I think it's simply that paid employment is a _different_ experience from being a full-time mother.
Note the sentence, (omitted, of course, from the excerpt initially sent), "So her experience and her
validation comes from important things, but different things."
Heinz Kerry wasn't dissing librarianship or motherhood--or teaching as a profession, either. She was
simply saying that working full-time and being a mother full-time are different experiences, and
unfortunately forget while she was saying it that Laura Bush had, in fact, worked for ten years
between school and marriage.
Note, also, that she has already apologized for the error.
Lis Carey
-----Original Message-----
From: T. R. Halvorson [mailto:trh@midrivers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:15 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Is Librarianship a Real Job?
After reading and rereading the interview, I'm not sure the intent was that
librarianship is not a real job. Ms. Kerry seems to be referring to the
period in Ms. Bush's life after she no longer was practicing the profession
of school librarian ("I mean, since she's been grown up."). The reference
seems to be to the period in Ms. Bush's life when she has been a mother and
not a practicing librarian. If I've got the time reference right, then the
statement could mean that in Ms. Kerry's opinion motherhood is not a real
job.
Would it be likely that Ms. Kerry thinks librarianship is not a real job?
Not likely. Would it be likely that Ms. Kerry thinks motherhood is not a
real job? Not likely. But the statement must refer to something, and if it
refers to neither librarianship nor motherhood, then to what? Is there a
third way to read the statement?
So, all in all, to me it is just a confusing statement. I don't know what
it is supposed to mean.
T. R. in Montana.
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