Naomi Wolf in her apartment in New York
Posted on 02/05/2010 11:10:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sleep, say US feminists, is the next big issue for women to address — doing less and enjoying more duvet time is the way to go
Just as Virginia Woolf noted in A Room of One’s Own that one can’t “think well, write well, love well” if one has not “dined well”, so it would seem that women in particular can’t function well if they haven’t slept well. Two of America’s leading feminist super-achievers are on a crusade to get us all to have a lie in, or at least to take a nap.
Arianna Huffington, the powerhouse publisher of The Huffington Post, and Cindi Leive, the equally indomitable publisher of Glamour, have joined forces to identify women’s sleep deprivation as “the next feminist issue”. They cite studies that indicate that women are more sleep-deprived than men, including one that says American women are getting 90 minutes less than the seven to eight hours recommended for someone to be well and perform well.
The pair make a persuasive case that female exhaustion is undermining women’s creativity, judgment, and relationships. What does it profit us to win the whole world only to experience it cranky and irrational from fatigue?
But much as I admire Huffington and Leive, their advocacy for their sleep campaign reveals part of why we are driving ourselves to exhaustion. The pair argue, rightly, that: “The problem is that women often feel that they still don’t ‘belong’ in the boys-club atmosphere that still dominates many workplaces.
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If we sleep more, they argue, women will become more powerful. “After all, we’ve already broken glass ceilings in Congress, space travel, sports, business and the media — just imagine what we can do when we’re fully awake.”
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Naomi Wolf in her apartment in New York
Making it a "feminist" issue is absurd, a sign perhaps of terminal PMS.
“To my old man, sleep was life, or at least one of its more fulfilling aspects.” - Jean Shepherd
Hey. I’m there. It thrills me to know I’m still oppressing women. I’ll dream about you, baby.
It would be great if they could sleep more - at least when they’re asleep they wouldn’t be bugging the rest of us.
“Sleep deprivation alone does not a shrew make” - Me.
My Mum would have told them this for free if theyd asked her...
She liked lie ins and naps...
She lived a productive life til she died at 80...
Cooking for her and Dad and looking after the house...
She volunteered at the local Senior Center helping people younger than herself till she died...
Most never knew that a lady at least 10 years older than them was running errands and reading to them and writing letters etc...
Good on ya Mum...
:)
This is another way to destroy the American Dream, which they despise passionately.
My “Mother” was a saint as well. God Bless to the children and the messages that get answered! :^)
Feminism has entered its decadent phase, I see...
You have to LEARN to be that stupid.
Puffington got plenty of sleep when she was married to her closet-gay hubby (and without his millions of $$$, she’d be a big fat Greek nobody).
i am a night owl... if i could, i would live the Bohemian lifestyle... i would stay up all night... go to midnight bowling with my family... midnight shows... all night cafes... i get my best sleep between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.... that’s when i sleep the deepest... unfortunately, i cannot keep those hours practically... so i stay up late and wake up at about 7:00 (this is new... i used to wake up at 9ish)... but to do all i need to do—i’m a homeschooling mom—i need to arise at 7:00—now that oldest son is approaching high school and has a heavier academic load... so somewhere between 2:00 and 4:00 i take a nap... 20 minutes to an hour... when i worked in corporate America, there were times during my lunch hour i would drive 20 minutes to get home, take a 20 minute nap, and then take another 20 minutes to get back to work... no matter now tired i am, i cannot get to sleep before midnight... i get this burst of energy somewhere between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m...
I can see it now. Future ‘feminist’ issues to be eating, breathing and taking dumps.
My O my, how wise Salomon was when he said there's nothing new under the sun.
And that never happens to men? Wow, we must be tough!
Agree 100%.
It may not be oppression by men that keeps Naomi Wolf up at night. I think it’s the paisley headboard on her bed.
OMG!! The woman is INSANE!!!! Hey Naomi, stick to picking out khakis for Gore.
There’s nothing like a nap with a few cats and a baby to get you through the rest of the day, especially when you haven’t had an uninterrupted night’s sleep since 2005.
Before the liberals and feminists made it now a necessity for women to work many women could have a lie in while their husbands went off to work or a little nap in the afternoon before the children came home.
Now women need to work and take care of the kids and be a wife and the husband who used to spend 45 hours a week at work and come home to a well groomed house and kids now must work 50 plus hours and do more work around the home as well.
Gee it all worked out so well!
Mel
Until I read your post, I didn’t realize the article was about you.
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