Journal entry for October 2, 2001
Today's summary: A female senator who's against women's suffrage?!
(Imagine that sentence above being pronounced a la Charlton Heston:
"A planet where apes evolved from men?!")
I'm not sure how long this
link will work since it's a news website, so here's a few choice
quotes from this female Arizona senator, Kay O'Connor.
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"I'm an old-fashioned woman," Sen. Kay O'Connor told The
Kansas City Star. "Men should take care of women, and if men
were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote...
I think the 19th Amendment, while it's not an evil in and
of itself, is a symptom of something I don't approve of."
O'Connor said she does vote. But she said she believes that
if men had been protecting the best interests of women, then
women would not be forced to cast ballots and serve in the
Legislature. Instead, they could stay home, raise families
and tend to domestic duties, she said.
"If I don't get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home
to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren,"
she said. "And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and
my husband asks me to quit, I would."
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I'm just dumbfounded. I mean, I'm also laughing my @$$ off due
to the sheer irony, but I'm still dumbfounded. I had assumed it
was a joke, but it's been reported by multiple newsfeeds. I'm sure
that already her PR people are trying to downplay her statements.
Hee hee hee.
As my coworker Skarlett pointed out, of course she's entitled to
her own opinion. I agree of course... but, it just astounds me that
she picked THAT particular career. That's what I find most amusing.
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