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[pantryslut]

If you think of Sandra Tsing Loh as primarily a humorist on the light side, you might be surprised by this essay, ostensibly a review of The Bitch in the House. I found it rather meaty, myself.

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[rgay.livejournal.com]

That was one of the best essays I've read in a long time.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

So many things to try to balance in life: making a living, having a love-life, having meaningful work, keeping your household going, taking care of children. Hard to do it all in our society, where as she points out, middle-class people often have less materially comfortable lives than they did growing up.

She did portray the women as very hard-driven, and the men as much more easy-going. The men seemed OK with a dirty house, imperfect children, junk food diets (there I'd definitely have a problem!), etc. Could the hard-driven women lower their standards? I wonder if the women were afraid that if they loosened up with respect to paid work, they would be unable to make a living at all, and end up dependent, whereas the men didn't have as much of that worry.