Matt Lauer Asked Mary Barra If She Can Be a Good Mom and Run GM

[alotofyarn]

http://time.com/2927598/matt-lauer-m...ra-today-show/

I love the end of the article:

How’s this for a question: Can Matt Lauer be a good dad and host the Today Show? Let’s discuss.

[PrincessFiona]

I don't know. I think it's a fair question, but I would ask it of Matt Lauer too. Children require an incredible investment of time. When you have a high powered job, that time just isn't there .... for Mary Barra or Matt Lauer.

[scrub-jay]

What's his definition of a "good mom" and how does that differ from his definition of a "good dad"??

[Pollyanna]

Matt Lauer is a moron, that's my long held opinion .

Of course you can be a good parent with a high power job or working three jobs just to keep food on the table. It's a stupid question, for either a man or woman.

[SoonerTexan]

What others said. That being said, I think it takes a special kind of person. I can tell you I am not that person!

[GrayMatterWife]

I'd like to ask Matt Lauer how he can have that haircut and yet still be considered a newsman.

[Thirteen]

I'd like to ask Matt Lauer how he can have that haircut and yet still be considered a newsman.

Hahahaha!


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[SoonerTexan]

^ I snorted

[PrincessFiona]

Lol

[diggitydot]

I intensely dislike Lauer. This doesn't help.

[spaz]

I just so incredibly tired of the easily taken offense crowd... this comment is too sexist, to racist, too anti-gay...whatever. It was just a question not a value statement. He even added later it would be a good question for someone to ask him because as a dad he has had to miss many things in his son's life...

I don't know. I don't even watch much tv (mainly just local news and that not even every day.

I'm just tired of it. Why can't we be different people with different opinions instead of one politically correct one.

Rant over.

[GrayMatterWife]

Spaz: I'm with you. I didn't take offense. His morning pseudo-news drivel isn't worth the energy to care about. He is just filling up air space. The question wasn't particularly investigatory.

[houseelf]

tiptoeing in....because it is evidence of lingering misogyny that it is always on the table to ask a high-powered career woman about her parental obligations while men rarely encounter the same assumptions. Matt Lauer is in no way out of line for this particular question, but the continued, ubiquitous line of questioning squarely underpins the assumption that mom is the MOST important parent, she just *might* be neglecting her kids, and as an equally damaging unstated corollary, most dads are kind of superfluous and above such considerations.

Flame away....

J/K. There is not a lot to debate. The question was valid, he's pompous. The criticism is that it is ALWAYS talked about. That's all.