Friday, November 25, 2005

Birthday Tanka   For my birthday, my 16-year-old son presented me with some amusing Japanese haiku and tanka poems he’d written for the occasion.   I’ll share this tanka with GITLR readers:   Looking for porno He types, “girl in locker room” And finds my mom’s blog. Nope, no naked pictures here… Au contraire: feminism.   9:11:51 PM    comment []

Keeping Track of the Tracks The topic of "elite women" and the stay-at-home Mommy track apparently continues to interest assignment editors at the magazines, though I'd think the readers have had enough and would like to get on with their lives which seldom include the same equation of choice. But I know some readers rely on me to have the debate links. So here's what Linda Hirshman has just written in the American Prospect , arguing that the "glass ceiling" is at home (for "elite" women). eg that a series of decisions along the way that women make, create the marital situation that they're bashing their heads against. She counsels taking capitalism more seriously from the get-go, treating college like job preparation, the way the men do, and making sure to marry someone with an ideological commitment to gender equality -- or someone with less social/monetary power than you who therefore won't think your job is worth trading in for your housework potential. Interesting. Read the whole article. It's quite, um, practical. A riposte just for Girl in the Locker Room readers comes from friend Judith Statdman Tucker, editor of Mothers’ Movement Online, who was quoted in Hirshman's article. Her remarks here. And while we're worrying about the implications of the Mommy track, read Jane Gross' article in the NYTimes on the new track for boomers, the Daughter track...a trend she's spotted of careerist daughters opting out to take care of elderly parents. Not that much of an "opt" here. It has ever been thus. Read King Lear lately? -RH 8:44:18 PM    comment []

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