I’m a mother, so I get all that. I’m just not sure what Hillary being a mother has to do with her being the best choice for President.

I didn’t.

“mothers, by nature, are nurturing.”

Yeah, that’s not really the issue most people are taking with the “mother” comment, but...always good to get a jab in at the objectively minuscule segment of the population that happens to be slightly over-represented in the niche corner of the internet you’re visiting.

Thank you for saying so. Just saying what I feel like we all really know.

THERE it is. This is great.

YES. Yes, yes, YES. Thank you for crystalizing!!!

I think a lot of women chafe at this “women are tough, get stuff done” or “mothers are [xyz positive attribute]” stuff because it can feel like people are implying those traits come easily or naturally, when really they’re the result of very hard work that’s expected disproportionately of us.

That can also happen if you happen to be a woman, but don’t have your own kids.

I wasn’t offended by the video but the whole nurturing mom thing rubs me the wrong way because my mom is a piece of shit, and it’s a lonely place to be

Yeah...if women telling you that something is sexist is “picking a fight” that causes you to rethink your ally status, I don’t know that you’re being the best ally.

I do understand that sentiment. I just disagree that any significant portion of people are actually doing what you’re claiming, and certainly not to the extent that your analogy was necessary. Especially not in the comments of this article, where most people’s objections to his “mother” comment aren’t actually about…

That’s kind of the implication when you compare people’s inability to understand it to something as significant as white people dismissing/being incapable of comprehending the black experience.

But this isn’t true. Some moms are shitty moms! A lot of them. They don’t ‘get stuff done’ and their kids suffer for it. It’s not being a mom that makes them ‘the type to get stuff done’. That they’re ‘the type to get stuff done’ to begin with is what makes them good mothers.

THANK YOU for articulating my own thoughts much better than I did above. YES. YES. YES. YES.

Oh, THANK YOU! nothing drives me up the wall faster than those two words: “Maternal instinct”

I’m a mother. A working single mother no less and I still don’t like that part at all and more so I don’t think Hillary would either. She’s running for President because of her qualifications. She’s not running because she’s uniquely qualified because she’s a mother.

All damned day! All. Damned. Day!

She IS a mother and guess what - mothers, by nature, are nurturing

He has some...odd ideas on motherhood, but I do agree that we need someone tough. Hillary’s resilience is admirable.