The Daily Campus

Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: Commentary

Sanders' argument implies that the father is an insufficient caregiver for his children in times when he is needed. Sanders failed to mention Todd Palin as well as their daughter's fiancée at all within her commentary as if they do not bear any responsibility within the structure of their families or even as if they are out of the picture entirely, which is evidently not the case. It is disheartening to read something like this today, written by a fellow female classmate, as I feel it highlights a certain troubling hypocrisy in our society.

Frankly, it makes me ill to at one moment hear that women are coequal with men, thus deserving reciprocal respect - yet in another moment read that women are irresponsible, unfit, and doomed to "sloppy work" if they so choose to compete in the same arena as men while having a family.

Have we forgotten or ignored what makes a healthy, loving family work? It's important that both parents are involved in their children's lives, that a balance is reached and communication is open. Why do we insist on championing successful women in our rhetoric when it feels appropriate, yet proceed to tear them down in some perverse effort to send them back to their proper place in the home?


- Mary Anders, 7th-semester political science and philosophy double major

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