1.
“This over-achieving beauty is running for City Council as head of
non-profit that’s only skin deep” – NY post
Jennifer Rajkumar who
was running for District 1 council member in Lower Manhattan; graduated from
Stanford Law School, is a legal director of the New York State Young Democrats,
a civil rights attorney at Sanford Heisler, founder of non-profit organization
and Democratic District Leader in Lower Manhattan, was only described by the over-achieving beauty. What does this has to with her career? There is no correlation with Rajkumar’s beauty and her career. This candidate should have been described with influential, ambitious or determined not over-achieved at all, but the New York’s post decided to focus on Rajkumar’s appearance and neglect her achievements.
The writer of this article also used the word “skin deep” to
communicate to the audience that her non-profit organization is only fake or
superficial.
2.
“New UN Ambassador Interviewed About ‘Diplomacy Diapers'”
Samantha Power, the
new United States Ambassador to the United Nations, is the youngest person to
ever hold that position discusses in an interview with “The Today Show” her
thoughts on Syria, her career as a journalist, her regret over
calling Hilary Clinton a ‘Monster’, and her life at home where she has two
kids, each under the age of five. So they decided to sum up her life in
only two words “diplomacy and diapers” and the strangest thing that the word
“diapers” wasn’t mentioned through out the whole interview.
Imagine a widowed male ambassador, who raises 2 kids under
the age of 5, would he be called by the same name? Why how a mom balances work
and family comes up much more frequently than how a dad does it? Until the
problem between balancing work and raising kids is associated with working men
as much as it is with workingwomen, it will remain gendered.
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