{"id":1853,"date":"2005-09-26T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/20\/a-little-critical-of-an-opt-out-revolution-article\/"},"modified":"2005-09-26T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T19:55:30","slug":"commander-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Commander in Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure many of you have heard of ABC’s new show, Commander in Chief<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (they even have a fake blog going), staring Geena Davis as the president, which premieres tomorrow night. I don’t know what to make of this show yet. The commercials for it are pretty intriguing and kinda hits a nerve in regards to how would the country would respond to a female president. One of the phrases used in the commercials is “wife, mother, leader,” and I wonder how many times the marital and parental status, and concerns surrounding those things of a male president or world leader come up. And how many times would the media ask a male head of state, “can you balance your marriage, family life, and manage to fulfill your obligations as president\/prime minister\/chancellor? Will any of those spheres in your life suffer because of too much emphasis on another? Will you get moody one day and blow up another country?” Not that there isn’t any room for one to be concerned in how to balance a relationship, family, and a career, and keep their sanity all the while, but why is this question and concern still mostly posed to women? And why does there seem to be a hint that they’ll fail in balancing these things out? Oh well. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

**<\/strong>Also on a totally different subject, Cindy Sheehan was arrested today<\/strong><\/a> while protesting outside of the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure many of you have heard of ABC’s new show, Commander in Chief (they even have a fake blog going), staring Geena Davis as the president, which premieres tomorrow night. I don’t know what to make of this show … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}