According to our president, “The secretary of defense must be a man of vision who can see threats still over the horizon and prepare our nation to meet them. Bob Gates is the right man to meet both of these critical challenges.”
It might not be his overt intention to disenfranchise women, but it’s obvious that when President Bush thinks about the prototypical secretary of defense, he thinks of a man. And I wonder, how does that kind of thinking affect Jenna and Barbara? How will it affect our children?
I know, right?!?
Our president has a lot of very traditional ideas about gender roles in general. This is nothing new. The irony is that he really believes that he has the highest respect for women. Most women would recognize his type of respect as being almost exactly the same as all that respect that men had for women in the 50s. The “return to family values” is of dubious gain for women, but I’m off on a tangent now.
Feeling a bit cynical, all of the sudden.