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I keep thinking sometime soon we'll all get sick of Mommy Wars, but alas . . . It is amusing to read the anti-feminist thoughts of a woman who lives the feminist dream - husband, kids, interesting job, and enough household help to make it all possible. Just as it is amusing to read Kate O'Beirne rant on the subject of working mothers as she rakes in unfathomable amounts of dough while working her little conservative ass off, presumably with a passel of household help. And I can be amused instead of outraged because I am fortunately past the problem. The kids done growed and gone. I did not work. I had the luxury of staying home, which I chose to do, and though sometimes I envied my friends who worked and had nannies, I only envied them because they seemed to have better haircuts and nails than I did. Our society forces us to be hypocrites, and that is because our society doesn't really like families. It likes wealth, and the gaining of it, over all else. I know it will sound like socialist pap to say it, but say it I will: the country's resources should be concentrated on families not warheads. That's so 60's, sure. Still, feminism is about who takes care of the children, not who gets to be a lawyer.
