Who is Amy Glass and why does National Review’s Charles W. Cooke wish to offer up a challenge? Well, this happened:
Pretty sure feminism doesn't validate Amy Glass's choice to write this: http://t.co/8JOkdixH6U
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 25, 2014
As Twitchy reported, “feminist” (and apparent Hilary “just a mom” Rosen wannabe) Amy Glass penned a piece of dreck that sneered at moms and motherhood. Listen up, moms! You totally “lack real accomplishments” and what you do is not “important” and it’s not “real work.”
Just a mom baking cookies and stuff! Silly moms. Evidently using your womb means that you cannot use your brain thereafter in perpetuity. Wow! You’ve come a long way, baby!
https://twitter.com/dangainor/status/427151468140171264
Heh.
Cooke continued and destroyed the contemptuous (and contemptible) Ms. Glass handily:
My Mum speaks five + languages and is an expert on autism. She stayed at home to raise me and my sister. Just called to tell her she's dumb.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 25, 2014
Bam.
So, cooking, cleaning, scrubbing toilets, laundry, washing floors, looking after children are "easy," "unimportant" — not "real work."
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Here's the deal: I will pay for the two of us to go anywhere in the country and meet nannies and the like who are doing just those things.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
(Sometimes for 10, 12, 15 hours a day, just like mothers do. And, of course, many of them are mothers as well.)
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
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In exchange, Amy, you will read your essay out to those people and explain to them why their roles are unimportant.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Thing is, in your follow-up post, you wrote that Beyonce was alright because she could hire other people to do her "worthless" tasks.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
But those people that she hires? Well, they're doing many of the tasks that you disdain on Beyonce's behalf. So, it's no better.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Nannies? Cooks? Cleaners? Well, they're just losers who, like Sisyphus, indulge only in work that isn't "worthwhile."
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Let's go and read your words to those people. I'll pay for the trip, and for the first self-help book you read when you have your breakdown.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Deal?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Make it happen, please. Perhaps a dose of reality will cure Ms. Glass of her smug disdain.
@charlescwcooke Thx, on behalf of myself and the other stay-at-home moms I know.
— Colette Moran (@ColetteMoran) January 26, 2014
@ColetteMoran It bothers the hell out of me. My Mum is a feminist, an educated woman, a teacher. She was also a stay-at-home Mum.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
@ColetteMoran My Mum left the feminist movement when it told her that leaving teaching to be a mother wasn't an acceptable choice.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 26, 2014
Ding, ding, ding! That’s it right there. Alleged feminists claim they are For the Women ™; They are anything but. They only approve of certain choices and certain women. Those who embrace femininity and, worse, motherhood (the horror!) are considered lesser.
“Feminists” like Ms. Glass prove one thing: There is a glass ceiling that still needs to be shattered. The “feminist” Left continues to hold women down by disdaining motherhood and treating mothers with the utmost contempt.
There is no such glass ceiling on the Right. Conservatives honor and respect women. They applaud motherhood as the great gift and important job that it is. Being a mother is not a detriment. It is an attribute in and of itself and the rewards are priceless.
But keep sneering and demeaning, “feminists.” That’s totally empowering.
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