{"id":3571,"date":"2005-08-22T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/22\/go-home-and-take-care-of-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2005-08-22T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T19:24:51","slug":"go-home-and-take-care-of-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/go-home-and-take-care-of-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is really a classic of having-it-both-ways feminism. Cindy Sheehan complains about people telling her to take care of her kids have made her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/cindy-sheehan\/go-home-and-take-care-of-_b_6039.html\">a victim of sexism:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe as mothers need to stop buying into the load of misogynistic crap that our children need our constant presence in their lives so they can thrive and grow&#8230;It is up to us Moms to make sure our children are whole and safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet she only has an audience because she&#8217;s a Holy Mom. This is one strange woman.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate question here, leaving aside Sheehan&#8217;s hypocrisy, is whether the US is safer in the long run with a democratic regime running Iraq or with Saddam in charge. As long as I can remember, the American left has argued that you can&#8217;t have peace without justice, and Saddam was anything but just. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad that so many of my former comrades have abandoned their principles for cheap shots at the Republican president who beat their candidates at the polls. Democratic elections don&#8217;t always produce the results we like, but they&#8217;re generally better than the alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope that I will live to see a day when the American left breaks ranks with the Buchananite isolationists and returns to its core values.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really a classic of having-it-both-ways feminism. Cindy Sheehan complains about people telling her to take care of her kids have made her a victim of sexism: We as mothers need to stop buying into the load of misogynistic crap that our children need our constant presence in their lives so they can thrive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/go-home-and-take-care-of-your-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Home and Take Care of Your Kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-VB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}