"They're at home, doing the laundry"

[phantom power]

“It’s not easy to be a spouse of an elected official,” Kasich continued. “You know, they’re at home, doing the laundry and doing so many things while we’re up here on the stage getting applause, right? They don’t often share in it. And it is hard for the spouse to hear the criticism and to put up with the travel schedule and to have to be at home taking care of the kids. And where is the politician? Out on the road.”

This is the problem Republicans have with women--and frankly with every other traditionally dispossessed group with whom they tank in the polls. Kasich was trying to say nice things about the women in male Republican candidates' lives. The mundane but sincere point he was trying to make is obvious.

But these people are so steeped in the normative language of oppression (to use academic jargon) that they can't help themselves.

Conservatives know they have an impending demographic implosion on their hands. They think they can just retool their message and the faces of their candidates to overcome it. But it's not going to be a simple matter of rebranding. The latent contempt for anyone who isn't a white male is woven into the very fabric of their being.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/theyre-at-home-doing-laundry-by.html

[frogmarch]

1. Barefoot and pregnant, doin' the laundry and

warshin' them dishes, and all them other things God created women for.

[liberal N proud]

2. Kasich is as sexist as the next conservative

I feel for the women who are married to and fall under the spell of these people. It is a waste of a valuable life to chain (not in the literal sense) a person to only being able to do certain things because they were born one sex or another.

I expect my wife to be my equal (she lets me say that).

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Yep . . . that's what I do all day.

Laundry. Cooking. Cleaning. Birthing. That's all that me and my magic uterus are capable of . . .

[Kath1]

6. Hey, me too.

LOL!!!

[pinboy3niner]

4. How does Kasich explain...

...Mr. Mom Jeans?

[Generic Other]

5. the wives are washing the contempt out of their husband's clothes

Must smell to be them.