Michelle Bachmann is urging voters to embrace the idea of a "strong woman in the White House." She told a crowd in Iowa: "We need a strong woman to turn this country around, right?"
An Associated Press article quotes, without comment, reaction, judgment, or irony, longtime Iowa residents Margaret Bickers and Mary Davenport. "Women are just more passionate than the men," Bickers told a reporter. "We need a woman who is not afraid to vocalize that passion and effect change."
"It takes a woman to get things done," Davenport chimed in. Both said they were inclined to caucus for Bachmann.
Regarding that last statement: I wonder if the news report would have been written the same way if the the person quoted had said, "It takes a man to get things done," or "a Jew," or "a Catholic," or "a Muslim."
The news story adds: "Bachmann dispenses warm hugs as readily as simple handshakes. She'll sometimes run her hand along another woman's back during conversations, extended contact her male challengers tend to avoid."
Tamara Scott, who runs the Iowa chapter of Concerned Women for America, told a crowd: "Gutsy has never been so gorgeous."
http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-plays-gender-card-iowa-gop-vote-nears-140934217.html
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I sense that a tired re-hashing of the campaign slogan from last election, "Man Up" is in the works.
The "Man Up" slogan was an epic fail, I am guessing that this new one, "It takes a woman to get things done" will also be an epic fail.
"We need a strong woman to turn this country around, right?"
--- Wrong.
"Women are just more passionate than the men," Bickers told a reporter. "We need a woman who is not afraid to vocalize that passion and effect change."
--- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Teddy Roosevelt were not passionate about their convictions and were afraid to take action? Only the female mind and mouth could voice such beliefs.
Those touchy-feely rationalized comments by women supporting social conservative 'man-up' Michelle are as irrational and sexist as if hypothetically a man were to claim only males have a sense of direction since men have a linear shaped sex organ and are not going around and around in circles.
I hope Margaret and Mary don't drive.
Aharon
meet the New Boss
same as the Old Boss
"She'll sometimes run her hand along another woman's back during conversations"
She sounds seriously creepy.
"It takes a white,heterosexual,MAN to get things done."-Ya,I can picture a mob coming to castrate me if i said that.
"She'll sometimes run her hand along another woman's back during conversations"
...course if a male canidate does that...?
It's a bit funny because Michelle Bachmann has never been a true social conservative and most of the religious far-right on the Internet doesn't talk about her or hates her. Only the neoconservatibe/libertarian/uber-rich mainstream "right" loves her.
Which is why I never trust Republicans or Democrats. Democrats have sold their soul for race denialism and feminism whereas Republicans have sold their soul for money. There is an alliance between big corporations and big government and neither are different in social issues. Both are variants of liberalism. Only the MSM could make you think that a libertarian like Bachmann is "far-right".
As a feminist, I also find comments like this annoying. What counts is the candidate's positions and experience, not his or her gender.
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