Ketchup

[poliphilo]

I'm slowly catching up on the convention. The BBC are showing looped highlights on their Parliamentary Channel.

Yesterday I watched Teresa Heinz Kerry. I'm sorry, but it's hard not to hear that as Heinz Ketchup- especially since the name is displayed on screen with the Heinz bit- the famous logo- dead centre.

And isn't there something slightly creepy about still dragging your dead husband's name around with you after remarriage?

A woman defined by the men in her life- the ones she's slept with, the ones she's given birth to- those wholesome, handsome sons.

And if she says anything off her own bat she's "opinionated". I liked her defence of herself on that charge, carrying the attack to the enemy. But isn't the whole enterprise, the parading of oneself as mother and sexual partner, just a little demeaning?

Look at me; See what a healthy womb I've got!

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[shellefly.livejournal.com]

But isn't the whole enterprise, the parading of oneself as mother and sexual partner, just a little demeaning?

It depends.
If that is what she wants to be - for motherhood and wifehood are both very difficult, though undervalued, jobs - then it is not demeaning.

If that is what she feels she has to be to make America happy, then it is demeaning.

I don't know which it is with her, I don't know enough about her, and as she is involved in politics, I probably never will so ... shrug ...

Of course, I prefer the Hillary example - she may be many things, but retiring and doormatlike she is NOT! :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I thought she looked uneasy.

As for Hillary, she was up there applauding with a grim, unsmiling face as if she knew the price that was being paid.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

It seems like our lack of a female president is more due to unregistered, apathetic voters than this country's true popular (as in "most of the people" not as in "trendy") political wishes. That makes me sad.