I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the Bush family while trying to put together a diary about 3 generations of war profiteers; when another idea emerged - the difference in this family between men and women.
The men in this family go to Yale to be groomed for leadership roles, but the women can go to any local school they choose because they're not being groomed for leadership roles. The women will marry well, become fundraisers, society mavens, good wives all.
Why would neither Jenna nor Barbara go to Yale or Harvard? Why is Laura Bush so unheard? Is she playing the anti-Hillary - is that really and truly what the right wants to see from the First Lady?
The pope's passing has had me, like everyone else, reflecting on the Catholic church and its role in our global society. Now, I had 3 babies in less than five years. These were unplanned but welcome pregnancies, but I can't begin to tell you the toll they took on my physical and mental well being. Suffice it to say that when you have a toddler at your knee, a one year old still nursing, and maybe another of the way, you are going to be very hard pressed to fulfill whatever potential you thought you might have had when you were younger. I cannot for the life of me imagine willingly joining a religion that forbids birth control. The women in this faith are the true martyrs.
There are disturbing similarities between the Bush family and catholicism. I think we should stop dissing Bush's daughters. They can't help it if they've been raised as second class citizens.