Pointing out that married women are better off than single women, Mollie Hemingway, a senior editor at The Federalist, said, “Marriage has enabled elites to have a lot of money and stability. We should show concern in extending marriage to everybody so that everybody can benefit.” She went on to tell the audience, to laughter, “Everybody go out right now, if you’re not married, go get married and that will solve all these problems.” She added, “If you care about income inequality at all, you basically have to care about marriage.” Mona Charen, a columnist, agreed, saying, “If we truly want women to thrive, we have to revive the marriage norm.” She also asserted that “because of the nature of [women’s] bodies, because they carry and raise children, that they need support and protection during that time,” which means finding a husband.Nor can a minimum wage job, professional fellator of corporate interests.
On the other hand, the panelists concurred that the social safety net won’t help low-income women. Charen said, “It’s true that a social safety net can prevent you from falling to the ground but it cannot lift you up, it cannot give you a good life.”
Light at the end of the tunnel that may not be a train racing toward you? Soon enough test tube babies (O brave new world!) will render the "Oh, I'm a fragile little flower who's BEARING YOUR CHILDREN" card unplayable & Charen & her awful ilk will have to compete on a level playing field & get real, be there every weekday 9-5 or else jobs, rather than relying on the kindnesses of husbands & strangers, & the Heritage Foundation's attempts to insure that employers always have the upper hand by imposing Bronze Age religious values on these United Snakes will come to an end. (Ha ha! Typed an unintentional April Fool's joke. All obligations for the day over.)
HOWEVER (Moments later, after reading a link.): It's traditional; like "minority outreach" panels at Conserv-O-Conferences, the turnout isn't big & the targets didn't show:
The reality, the panelists at Heritage said, is that women are less happy than they were before the feminist movement, that women enjoy domestic work, and that most moms would prefer not to work full time, if at all.
Maybe so. But it will take some convincing. The audience for these pronouncements Monday was small and mostly male, many of them apparently Heritage interns.
“Wow,” said John Hilboldt, Heritage’s lectures director, as he opened the session. “Where are all the ladies?”
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