I think it’s time to send the Mommy Wars off to bed once and for all. Best-selling novelist Deborah Copaken Kogan would definitely agree. Kogan was one of the featured break-out speakers at last week’s Sun Valley Writers Conference and her talk on the myth of the mommy wars provided food for both thought and […]
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Us Vs. Them: Why Is Our First Instinct To Rip Other Women Apart?
Posted in being judged, culture, why women?, tagged Mommy Wars, Slut Walks, us vs. them on June 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Monday morning, I awoke to a dastardly email: there lurked, it seemed, a nasty post about Undecided on the other side o’ the blogosphere. Now, I’ve been a writer for years–I’m not unfamiliar with hate mail or criticism. You do this long enough, and you develop a pretty thick skin. People can be mean. To […]
No Room For Nuance in the Mommy Wars
Posted in culture, feminism, identity, why women?, tagged maternal wall, Mommy Wars, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, us vs. them, Wall street Journal on March 17, 2011| 3 Comments »
So, earlier this week writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner (we’ve written about her before), had a piece on the Wall Street Journal’s blog that ignited what can only be described as a Category 5 shitstorm. The post is entitled “Time for a War on ‘Mommy’”–and, while I am neither a mommy nor a mother, I happen to […]
The zipless post
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, life choices, worklife balance, tagged "the baby book", babies, erica jong, Gloria steinem, motherlode, motherphilia, parenthood, Wall street Journal on November 11, 2010| 5 Comments »
So have you heard about the big dust-up caused by the Wall Street Journal essay written by Erica Jong in which she castigates what she calls “motherphilia?” I’m sure you know exactly what she means, but let’s let her spell it out: Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you know that we have endured […]
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