So do you think Laffer has sent Peter that penny he owes?

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The PC objection to Peter’s observation about two-income households is a hoot.

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5 thoughts on “So do you think Laffer has sent Peter that penny he owes?

  1. pentamom

    ARGH! These brainwashed women with their high-status jobs! As Peter said, I’m sure she loves her job and I don’t begrudge her that. But no woman ought to be allowed to pontificate in public on the question of whether women in general work because they like to until they’ve visited several chicken plants, plastics plants, Walmarts, lower-end restaurants, and the like, and realize what MOST women who work outside the home actually DO.

    BTW, if staying home and raising kids isn’t “productive,” how come they pay babysitters and cleaning ladies and laundry services? To be UNproductive?

    /rant

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  2. mark Post author

    It is a window into academic liberal feminism v. women in the real world isn’t it? It really comes down to another form of class warfare.

    I don’t resent her working. I don’t resent a natural aristocracy. But the imposing of her own preferences on everyone else is horrible.

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  3. pentamom

    And the thing is, I don’t think the interviewer should necessarily get tagged with “academic liberal feminism.” I chose the word brainwashed very particularly — she might or might not have much interest into buying into the ideology of liberal feminism, but she’s just imbibed he perennial cultural drumbeat that working outside the home is all about journalism and creativity and management and self-discovery and contribution to society, and not at all about “Gee, I wish I could be available when my teenage daughter gets home from school so I know what she’s up to, but I have to stay here slapping circuit boards together to pay the mortgage, and I’m not even allowed to take calls during work to keep tabs.” But men and women who work in those environments know full well that most of the women around them would probably much prefer to be available to the needs of their kids, or aging parents, or whatever, to knowing that every hour spent doing something pretty unfulfilling gets them that next, needed, ten bucks (if that.) It’s a lovely world for an educated woman who lands the kind of job that is interesting and at least a bit flexible, but the fatal error is in believing that that is what “working outside the home” means to the vast majority of women.

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  4. pentamom

    And you know, IMO this all goes back to the fact that women who write about “working outside the home” are all, by definition, journalists or others with high-status, creative jobs. The cultural message about working women is not sent by women in chicken plants, because they don’t have constant access to the media.

    I am not saying that the message should unilaterally be that women working outside the home is unmitigated, involuntary drudgery, just that the message is extremely imbalanced as a result of the only people who commonly get to talk about it in public being the ones who have interesting, decent-paying jobs where they’re allowed to communicate with the outside world between scheduled breaks, schedule occasional time off for other concerns, etc.

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