Math is hard
March 2, 2008
I thought the article about leap day was stupid, but today there’s this by Washington Post contributor Charlotte Allen:
I don’t mind recognizing and accepting that the women in history I admire most — Sappho, Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth I, George Eliot, Margaret Thatcher — were brilliant outliers.
The same goes for female fighter pilots, architects, tax accountants, chemical engineers, Supreme Court justices and brain surgeons. Yes, they can do their jobs and do them well, and I don’t think anyone should put obstacles in their paths. I predict that over the long run, however, even with all the special mentoring and role-modeling the 21st century can provide, the number of women in these fields will always lag behind the number of men, for good reason.
So I don’t understand why more women don’t relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim. [ We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get? ]
I think I just need to stop reading the Washington Post.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Nothing like a little light-hearted Freud.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Eh, my Very Male other half is the homemaker around our place. He’s the primary breadwinner, too, by virtue of my getting paid roughly 3/4 of what he does, but he’s the one who mopped the floors today (whereas I had to be nagged and prompted to go shove snow around, but that’s because I firmly believe it will melt eventually so what’s the trouble?)
I’d love to wallop this chick with the clue bucket and point out that we aren’t all as dumb and flaky as she is. And then she can make me a pie.
It won’t be as good as my guy’s, though. He makes wicked good pie.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Wow. Just…wow.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
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