Salon Feminist Worries That Michelle Obama Will Be Too Much Mommy And Not Enough Activist
Here we go.
The far left feminist types are already wringing their little paws over their worries that Michelle Obama won’t be feminist enough once she gets to Washington:
I don’t mean to suggest that I’m not as taken by the mommy and fashion stuff as everyone else. It’s great that Michelle Obama is both a snazzy dresser and a terrific parent. Her solid, steely beauty, her innate sense of style and her obvious devotion to her children are among the many attractive things about her—along with her humor, her capacity for self-deprecation, her cool confidence, her sense of self, her commitment to the community in which she grew up, her thorough and very polished education, her challenging and rigorous career choices, her good, strong, fiercely held views on America, race and politics, her protection of an identity outside of her husband’s and how damn pretty she is.
Not all of these qualities will be easily transported to Washington, and some of the most extraordinary of them—the ones that set her apart from many of her predecessors in the East Wing—are already falling victim to a nostalgic complacency about familial roles, and to an apparent commitment to re-creating Camelot with an African-American cast, but little modern tweaking of the role of wife and mother.
Heh. Camelot? Priceless.
The article is windy and overly long (to read the whole thing is an exercise in intellectual masochism) but if you can suffer through it check it out. It’s amusing to see this starting already. Being a mom is a bad thing, you see.
I have a feeling that the far left will be getting their feelings hurt on a fairly regular basis once Obama is in office and they discover that he - and his wife - can’t and won’t pander to their every whim. The Obamas, after all, won’t have the luxury to wallow in idealistic fantasy any more.
Unlike the far left, they’ll have to deal with reality. And reality is something the left tends to ignore or resent at the best of times.
This could be fun. More squealing from the left to commence soon.
