Both from Laura Kipnis, via Aspasia:
“[F]or the sake of the children” is rather a selective enterprise, holding sway far more frequently when it comes to guilty matters like divorce than when it comes to pocketbook issues like education spending.
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Sentimentality about children’s welfare comes and goes apparently: highest when there’s the chance to moralize about adult behavior, lowest when it comes to resource allocation.
From Susie Bright:
I know that the TV-crowd is supposed to think that women’s sexuality has been revolutionized by rabbit-vibe-buying characters on Sex in the City, but I find that to be light propaganda, an amusement. If as many women used a vibrator, as the number who’ve only laughed at a vibrator punchline, we’d be living in a very different female world.
Be sure to listen to her podcast interview with Laura Kipnis, author of The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability.
Pseudo-homelessness status: day 10 with no AC. Staying at Grayson’s next door neighbors’ house. They are out of town all week and very graciously have allowed two complete strangers to stay at their house. We will be gifting them with booze.
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