We’d taken out the pumpkin seeds (our equivalent of popcorn I guess) to watch the debate between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen and everything and there was silence….but nothing happened.
He started by talking about abortion and the fact that she wants to limit women’s access to it by not reimbursing it anymore, then saying she voted against laws at the European Parliament that were for man/woman equality (when she says she’s all for equality). She refused to talk with him, saying he wasn’t a real candidate because he said that if he wasn’t in the 2nd round then he’d tell people to vote for Hollande (if Hollande was in the 2nd round). Anyway. What does that tell us? Oh, you’re not important enough so I won’t talk to you. You’re not a “real” candidate. I mean, what?! Why did she even accept the invitation to talk on the show?! She looked so immature, fiddling with her papers there, refusing to look at him in the eye and answer what he was asking. So we didn’t get any answers on abortion until the journalists came back to ask her about it. She said she preferred using that money for old people. Convenient isn’t it, old people, who can’t have children anymore, they aren’t going to be concerned with abortion are they?
And then she answered the journalists about giving a “possibility to women to stay at home”. So they’d be paid to stay at home and raise their children, it would then count for their retirement. Ok fine, it’s great for housewives to be able to have something in the future. But you’re not proposing that to men who’d want to stay at home and raise their children too, to receive money for what they’re doing. So. If you’re only doing that for women, that’s a bit unequal isn’t it? Not in the sense that I’m going “waaa it’s unfair for men”, but more in the sense “you’re reinforcing stereotypes and not giving men this opportunity means that it’s only the woman’s job to be at home and raise children”.
Ugh. Idk where I was going with this except “aaaaaaaarggggghhhhh”.
