

Wendy Davis: Feminist champion and independent woman
Wendy Davis: Feminist champion and independent woman






Was she a divorced teenaged mother? Not quite:



















Wendy Davis responds






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19 thoughts on “Wendy Davis divorced her second husband one day after he paid off her student loans”

  1. WK, you are correct, but it is not going to be the end of her campaign. For many on the left these things you see clearly as disqualifying negatives are the very things that they believe qualify her to run. She has behaved exactly as a “progressive” woman is supposed to behave.


    1. This is what they glorify, isn’t it? Eat, Pray, Love and Switch and the throwing off of moral obligations from relationships in order to pursue narcissistic flights of fancy.


      1. All true and upsetting statements, though I find her behaviour sordid and self-centered. I guess just as there are women who like bad boys, there are men who go for women bound to treat them poorly.


  2. I agree with everything you said except for one thing.

    What have you got against construction workers? ;-) Some fine, upstanding, responsible people in the trades. Davies probably could have learned a lot about the value of hard work and ethics from her construction worker husband.


      1. Agreed about the moving in part, but not on the construction worker. I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, all the trades are in high demand and command exceptional incomes. My husband’s been in the IT field for nearly 20 years, and even a new tradesman would be close to his income. Those with experience can typically make a lot more. There is an issue of seasonality, which requires financial discipline, but that’s needed in any career.

        The biggest difficulty is that the job often takes the husband (or wife, as the case may be; lots of women in trades these days) away frequently. Especially those who work in oil field related jobs in the Fort Mac area. The cost of housing is really high, so a lot of the guys live in dorm type housing (paid for by the company, complete with free amenities and even free housekeeping) for 3 weeks, then home to their families in places like Edmonton or the surrounding towns for 1 week. It’s a hard life but, for many, the pay is the only way they can afford to have Mom home with the kids full time. A friend of mine’s husband is a welder and that’s the schedule he’s got, while she is able to homeschool their kids. A former student of mine is a housekeeper and her schedule is a month cleaning dorms, then a couple of weeks off. Even as a housekeeper, she makes about 3/4 what my husband does and was able to pay her mortgage off in no time – which is pretty darn impressive considering the house she’s got and how much she probably paid for it. This at the same time as supporting a developmentally delayed adult son.

        Granted, I’m in an area that has a chronic shortage of tradespeople, but even in other provinces I’ve lived in, going into any of the trades is pretty much guaranteed high income earning potential. One would have to be in a pretty economically depressed area (like Ontario, these days) for that not to be true. What ends up happening is that people complete their apprenticeships in ON, then move to Alberta or Saskatewan for jobs.


          1. Bituminous sands. There actually is no shale oil in Alberta or Manitoba, while there is at some shale oil everywhere else in Canada, particularly on the East Coast.

            Extracting shale oil requires fracking, and there’s no need to do that in the oilsands. A tiny fraction if it is surface mined, while the rest can only be extracted in-situ.

            People make a big deal about how big the oil sands are, and they are right when it comes to the sands themselves, but the areas disturbed by extraction is really quite miniscule, no matter how many “moonscape” photos are bandied about.


      2. Moving in together is bad and sets people up for divorce. But a construction worker can make enough money to support a family. My parents raised 7 kids on about what a construction worker makes. It’s difficult, but it can be done.


      3. Depends where you live too. My fiance’s sister has 6 kids. Her husband is a plumber. She stays home with the kids. Her brother has 5 kids and is a truck driver. His wife has to stay home. So you can do it in the skilled trades. These aren’t construction jobs, but the idea still holds.


    1. Great line, Scott! I did tell you about the pro-abort who told me “children are the property of their parents, and they have the right to abort them up to the age of 18,” didn’t I? He was dead serious. That makes your 50th trimester calculation pretty close.


      1. Funny that the people who are up in arms at the thought (just the thought) of women being the “property” of their husbands are the ones claiming that children are the property of their parents (by which they mean, of course, their mothers – fathers don’t have rights, either before or after birth in the feminist world).


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