Did you hear that women’s trap shooter Corey Cogdell-Unrein won her second career Olympic medal for the U.S. team in Rio this weekend? Did you cheer for Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú, who won the gold and broke a world record in 400-meter individual medley? Or were you too distracted by the media commentary about their husbands?
Thus begins this piece by Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon, an 800-plus word lament about women Olympians also being…gasp!…wives and mothers. And the media…gasp!…reporting on it.
The left likes to bill itself as “progressive” — eschewing the “oppressive” and “traditional” cultural norms for a better, more enlightened world where women are equal (because we apparently aren’t), people of different cultures hold hands and sing “Kumbaya” (despite real conflicts between, say, ISIS and Western values), and your home is powered by environmentally friendly unicorn farts.
Yet it is the left that ignores, denies, or victim blames women when they are assaulted by refugees in Europe. It is the left that obsesses about an American woman wearing a hijab in the Olympics (never mind the cultural oppression that garment symbolizes for many women around the world). It is the left that clings to regressive economic ideas like socialism and failed attempts at green energy.