Listen here, Rosen-haters

More than likely, I’m preaching to the choir here. However, I will feel much better once I get my rant out into the webiverse.

Hilary Rosen is not a woman/mother-hater. She is simply questioning what authority a woman who has never had economic burdens or had to clip coupons or face the huge double-standards of the workforce can possibly have on “women and the economy”. A valid question. Now, if Anne Romney was a stay-at-home mother like MY mother, and had been married to a man who did NOT make millions of dollars per year, if she had to worry about how they were going to feed their kids and still give her the freedom to stay at home, if she had to worry about if they were going to lose their home or how to get their children into college, Hilary Rosen probably would have been on board with Mitt Romney using his wife’s expertise.

The point that everyone seems to be missing is that Mitt Romney does not actually believe the concept of “women and the economy” is important, so instead of investing time into researching the subject and finding out what women actually need economically, he’s using a cheap tactic to give the perception that he cares. He’s selling his wife as a smokescreen and Hilary Rosen called him out.

If Mitt Romney wants to show me that he cares about me as a woman contributing to and struggling in the economy, he can do so by answering a few questions himself.  If Mitt Romney wants to show me that he cares about women’s economy, he’ll tell me what he’s going to do about the wage gap between genders, that he is going to do everything he can to pass legislation that makes it illegal for women to get paid less than men for the same job. If he cared about women and the economy, he would pass legislation that makes it easier for men AND women to have careers as well as families.

If Mitt Romney cared even a little bit about women and the economy, he wouldn’t insult my intelligence by putting on an illusion that a six-year old wouldn’t fall for.

And for the record, Mitt, contraception IS an economic issue. When women can control when and if they have children, they have better chances of making it to high-wage jobs.