"I thought it was okay to be single. I thought it was okay to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn’t have children," – secretary of state Condi Rice.
Good for Rice. She doesn’t have to have kids or family members to understand the gravity of warfare or the arguments about policy in Iraq. No one does. Subjecting her to this kind of cheap shot is completely unnecessary – and counter-productive for Boxer’s case. Her refusal to even contemplate that her statement was loaded with prejudice (even unconscious prejudice) only keeps the insult alive. Apologize, senator – to single women, and childless women – and move on.
(Photo: Ron Edmonds/AP.)
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