Comments on: One Flew Over The Chicken Coop: The Femivore’s Dilemma

By: Declaring a Ceasefire Against Our Sisters « Undecided

Declaring a Ceasefire Against Our Sisters « Undecided — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:26:46 +0000

[...] coupleds. It’s pro-Botox and anti. It’s Tiger Mom versus Bringing Up Bebe. It’s gluten-free/organic/vegan versus chicken fingers and tater [...]

By: Fly Away Home, Or Eat, Crazy, Sexy, Pray Redux « Undecided

Fly Away Home, Or Eat, Crazy, Sexy, Pray Redux « Undecided — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:55:14 +0000

[...] (One flew over the chicken’s coop, much?) Don’t get me wrong; I come not to judge. And I think part of the reason contentment can be so very elusive for women has to do with our refusal to allow the women who choose differently from us the freedom to “choose their choice,” as SATC’s Charlotte might have said. And, to that end, if raising chickens in your backyard and keeping a perfect home are where you find your bliss, more power to you. (And, just have to add: if the chicken coop is your happy place and you can actually afford to stay home and hang out with your birds, consider yourself blessed. And if vacuuming is your happy thing, please please come to my house.) My issue is what Warner gets at here: The values and beliefs and practices that go into sustaining and maintaining the way right-thinking, highly educated, generally affluent folk go about living their lives today–and that have made yoga a multibillion-dollar-a-year escape from the crush of modern life–are not rejected. Rather, as ever, the women question themselves. They can always be–must always be–further perfected, their performance of selfhood more highly refined. [...]

By: Housewives, Redux: Same Story, New Spin. « Undecided

Housewives, Redux: Same Story, New Spin. « Undecided — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:37:17 +0000

[...] backlash? I just can’t figure out why. But maybe it’s this: another version of the “extreme homemakers” and their chicken coops, wherein women have to frame raising children or chickens as feminist– AND DO IT [...]

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By: alandmark

alandmark — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:16:58 +0000

It’s just another choice, to be able to choose how you wish to live your life, right? You’re educated, you have the opportunity to earn your own income, to live where you want to live. These are all things housewives of the 50′s and earlier didn’t have. In my opinion, feminism merely asks that women share the same ground as men and be allowed to live their lives on their own terms. These women are doing that. And to me that is a feminist statement.