I love reading news online. I really
do.
It’s so much fun to see how
out-of-proportion people can blow stories.
I’d say a talent I have is being
able to really see both sides of a story. It’s so easy to spin some stupid
comment someone makes on television into either a) a feminist statement or b) a
call for a hearty “Get-over-yourselves-people!” argument.
Case in point: according to Raw Story, “Fox News host and former reality TV star Rachel Campos-Duffy asserted
on Tuesday that conservatives had happier and longer marriages because liberal
women refused to make sandwiches for their husbands.”
First of all, anybody who has to
be introduced by “Fox News host and former reality TV star,” we know what we’re
getting into by continuing to read.
*Small aside: Why and how can
everybody who was ever on a reality TV show be called a reality TV star? I have no idea who this Campos-Duffy
person is. Can we just say reality TV actress?
Just being on a reality TV show does not make one a star…
Anyway, so Campos-Duffy made this
statement about how if women would just, you know, get up and make a sandwich
for their husband after sex that more marriages would not end in divorce.
OK! Cue the Oh my gawd, I cannot believe she just said that! What does she want?!
Women in the kitchen?! Women subservient?!
But do not forget the Oh, please, she just means be nice to your
husband! She’s not saying that the men shouldn’t do nice things for their wives
either! She’s just saying take care of each other and make those little things
matter!
OK, so there you have it.
Two ways to “read” the news. And
now, everybody can bicker back and forth in the comments section of all the
websites reporting the story from one of these perspectives.
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