The Year of the Woman? Oy vey. It’s a phrase that’s always struck me as ridiculous. It would be one thing to declare it the Year of the Short, Redheaded, Left-Handed Woman, or the Year of the Unmarried, Urban-dwelling Thirtysomething Woman, or the Year of the Woman Who Doesn’t Want to Have It All, but, […]
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The Year of The Woman, and The Hefty Burden of Making Choices
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", being judged, culture, decision-making, feminism, life choices, why women?, tagged " New York Times Magazine, "Girls", 50 Shades of Grey, A.O. Scott, Ann Romney, Bechel test, being judged, breastfeeding, career, Child care, expectations, hollywood, juggling, Lena Dunham, marriage, Paula Broadwell, Rihanna, Sandra Fluke, tiger mother, Year of the Woman on December 11, 2012| 1 Comment »
The War Against Women is a War Against Everyone
Posted in culture, economy, feminism, gender roles, why women?, workplace, tagged " New York Times Magazine, "the End of Men", Ann Romney, economy, gender gap, gender roles, Hanna Rosin, health care reform, M.I.T., Michael Greenstone, reproductive rights, The Atlantic, The Hamilton Project, traditional worldview, war on women on September 4, 2012| 2 Comments »
That gagging sound you heard last week, when Ann Romney bellowed in her best Oprah voice, “I love you, womennnnnn!”? That was me. And not because I don’t love women; I do. And not because I don’t believe that Ann Romney loves women; I’m sure she does. It’s because, at best, this sentiment is utterly […]
Squawking Points: The War on Women Goes Stupid.
Posted in culture, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Affordable Care Act, Canadian Lawyer and Law Times, equal pay, family values, feminism, forbes.com, Gay Marriage, gender wage gap, health care reform, jezebel, Katie J.M. Baker, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, Ramesh Ponnuru, Rep. Paul Ryan, reproductive rights, Sabrina Shaeffer, safety net, war on women on August 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
It’s not so much the right-wingers’ war on women that pisses me off — it’s the fact that they think we’re dumb enough to buy their talking points. Case in point, a Bloomberg op-ed by Ramesh Ponnuru that attempts to make the case that the gender wage gap is nothing but nonsense: we make less […]
Declaring a Ceasefire Against Our Sisters
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", being judged, culture, feminism, grass-is-greener, why women?, tagged Ann Romney, being single, childfree, Gloria steinem, Hilary Rosen, Larry King, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Mitt Romney, Mommy Wars, Oprah, pay gap, perfection, Salon.com, self-doubt, stay at home moms, the road not traveled, the second shift, us vs. them, working moms on April 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
So, the Mommy Wars. They’re back. Again. Or still. A superquick recap: As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, last week Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen said on CNN that Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s wife Ann, a stay at home mom, had “never worked a day in her life.” Naturally the Romney campaign latched on to […]