Apparently because some people took issue with some of the things said about Michelle Obama I am supposed to, nay required to, be squinty about the Rosen comments.  That is what invisible people on the internet keep telling me. It might even be almost true if I had ever weighed into anything said about Michelle Obama. But I haven’t. Search my archives. I have never once weighed into defending her from anything. Frankly she can hold her own. She doesn’t need me to point out Limbaugh or Hannity’s stupidity. But even if I had? No one attacked Ann Romney....

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The Romney vs. Rosen Motherhood is Hard kerfuffle has brought to mind something that has niggled at me for a long time. What is that? Well, and this might ruffle feathers, it is the tendency we have as a culture toward deification of motherhood. Lately there has been a rash of twee little images on my social media sites inviting me to repost if my children make me whole. Or complete me. Or are my sun moon and stars. Or…it gets really over the top, trust me. I don’t repost them because I do not, nor have I ever,...

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