“Coming up next we have retired Air Force
lieutenant general Tom McInerney, financial analyst Ross Gerber, and a
housewife from Nebraska named Pam.” Why don’t we ever see that on the news? I’m
serious. Housewives make up almost a third of American moms and that is a massive
piece of the voting puzzle. After all, it was the female vote that got Obama elected.
I’m not sure why so many of them voted for him. He thinks they’re losers.
“Sometimes, someone, usually Mom, leaves the workplace to stay home with the
kids,” he said in a Rhode Island speech last year, “and that’s not a choice we want
Americans to make.” This isn’t an unusual sentiment. I’ve seen women who answer
the “What do you do?” question with “I’m a stay-at-home mom” being met with
looks of disappointment as if they had replied, “Nothing.” Top Manager in
Charge of Ad Buying is just spending someone else’s money on something that
probably doesn’t work, but it garners a helluva lot more respect than Creator
of Human Life Who Then Shapes Said Lives. When Mitt Romney cited his
stay-at-home spouse as an example of a housewife who cares about politics, a
snarky “Democratic strategist” insisted Ann had
“never worked a day in her life.” The implication being, housewives are too
stupid to understand economics. On the contrary, they are far more invested
than Rachel Maddow……
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Single women
go to the doctor to get fillers and liposuction. Moms go because their son
smashed his head on the coffee table and needs stitches. The latter experience
is what matters to Americans when it comes to health care. Education gobbles up
more money every year while test scores stay the same. Pundits have to research
this, but housewives have been watching this happen from their eldest to their
youngest. They volunteer in the library and see the books devoted to
entertainers and sports stars. It was the mothers at my kid’s previous school
who discovered a massive room full of brand-new musical instruments covered in
dust. Antifeminists such as Dana Loesch and Lydia Lovric arrived
at this headspace after seeing their sons chastised for being boys. Sure, I get a little
worried about a mom being irrational about guns, but moms are also very
protective and guns protect. Just ask Dana.
Of course,
these are all examples of anecdotal evidence. But I’m not talking about one day
with one housewife. I’m talking about making them an integral part of the
conversation. There are more housewives than there are blacks. Where’s their
voice? More moms are staying at
home than ever, and Americans agree that it’s a
good thing. Moms sway elections and do the vast majority of
buying for the family. Pundits are amusing and they’ve practiced the art of
cramming info into a small sound bite, but if we’re talking about experts, we
ought to include the people on the front line. The irony is, few can be
bothered. While we spend hours on TV arguing about what’s best for them,
they’re too busy actually doing it.
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