“I was 40 years old. I had a life... I didn’t want to do that."

Well, and if some did not want to celebrate her for sharing her feelings, then there probably wouldn't be folks looking to take another point of view.

Yes. It is normal. So, while we don't have to criticize her, we also don't have to give her a cookie, and put her on a magazine cover, looking like a sainted figure.

That's going to produce a backlash, especially from a tabloid press, starved for a story.

This is what happens when you try to tightly control the story/media and always portray yourself as the best, smartest, newest thing going.

 

Also happens when you have a mayor who wants to reinvent NYC based on
his socialist beliefs.

 

Works right into the Republican establishment's defense of women, doesn't it?

 

The women in the work place has all of a sudden become a hot
button topic. Equal pay etc, etc. Not sure where it's coming from
now or why but there is a definite undercurrent.

 

Great opportunity for a Republican to have a "Sister Souljah moment".

 

Suddenly become a hot topic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

 

Obviously it's been around for a while but at times it's
a back burner issue and other it moves to the red hot
front burner.

 

"N.Y. politician does what every politician in history has done."

 

Marx was all about pre-kindgergarten.

 

A better headline would have incorporated "1st World Problems"

Ask a Mom who is working 2 part time jobs because no one hires full time any more so they can avoid paying benefits if they'd rather stay home with their children than work. Many working parents work as often as possible because they have to, not because they want to. Mrs Mayor sounds as if her self worth is tied to who she is in the work place, not who she is at home. That's good for her and many educated career oriented women (and men), but that's a 1% percenter's problem. My wife and the mother of our children is a professional in a demanding job and works with more than a dozen similarly,situated women, attorneys all, and 90% of them would rather maternity leave last 4-5 years. All of them have children and most are under 40.


They all want to work to one degree or another, but all of them, except 1 who has a house husband, would rather be with their children than working. All of them need to work financially, not for self esteem or personal fulfullment.

The Post's headline is wrong, but as long as the quotes are accurate, Mrs Mayor made this an issue, not the newspapers

 

Yes, New Yorkers of all stripes miss that well-known barrel of joy and frivolity....





"Come on, God damn it, you people, laugh!"

 

The dude won by the largest landslide in several decades for that office, yet "nobody actually liked him?" Yeah, right, that makes sense.