It’s no accident that Alabama Sen. Katie Britt issued the Republican Party’s response to the State of the Union address from her kitchen table, since the kitchen is precisely where the GOP would prefer we women spend most of our lives.
Ideally, Britt would have been canning beans or kneading bread with a baby on her hip at the same time, but the related racket would likely have made her strained stage-whispers about murderous immigrants difficult to hear.
This remarkable tableau was punctuated by the family portrait Britt , captioned: “To the American people: Our future starts around kitchen tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you.”
Everything about Britt’s performance was a choice — a carefully crafted domestic diorama.
“Just like this” is a curious way to describe Britt’s kitchen, which is unlike any I’ve ever cooked in.
No fridge plastered with kids’ drawings or chore charts.
No counters strewn with mail and sunglasses and mugs. No crumb-filled toaster or gunky microwave.
Nary a ceramic rooster or a cow-shaped cookie jar in sight.
Not even a chalkboard with “live, laugh, love” painted in crisp white script.
Just a pristine, greiges howroom for conservative conformity.
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Ideally, Britt would have been canning beans or kneading bread with a baby on her hip at the same time, but the related racket would likely have made her strained stage-whispers about murderous immigrants difficult to hear.
This remarkable tableau was punctuated by the family portrait Britt , captioned: “To the American people: Our future starts around kitchen tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you.”
Everything about Britt’s performance was a choice — a carefully crafted domestic diorama.
“Just like this” is a curious way to describe Britt’s kitchen, which is unlike any I’ve ever cooked in.
No fridge plastered with kids’ drawings or chore charts.
No counters strewn with mail and sunglasses and mugs. No crumb-filled toaster or gunky microwave.
Nary a ceramic rooster or a cow-shaped cookie jar in sight.
Not even a chalkboard with “live, laugh, love” painted in crisp white script.
Just a pristine, greiges howroom for conservative conformity.
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Opinion | Katie Britt’s kitchen was a bleak stand-in for a chilling conservative vision
A carefully crafted domestic diorama to distract from her party's record.
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