Ann Romney - Women making less than men

[bliss]

This was on my FB feed.

www.freewoodpost.com/2012/04/18/ann-romney-why-should-women-be-paid-equal-to-men/

At a meeting with the “Moms For Mitt” group yesterday outside Philadelphia, PA, Ann Romney was asked her opinion on Lilly Ledbetter and equal pay for equal work regarding women’s employment. Without hesitation she responded with another question that seemed to shock even the most staunch conservatives in the room.

“Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere. Who’s going to want to hire a woman, or for that matter, even marry a woman who thinks she is the same, if not better than a man at any job. It’s almost laughable. C’mon now ladies, are you with me on this?”

:-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| 8-D 8-D 8-D 8-D

[rosiedozie]

I'm pretty sure that site is like The Onion.

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Here's the banner at the top of that site:

[wiffle]

www.snopes.com/politics/romney/momsformitt.asp

"Free Wood Post is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within FreeWoodPost.com are fiction, and presumably fake news."

ETA: too slow.

[bliss]

Aug 23, 2012 16:19:54 GMT -5 rosiedozie said:

I'm pretty sure that site is like The Onion.

It is. There's a big giant banner, you can't miss it.

I thought it was funny and relevant to a conversation on GBCN recently.

[bliss]

Aug 23, 2012 16:33:36 GMT -5 suzubell said:

Aug 23, 2012 16:25:04 GMT -5 bliss said:

It is. There's a big giant banner, you can't miss it.

I thought it was funny and relevant to a conversation on GBCN recently.

Perhaps you should have included that in your OP?

I thought I did. But obviously I didn't. That's what I get for GBCNing, FBing and working. One at a time.

[AAM2012]

So...are you going to link to what you were referring to?

[bliss]

No. I don't care to spend time finding the post that this reminded me. You can though.

[AAM2012]

Riiiiiight.

[emilyinchile]

To clarify, since you knew this was a joke when you posted it, you are :-| and 8-D -ing the humorous article because you think even suggesting the idea as satire is outrageous and worth of an eye roll?

[bliss]

Aug 23, 2012 17:22:04 GMT -5 emilyinchile said:

To clarify, since you knew this was a joke when you posted it, you are and -ing the humorous article because you think even suggesting the idea as satire is outrageous and worth of an eye roll?

No. It was more "this is shocking :-|" and "thankfully it's satire 8-D"

I honestly thought I included a sentence about why I posted it. Something must have distracted me; email, phone, boss coming around the corner, etc.

[AAM2012]

Riiiiiight.

[otowngirl]

Aug 23, 2012 17:28:10 GMT -5 AAM2012 said:

Riiiiiight.

This. Nice try though.

[oukapu]

Lol

[lemondrop]

Aug 23, 2012 17:25:22 GMT -5 bliss said:

Aug 23, 2012 17:22:04 GMT -5 emilyinchile said:

To clarify, since you knew this was a joke when you posted it, you are and -ing the humorous article because you think even suggesting the idea as satire is outrageous and worth of an eye roll?

No. It was more "this is shocking " and "thankfully it's satire "

I honestly thought I included a sentence about why I posted it. Something must have distracted me; email, phone, boss coming around the corner, etc.

Words cannot even describe how much I love this.

[letsbeawkward]

Lol, I am new to this board but you are really strange.

It is comical that you tried to pass this off as "oh I totally knew it was fake!" seriously, good one.