen Honor" at her library? Anybody want to bet?
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