{"id":323,"date":"2007-01-12T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/12\/the-tofu-ceiling\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:51:03","slug":"the-tofu-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"The Tofu Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unmarried, “child-free” career woman is a Democrat, statistically speaking (women without children vote overwhelmingly Democrat; women with children tend to be Republican).\u00a0 And it’s an electoral truism that African-Americans vote left.<\/p>\n

Feminists – both equity and identity feminists, and the distinction is a very meaningful one – flocked to the left, the Democrats, because of the left’s purported openness to women in non-traditional roles – like, for example, working women who choose career over family.\u00a0 The Democrats, the saw went, treated these women better.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, those minority, female overachievers aren’t Democrats.<\/p>\n

Barbara Boxer took a swipe at one of America’s two foremost black working women, and the most powerful black woman in US government history, dinging Condi Rice<\/a> – a woman who is in every way Boxer’s better – for not having children<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Boxer was wholly in character for her party – New York’s own two Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, were predictably opportunistic – but the Golden State lawmaker earned special attention for the tasteless jibes she aimed at Rice.<\/p>\n

Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer.<\/p>\n

“Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,” Boxer said. “My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand, it’s Barbara Boxer – one of the stupidest people to ever serve in the Senate,\u00a0and with the departure of Mark Dayton perhaps that body’s biggest embarassment.<\/p>\n

On the other hand – what’s it gonna be, Democrats?\u00a0 If women don’t have children, does it devalue them, as Boxer would seem to believe?\u00a0 Because you can’t have it both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unmarried, “child-free” career woman is a Democrat, statistically speaking (women without children vote overwhelmingly Democrat; women with children tend to be Republican).\u00a0 And it’s an electoral truism that African-Americans vote left. Feminists – both equity and identity feminists, and the distinction is a very meaningful one – flocked to the left, the Democrats, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}