Amy Chua created a brand preaching the values of hard work, but her daughter’s success points to something else. onesarahjones writes on the 'Tiger Mom' and the lie of meritocracy
Amy Chua and Brett Kavanaugh. Photo: Getty Images In her controversial 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale law professor Amy Chua admits that she once sent her toddler daughter Lulu to stand outside in 20-degree weather wearing only a skirt and a sweater. Lulu was banished for an act of musical overenthusiasm; she kept smashing keys on the piano, while her mother wanted her to press one at a time. Chua offered Lulu a choice. Stop, or go outside. Lulu chose the outdoors.
For aspiring lawyers, Supreme Court clerkships are highly desirable — they’re tickets to positions at the best firms, or the first step in a career that may someday culminate in the clerk’s own judgeship. But Sophia’s achievement may have little to do with her mother’s parenting, or the work ethic she supposedly prized. In July 2018, Chua lauded Kavanaugh’s credentials as an advocate for women in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal.
Chua defended Kavanaugh before the nation learned that Christine Blasey Ford had credibly accused him of sexual assault, and there’s no evidence she knew about Blasey Ford before everyone else did. But she may have known that Kavanaugh wasn’t the woman-respecting paragon she’d made him out to be in public. A Guardian report, published in September 2018, alleged that Chua urged female students to dress a certain way, all the better to appeal to Kavanaugh.
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