All of the problems named with this proposal are problems inherent to the concept of having a First Lady https://twitter.com/jenniferweiner/status/833284799364263937 …
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I.e. the inherent grossness of having a female-only "hostess"/"social chair" job that's automatically assigned to the President's spouse
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One minor disappointment is that with HRC elected, the awkwardness of "What's Bill now?" might've led to abolishing/reforming the concept
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The quasi-sexist reasons ppl didn't want Bill as "First Gentleman" were problems inherent to the idea of a First Lady
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Like yes, it's true that the First Lady's purpose has been to run the "social" side of the WH as a refuge from open politics
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And that Bill's history as an ex-PotUS himself with his own long relationships w foreign leaders makes him a bad choice for that job
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But think about it -- that's WHY FLotUS is a sexist position, that it requires the PotUS's wife to stay out of politics & be "neutral"
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It's why HRC's life was so miserable as FLotUS, it's why Michelle used to be the more opinionated Obama and then got v quiet suddenly
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It's fucked up that if you're married to the PotUS you have no choice either to be openly partisan or to stay out of politics completely
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I mean it's formalized for the PotUS but it's been that way for a bunch of positions. "CEO's wife" or "pastor's wife" being an unpaid job
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A job with very specific requirements where if you go outside them it hurts your husband's career and it's your fault
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Someone explained to me once how in US evangelical churches the pastor's wife is explicitly the "women's pastor" w/o actually being employed
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