#susan m collins

A response to Kirsten Gillibrand: ‘The American Dream Is Not True for So Many Women’

I was logging into Yahoo Mail when I seen this news story.

And here is my response to some of that crap:

…Women are made differently [than men], and because of those differences, we can offer something unique…

Um, what? Having ovaries, a vagina and lactating breasts means you can offer something unique to congress? If she meant “built different psychologically” than there goes the feminist claim that the men and women are interchangeable and gender is some made up social construct.

…If we had 51 percent of women in Congress, we wouldn’t have spent the last four years debating contraception…

The amount of women that oppose forcing government and healthcare insurance to pay for contraception is roughly equal to men. The amount of women that oppose abortion are roughly equal to men.

I always hear women say, 'I’m not ready,’ … If a woman is running for office, she feels she has to have a PhD in international economics to talk about trade policy. A man just feels he needs to drive a Honda.

If women need special encouragement to apply for leadership positions before they emotionally “feel” ready, and men do not, than this is a statement that males are better leaders. Leaders aren’t people who need support, encouragement, and a red carpet laid out for them; they take the bull by the horns and “take” control.

I do however agree with her statement about daycare being too expensive. But raising minimum wage will do nothing about that except cause inflation. And we do need better/cheaper daycare, so that women can be independent (rather than parasitically leaching off their working husband) and be motivated to have children. As it is, women can choose to be useless stay-at-home mothers popping out babies at the expense of her husband, or she can be a childless career woman.