Swift, of course, is a woman, and ispregnant with not one child but two. As a result, her SUV has driven straight into the center of the never-ending culture war that pits mothers in the work force against mothers on the home front. This week, radio talk shows are blowing the usual smoke about the impossibility of women being successful on more than one front without succumbing to stress-induced heart attacks or condemning their children to years of psychotherapy. This from the folks who demand that welfare mothers take minimum wage jobs, their children be damned. Superwoman has always been a media myth.
Women struggle, just as men do, to find some balance in their lives.
It's not a science. Those who complain that Swift should have timed her pregnancy better clearly have never tried to time a pregnancy. It's not a science. Swift herself concedes that her ascension to the governorship has come at a less than opportune moment in her personal life. There is no question that Swift faces a logistical challenge in the weeks before and after her twins are born.