The Alleged War on Women

By Amber Glasglow, Vice President

Published in The Voice on February 13, 2014

Go ahead liberals, set up a straw man. We all know that if you want to destroy the reputation of an enemy, set up a straw man. It’s easy to knock down. Setting up the straw man is an argument that is a logical fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. Accusing the Republicans of waging a war on women is setting up a straw man.

           

Governor Susana Martinez

In politics, there are organizations and websites that seek out weaknesses of the opposition, and then create a spin story, a talking point, that your minions can use to assail the positions of the adversaries. Recently, the liberals have been trotting out the expression “The War on Women” as often as they can.

           

When Mike Huckabee made a speech to Republicans describing women as, “smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything anyone else can do…” that quote was ignored by liberals. When he said, “Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women,” that quote was also ignored.

           

Huckabee made a mistake. The comprehensive thought he was expressing was too long for a sound bite. It was more than one sentence long. It had complex concepts that require thinking. This was a mistake, because the liberals in the media wouldn’t follow the whole thought. They got stuck on one tiny sound bite, “they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system,” and they took it totally out of context, and accused all Republicans of being misogynists.

Dana Loesch

           

Well, maybe the liberal women who are all up in arms should be accused of misandry.

           

A recent editorial here accuses the Republicans of allowing uneducated, chauvinistic statements to govern their policy agendas and ideals. This is ridiculous. No examples of a Republican misogynist policy was given, because there are none. Instead, the attention was drawn to only 20 % of the elected officials are women. What connection does that have to Republicans?

             

Let’s look at the governors.  There are five female governors in the United States, and four of them are Republicans.  There are plenty of Republican women who must not have gotten the memo that there is a war on them.  Many US Representatives including Michele Bachman (MN), Renee Elmers (NC), Virginia Foxx (VA), Kristi Noem (SD), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), US Senators Kelly Ayotte (NH), Susan Collins (ME), Deb Fischer (NE), and Lisa Murkowski (AK), Governors Jan Brewer (AZ), Mary Fallin (OK), Nikki Haley (SC), Susana Martinez (NM), and outspoken conservatives like Deneen Borelli, Ann Coulter, Dana Loesch, Sarah Palin, Phyllis Schlafly, and yours truly have managed well during this alleged war.

           

Asians earn more than whites.  Does that mean they have some advantage, or that whites are being discriminated against? In the NBA 80% of the players are African-American, while in the NFL that number is 65%. Ninety-seven percent of the pre-school and kindergarten teachers are women. Should we feel bad about any of that?

           

Ninety-two percent of the dieticians, nutritionists and nurses are women. Ninety-nine percent of the brick masons and septic tank cleaners are men. Wage inequality is everywhere, but people choose their own careers. I don’t want to be told I cannot be a veterinarian because there are too many women in the field. I don’t want to clean out sewage pipes. I do want equal opportunity for all, so that the man who wants to teach Kindergarten can do so, and that the woman who wants to lay brick can do so.

             

Freedom and equal opportunity for all made America great, and this is what Republicans stand for.