Comments on: Sisterhood, Schmisterhood.

By: Thalia

Thalia — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:42:31 +0000

I’m now pondering my own floor cake recipe. I feel the stakes are rather high…

By: Emma B

Emma B — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:48:14 +0000

Hey, cocktail recipes totally count! Blame the Demerol for the domestic-goddess mixup :).

By: jess

jess — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:48:38 +0000

delurking to say I have brought an especially large purse to certain Russian restaurant on the hill in order to bring home their house vodka. Yum.

By: wessel

wessel — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:58:40 +0000

Hey, KNQ, I’m under your banner. I’ve never really understood why anyone would feel like they are wasting themselves by staying home and raising their children. Crazy.

And Ornery, I’m with you too: I’d trade in every smart-girl thought I’ve ever had for one good egg (okay, maybe two).

By: knq

knq — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:23:48 +0000

Thank you for this. I was referred by Jess Riley to you as one of the posts she loves (in honor of Valentine’s – awwww.) Anyway, it seems we have blog favorites in common. And, I have been writing about this subject on my blog as well – the whole notion of having it all or lack thereof… Now onto the issue at hand.

I’m glad to know that the job I left (as college professor) wasn’t highpowered or societally influencing. I can lower my guilt scale one notch thanks to Linda.

And, I wonder how allowing our children to be raised by people who get paid minimum wage, many without college degrees is BETTER than us, college-educated, life-experienced mamas, staying home. Seriously, someone has to change the increasing number of fuck-ups people are producing these days. Doesn’t anyone else think that the lack of parenting (and that can be from sahms,wahms, wohms, dahms whatever…)in this country is more pressing?

I’m not a working-mom hater by any means, just to clarify, I just think to say we are some type of anti-feminist and a useless waste of college money is a bunch of hooey.

By: TB

TB — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:27:12 +0000

Hirshman is another in a long line of right wing women who talk just for the sake of hearing their own voice. And what comes out is more often than not conservative platitudes that we have all heard before ad nauseum. She’s just stirring the pot and talking out of turn under the assumption that most women feel the way she does. I almost enjoy reading drivel like this because it makes me even more sure that Hirshman et al are so blinded by their beliefs that they are missing the forest for the trees.
The beauty of feminism today is that we are free to make whatever choice is right for us. Period.

By: Ornery

Ornery — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:31:59 +0000

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the trivial information you so eloquently displayed. My brain has been overloaded with too much anger and controversy inside cyberspace and out, so reading your excellent advice regarding outdoorsy lovin’ was just what the doctor ordered.

As for Hirshman’s article…I have no doubt that Hirshman would take one look at me and call me a major disappoinment to the feminist movement. I am well-educated, have a promising career, yet would choose properly working ovaries over a CEO position at a Fortune 500 company in a heartbeat. Shame on me.

By: roo

roo — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:00:39 +0000

I see now that by getting my MFA in theatre I’ve revealed myself as the kind of stupidly idealistic, over-educated, low-wage-earning liberal-arts type that is a deadweight on the feminist movement.

I feel so empowered.

By: JessR

JessR — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:05:00 +0000

So sorry to hear about your wodka being confiscated. And whenever I read yet another article dissecting how we women are supposed to be managing our lives, I just have to laugh. And cry. And drink a little. When will we be OVER this? Throw her down the well, I say! Excellent rant.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:41:18 +0000

Hey! At the next Confabulous, let’s make Red Eye. That’s like gin, only much more, um, alcohol filled.