Few things trigger feminists more than traditional gender roles and Republican politicians, but mix them together and hell hath no fury like a social justice warrior clutching her pearls.
Laura June wrote in a New York Magazine op-ed on Tuesday, blasting Ivanka Trump for an ad she made for her father where she told women that motherhood was the most important job a female could pursue.
From the beginning of her tirade, June has to perform mental acrobatics to even become outraged at Ivanka’s comments.
“‘The most important job any woman can have is being a mother,'” June said in the article. “Using ‘any woman’ here is just a nicer way of saying ‘all women.’ What that sentence really means is that Ivanka — and by extension, her father, whose platform the video was created to advertise — thinks that all women should have children, because it’s ‘the most important job for them.'”
Well no, that’s not what Ivanka’s saying — but like most social justice warriors, June has the privilege of spending her day finding phantom menaces to outrage her.
June has two main complaints: that men are never asked to rank fatherhood as more or less important than their jobs, and that the only women who view motherhood as the most important job aren’t single women.
First of all, June hasn’t done any of her homework about what powerful men have said about being dads. While he was in the White House, Bill Clinton said to Chelsea, “as long as you’re in this house, being president is my second most important job.”
His predecessor George W. Bush also called fatherhood his greatest responsibility, saying, “I think the most important priority for a dad is to be a dad. In my case, I might have been slightly self-absorbed at times, but when I became a dad, I only had one real job and that was to provide for these little girls.”
Plenty of famous, powerful, and important men have called fatherhood the greatest and most important role of their life. It’s just that feminists rarely care to listen to what men are actually saying; they would much rather womansplain what they think they’ve heard.
As far as women who are single, married, or somewhere in between, the most universal trait all mother’s share is unconditional love for their child — whether they grow up and become locked up behind bars or groundbreaking leaders in their field. That’s why given the opportunity to stay at home with their children or work outside the house, a majority of American women said they’d rather be a homemaker and raise their kids.
Those mothers cannot compare the work they do to a career; one involves money, while the other deals in love and the latter doesn’t come with a bottomline.
