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June 30th, 2008

15 Years - Suck It Up

I find very few flaws in the logic of Leslie Bennetts in her book FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?
Her logic is such that I find myself saying, She’s right. Why did I make such a self-defeating choice to quit my fulltime professional newspaper job?

Until the chapter where she reminds me why, […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 51 comments

June 17th, 2008

Stress for SAHMs v. Working Moms

Mothers periodically reevaluate whether they should go back to work or quit their jobs - depending on their current situation.
I found these fascinating statistics in FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?.
One Harvard and Cornell study found that
Women who were homemakers at the beginning of their three-year study and and then went to […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 37 comments

May 19th, 2008

Motherhood is a Temp Job : The Feminine Mistake

I’m in the middle of FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?
Leslie Bennetts, the author brings up the idea that, as she puts is, motherhood is a Temp Job.
Being a mom is a temp job, and if you take that temp job and become completely dependent on your spouse, that makes you so […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 4 comments

May 9th, 2008

Hillary’s “Feminine Ideal” Sin

Yesterday we talked about Hillary’s big social crime, which is to play men’s games by men’s rules rather than to attempt to play them with feminine roles.
I was reading Leslie Bennett’s FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH? last night and she made a point applicable to Hillary.
“Conveying their strengths and attainments to […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 2 comments

March 24th, 2008

The Feminine Mistake

I’ve not yet read the new feminist manifesto, The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts, citing the difficult to refute reasons why women shouldn’t commit to a life as a stay-at-home mom (or apparently any variation therein including part-time or work-from-home mom). My Australian Feminist Mommy counter-part Blue Milk did such an in-depth review of this book,  I would […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 62 comments