Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lusting after June Cleaver. Our fantasies forswear feeble-minded females. What's in the head trumps what...
...black leadership. They see that he has been less than intimate with the grand, grizzled heads of the civil rights Establishment. In fact, his closest ties are with a younger, and no less impassioned, generation of black leaders, such as California Congresswoman Maxine Waters; Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Emanuel Cleaver; Chicago alderman Bobby Rush; and New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch Jr. It seems to have dawned on Clinton, as it has dawned on few white politicians, that 30 million African Americans do not speak with a single voice. Now all this makes an older generation of civil rights...
...Take your basic nuclear family: the modern, shop-happy housewife, the corporate-drone dad, two rambunctious kids and a dog; house them in a spacy-looking split-level; power their car with atomic energy; equip their home with a robot maid; and, whammo, you had it -- a space-age Cleaver family named The Jetsons...
...expressed her resentment of stereotypical expectations of female subordination. And each time, her motivations have been ignored and she has been miscast as the one who promotes insensitive stereotypes. Her response to this has been to tone down her independent-woman persona and become more like June Cleaver than Murphy Brown...
...same thing happened recently when Clinton said she wouldn't just "stay home and bake cookies" if her husband became president. This time she didn't risk offending anyone by mentioning names. June Cleaver's name never came up. But this strategy backfired too. Now every average cookie-baking homemaker in America has the right to feel insulted by Hillary's antipathy to family values and contempt for women without careers...