Posted on 06/18/2006 11:03:54 AM PDT by Heatseeker
When I set out to write a book about how the first generation of women to grow up with feminism managed their marriages, I never dreamed I'd wind up the subject of a Web article called "Everybody Hates Linda."
Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine the American Prospect last December, saying that women who quit their jobs to stay home with their children were making a mistake. Worse, I said that the tasks of housekeeping and child rearing were not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings. They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings. Oh, and by the way, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed? Maybe the thickest glass ceiling, I wrote, is at home.
Okay, I'm judgmental. That's what CBS's Lesley Stahl called me on "60 Minutes." But I'm a philosopher, and it's a philosopher's job to tell people how they should lead their lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I read it and I realized:
(1) This woman is a blithering idiot with a political agenda.
(2) The Washington Post must have laid off its competent editors, because no one with any editing sense would have printed this article.
That's OK--I read it for you. Here's a synopsis:
Women aren't buying into the feminist bull**it anymore. Waaaaaaah!
" Oh, and by the way, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed?"
In previous generations, the vast majority were out working 72 hour weeks at mind-numbing, dirty and dangerous jobs in fields, factories, forests, or mines in order to enable their spouse to care for their children.
For myself, I found her article purile and rather pathetic, defending her person rather than her ideas, and trying hive everyone who disagrees with her off as some sort of Christian fundamentalist. 'Tain't so, and she ought to know better, but then she's lived in the Boston ivory tower for decades, the left-intellectual cocktail part circuit from Boston to Washington with detours to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons.
Yes it is! I wonder if the writer's Mother had a full time nanny and housekeeper.
"For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world."
William Ross Wallace
There is another explanation for the phenomenon: left to themselves, (most) men simply won't do as much around the house because they don't consider it as important as (most) women do. Women spend more time cleaning and cooking because they (often) have a lower threshold of "I can't stand the mess" or "No, we can't have TV dinners or go out" than do (most) men.
IT is commendable
I'll go with #1 and #2 with #3 being highly likely, but not proven in the story.
I don't know why some people have to post that they will not read the article. I thought it was interesting and I read the whole thing. Do I agree? Of course not.
The author CLEARLY confuses the term "liberal" with "philosopher".
I heard her on Mike Medved a week or so ago -- your description of her is spot on -- that is exactly how she came across.
Well, I am going to play philosopher then, too. I demand that she take a cup of hemlock as another philosopher did. Then we won't have her to kick around anymore.
"But I'm a philosopher, and it's a philosopher's job to tell people how they should lead their lives."
Wrong. Philosophy is the study of wisdom and the pursuit of the beautiful according to the father of philosophy, Aristotle.
I didn't read whole crapfest, but I did see her on 60 minutes and she struck me as a bitter, abandoned woman, who resents those women who are able to raise and teach their children. She resents them because she is envious of them, they have what she lost. They are able to show a child a sunrise for the first time and that is something her bitter words cannot take away.
Exactly!
I think she meant to say Progressive, not Philosopher.
This gal reminds me of an old girlfriend who was entrenched with the feminazi movement. She chided me non-stop for putting my life on hold to raise my kids and engineer the household. She finally admitted she was jealous. These are sad people with sad, empty lives.
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