fickle: (mai: damsel in distress)
Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-06-29 10:06 am

"Women make laws when they can't make quiche."

While discussing Obama vs. Clinton the other day with a guy, the man in question came forth with this pearl of wisdom:

"Women make laws when they can't make quiche."


Unsurprisingly, that infuriated me.

Politics is not something that women do because they're not good at cooking, or domestic arts. Running the country is in no way a consolation prize for being a bad cook or housewife!

If you want to get into politics, it means that you want to have a say in the direction that the country heads in. It means you want to influence the social system of the country, the international opinion of the country and the financial situation of the country.

If you're running a country like America, it means that you're affecting the whole damn world. The reprecussions of your decisions will be felt by countries so far across the globe that they're going to sleep when you're having lunch, or waking up when you're eating quiche for dinner.

Going into politics means that you have power.

Baking a quiche isn't especially empowering (unless you poison it, I suppose).

Being involved in American politics -- running for President, running for Senate, canvassing house-to-house, putting up posters, and hell, even just showing up voting -- means that you can change the world.

I think that's better than baking one lousy quiche.

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
oh god I hate just about everyone who questions a woman's ability to be a president.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
How many do you run into?

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't run into anyone, I just hear about it. One is too many though.

[identity profile] ryuutchi.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it kill tiem nao pls?

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Cat macros, attack!

[identity profile] perivates.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet that guy can't even cook a quiche himself. And if he can, that it doesn't taste very good. That's why women belong in the kitchen, because he can't make a goddamn quiche! Unfortunately for him, I don't even know what a quiche is. I GUESS THAT MEANS I SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT? My first law will be to outlaw the cooking of things that I myself cannot make! We shall be a country of popcorn and ramen!

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...Dude, I'd have to move out then. I can't survive on popcorn and ramen, there's only one flavor of ramen that I like!

[identity profile] alexshido.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
... But not better than tiramisu. =P

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-03 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate tiramisu. XD