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Their toned-down expectations and low-level resentment manifest themselves in sexless marriages and increased rates of depression.

Hold on here. Plenty of women use the excuse that they're too tired from working for any fooling around. So if hubby graciously works extra hard to support a non-working wife, now she has "low-level resentment" towards him and cuts him off from sex anyway? How is a guy supposed to react?

Ladies, this is why your men have affairs or patronize hookers. Not saying it's moral or right, but it does provide an explanation.

-ccm

Geez, I'm sick of spoiled liberal sows who have everything feeling bored, depressed, and resentful. I despise resentful people. Exactly what the heck do they have to be resentful about? I am surrounded by women like that in the cushy suburbs of Washington, DC, the readership catchment area for this Washpost article. They are immature, selfish, and unspiritual, and most of them have a very poor attiude toward the men who slave away to make their lifestyle of indulgence possible. They have no idea how blessed they are to be able to stay at home with their children.

Hm. Now it sounds like I'm the one who's being resentful, because I can't go back to being a stay-at-home-mom for the moment like the spoiled liberal sows! I'd better adjust my attitude with a little prayer.

From the article:

If you choose to work, it's up to you to find quality day care. If you choose to forgo the second income and stay home, it's up to you to find a way to afford preschool or a morning out for yourself.
Government should do everything for us! We should have to go to the trouble of finding and paying for our own child care if we want to get away from the kids we brought into the world!

The only way out, Warner says, is for mothers to rejoin the political scene and to call for a new "politics of quality of life" that would create institutions to help us care for our children so that we don't have to do it all on our own.
Yes! And get rid of those icky tax cuts so that government will pick up the tab for spoiled women to have more time for themselves! God forbid we should raise our own kids ourselves!
Interestingly, in the previous paragraph the author wrote about how there should be preferential tax exemptions for people who have children. So, let's see, she wants taxes raised so that the government will fund her free time, but she doesn't want to pay higher taxes. I see. Typical liberal illogic.

Stephanie Wilkinson writes like a biter single feminist (paging maureen dowd club). ALL her arguments are the same arguments that have been made from the early days of feminism.

This woman has never raised a child, she has never maintained a household. This type of mandatory ignorance in girls is now standard procedure for all young ladies.

(of course Stephanie Wilkinson is probably no lady.)

Anyone, and it doesn't matter what gender, who puts all their energy toward one goal will go crazy. "Everything in moderation"

I'd bet you could interview some workaholic, suck-ups and they'd say basically the same thing.

I've seen these women and they think raising a child is some kind of competition. The kids have to wear the best, ride in the best, go to the best school, be in the right sports, blah, blah, blah. They are obsessed with them and it's all for their own ego.