Feminist links du jour; a joke

[flea]

A very intelligent response to the New York Times' recent articles on women and family: http://www.alternet.org/story/28621/

Courtesy of Bitch, PhD, who also has comments of her own: http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2005/11/my-radical-married-feminist-manifesto.html

I am just going to have to stop reading the NYT's modern society coverage. The latest is one about how "these kids today" are all out of control and it's the parents' fault (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/weekinreview/27warner.html?incamp=article_popular_4). I know that the overall message isn't intended to be parent-bashing - it's intended to criticize *bad* parents - but I can't help but take it personally. Every single article I read about parenting, motherhood, women and society in the Times is sending me bad vibes - it's all criticize, no uplift. I gotta start reading Ms. or something instead. So much for Bastions of the Liberal Media.

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In much more fun news, here is Casper's joke. It is a knock-knock joke, but she says all the lines, very quickly, all run together:

"Knock knock. Who's there. [Unintelligible] who. JELLYBEAN!"

This is so cute that even though it doesn't make sense we laugh like mad. She tells the joke over and over and I still have no idea what the unintelligible part is.

Comments

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

Well, I feel a little bit good that we're somewhere along the continuum in the Radical Married Feminist Manifesto rather than at the icky end -- we're about half way there. Actually, maybe a bit further. But we've still got room for improvement.

[minim_calibre]

I liked Half Changed World's response to Hirshman's article, because it articulated a lot of my "yes, BUT" reaction.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I agreed with it whole-heartedly. But as the daughter of a divorced mother who saw first-hand the economic implications of SAHMotherhood in the (sadly all too likely in our society) event of divorce, I have a special soft spot for feminism focussed on finances. (Not that I am an MBA or maintain a separate checking account from my spouse. Although I do at the moment earn more money than he does.) And I liked that she did some actual research documenting "trends" that the NYT has been discussing so vaguely.