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Well, she's done the VERY traditional thing of marrying up - a man rich enough to support her and her interests, let her have her little job (hobby?) and someone to help with the house. Very nice. Very third world! And traditional in the sense that she also seems ok with the idea that she can and should hire women of a lower class to do the work she doesn't want to do. I'd take her more seriously if I thought she had any clue at all about the balance most women face when trying to work, raise kids, be there for their family and community, and keep a decent home. Her bout with cancer might be the closest she's come to reality. Not that I would ever have wished that on her of course. I don't think having read her stuff that she particularly understands feminism or the women's movement or where she might fit into that, except that she benefits in every possible way from our collective history on this one. I write this as a military wife who has no choice but to work if we are to raise the kids (the alternative being, I suppose, for them to go without food or clothes or food, but to have me home) and very often to be doing it all by myself while my husband is deployed. I say she needs to quit yakking and get some work done - or at least practise being grateful for the life of ease her husband makes it possible for her to enjoy.
