http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/12/holy-crap-more-lazy-obama-supporters-sleeping-till-noon Comments On: Holy Crap: More Lazy Obama Supporters "Sleeping Till Noon"! by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by singing cynic]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:58:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rolando74]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:47:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by EmilyTakesTokyo]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:52:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rolando74]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:59:54 -0800 The Stranger
As for the argument, how is being a SAHM doing men's family work for free? My husband's salary is OUR MONEY. He "pays" me for the childrearing, cooking, cleaning, and other family work that I do by providing for my needs and contributing to my Roth IRA every month.

I don't care if my life is problematic to you. It allows me to raise my kid, to have a great family life, and to spend some of my time fighting so that other families will have more and better opportunities. If we had single-payer healthcare and a government-subsidized creche daycare on every corner, I would've gone back to work sooner and stopped providing my husband with the "unfair advantage" having a wife at home provides. But we don't, and it is bullshit to blame full-time parents for doing the calculus that says it's better for everyone, me included, for me to stay home while the kid(s) is in diapers.

Bottom line though: this is not the place to have that argument! Lay off and take your agenda elsewhere. I've got work to do.
Posted by EmilyTakesTokyo]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:12:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by singing cynic]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:59:30 -0800 The Stranger
Choices have consequences. When millions of women do men's family work for free, it perpetuates the idea that household work is women's work and also provides an unfair advantage to those particular men in the workplace. For this reason, it's irresponsible to suggest (as this column does, by including a SAHM in its list of workers) that being a SAHM is unproblematic.

Look, I know we live in the world we live in. I'm actually not saying that anyone should quit being a SAHM right now (although actually you should consider it; you'd be screwed in the event of a divorce), because the combined stress of unrealistic work expectations (for everyone) and unrealistic parenting expectations (for women only, of course) are very hard on families. But I am saying that we should all pull our heads out of the sand about it. IT'S SEXIST (and don't even get started on SAHDs - that's a total red herring, as I mentioned earlier).

Here, an analogy. I'm a woman and a feminist, and so I strongly believe that men and women should be treated absolutely equally. Yet even so, I present as a woman: I have long hair and wear makeup and jewelry and skirts and heels. That's because even though I don't think men and women should have separate expectations for their appearance, I'm not willing to make the sacrifice of presenting androgynously because our current society would judge me in certain ways (they'd assume I'm letting myself go, or that I'm a lesbian, or that I'm trying to make a statement, or who knows what). But if you asked me if my style of dress is sexist, I wouldn't deny it. Because it is. I might not be happy about that, but that doesn't make it less true.
Posted by rolando74]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:09:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by singing cynic]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:49:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by singing cynic]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:42:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jt]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:01:53 -0800 The Stranger
(A corollary to the above, that I think deserves a little thought: yesterday was the actual Veteran's Day, and today was the official holiday. I am a veteran, with service during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. In the twenty years since I completed my service and was honorably discharged, I have had Veteran's Day off exactly once.)

Moocher, I am.
Posted by DonServo]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:48:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rolando74]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:34:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by EmilyTakesTokyo]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:31:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rolando74]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:27:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by EmilyTakesTokyo]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:26:04 -0800 The Stranger
"Because if raising the next generation were really all that mattered, we could basically go live in caves and reproduce for all of eternity and call it a day."

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/20…
Posted by rolando74]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:02:57 -0800 The Stranger
Oh, and a big FUCK YOU to @16.
Posted by laterite]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:45:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by EmilyTakesTokyo]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:12:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by singing cynic]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:05:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by David Thompson]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:49:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Conservative for Obama]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:40:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rolando74]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:30:15 -0800 The Stranger So, who's more white as a group...Romney voters, or people featured by SLOG!?!
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:23:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SRJ]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:35:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Schmapdi]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:56:15 -0800 The Stranger