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In reply to the discussion: No, Ms. Coulter. Affirmative Action Was No 'Silver Spoon' for Barack Obama [View all]SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)it's just stunning how this rhetoric being bandied about these days is thinly masquerading as exactly that sentiment--it's just a semantics game. Where does coulter think she would be, unmarried woman that she is, if AA didn't exist to say that women are full, complete beings in their own right and as such, have a right to determine for themselves their own professional destinies away from attachment to the male if that is their desire? It's because women were not allowed in traditionally "male" professions (anything other than nursing, teaching and secretarial jobs). One only has to watch "Mad Men" to see that. And it wasn't as nostalgic with the great clothes that that show is putting forward. Better still, watch "Mona Lisa Smile". That movie should make a thinking woman really angry and relieved that this isn't 1952.
She'd have been steered towards being a secretary/clerk or a nurse or a teacher by the time she was old enough to determine she wanted a career in law. It's because of AA that she has been able to enjoy the freedom to choose her profession and she'd be a fool to think otherwise. Perhaps she knows, but she's playing to her audience who don't have a good track record of knowing the truth; rather, they preferred being told what to think and that's what makes her dangerous.