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State Sen. Wendy Davis, who became a hero to the left when she filibustered a restrictive abortion bill, is running for governor of Texas. Now she faces charges that some aspects of her biography are misleading.
She was a hero to abortion rights advocates, feminists, and the liberal media.
Especially when her personal story was widely told: Teen-aged single mother, raised by a single mother herself under challenging economic circumstances. Worked as a waitress. Lived in a trailer park. Graduated first in her class at Texas Christian University, then went on to Harvard where she earned a law degree “with the help of academic scholarships and student loans,” as her website puts it.
She, and the press who lionize her, seem all too eager to suggest that she somehow did everything all by herself.
This false heroic tale is a common trope on the left these days – women doing it all by themselves.
It’s more than partisan hackery.
It reinforces the very damaging notion that women don’t need husbands.
Many, many women are swallowing this propaganda and acting on it.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0125/Liberal-hero-Wendy-Davis-under-fire-for-her-selective-biography-video
