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In the article and in the comments. First Traister, then AKA in the comments reducing jumping on Michelle Obama for being a well rounded person and not a simply a corporate bot.
As usual you attempt to smear me by critiquing some post I did not write rather than the post I actually did write. I certainly did not complain that Michelle Obam is a well-rounded person. I have every reason to believe that she is. However, all my comments were based upon her speech alone and not her "well-roundedness" which I didn't see as well-presented in her speech as it could have been. The speech seemed designed to promote Michelle Obama as wife, mother, and to complement her brother's speech that she is a woman of good works.
Whether or not one gets to become a "corporate bot" rather depends upon the position one starts out in in life. The truly poor have little opportunity to be corporate bots and are often fortunate to find a job that doesn't involve physical labor. I am certainly no fan of corporatism or the advantages it generally confers on people who started out with advantages in the first place.
However, law school, especially graduating from Ivy to Ivy is an achievement even for middle class girls and I would like to have seen more emphasis on those types of accomplishments in Michelle's life. It seems to be you who are worried that she might be perceived as a corporate bot. Just what would you call her administrative position with the hospital?
It is funny (not haha funny) and sad to me that so many reduce feminism to having a corporate or political career or at the very least competing n the same ground men have traditionally dominated.
Anyone who reads the things I have written in Broadsheet knows that I don't do that. Just yesterday I was defending women's choices on whether to breastfeed or not, but the breast is best for babies.
I have often pointed out to privileged feminist -- so many of whom now occupy positions in women's studies programs -- that life for working class women may mean that they have a different view of feminism.
In fact, I rather liked Michelle Obama's speech. I like Pleasantville both before and after technicolor. I can see the good and bad of both ways of life.
Why don't you critque the post I actually wrote and not the one I didn't?
