Welcome to my life. Yes, I am a housewife. I am worth absolutely nothing – less than nothing, in fact, when you count my student loans. So when some unsuspecting someone asks me, “So what do you do?” I cheerfully answer, “I stay home with my son.” When I made the decision to stay home, it was the result of job hatred and daycare fear, not to fulfill a frilly, feminine destiny.
How is it that Sarah Palin became the voice of feminism in the GOP, with her with her stylish pencil skirts, $11,400 per week make up artist, and mama grizzly attitude? And are today’s feminists anything like Palin and her female cohorts on the right?
Nancy Bauer’s New York Times article “Lady Power” ponders the idea of the Millennial generation and our feminist/anti-feminist tendencies, using Lady GaGa as a main example of the ways of the Millennial woman. I can’t help but feel targeted and defensive – mostly because I know Bauer is probably right.
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. At the age of 22 I still feel a true connection with Becky “The Icebox” O’Shea. The uber-Tomboy of … Continued
Out of the many worn, misused and misinterpreted words in present-day English language, “feminism” is high up on my list. It is not hard to come across bra-burning misandrists, raving and ranting against the opposite sex, screaming for equality – … Continued
