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Sara, I agree with your defense—in response to Katie Roiphe's piece about women hiding behind their children on Facebook—of a woman's right to put her kids first. I'm 25 and enjoying my selfish years now, because, as Judith Shulevitz pointed out
in her piece about the seasons of a woman's life, I fully expect them
to end when I have kids. And I think that's natural. Just as natural,
in fact, for fathers as it is for moms.
My mother once relayed to my sister and me a hypothetical question... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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As a woman who has declined to put her picture on Facebook—my profile
photo is a drawing of me by my daughter—I respectfully disagree with Katie Roiphe's assumption
that this somehow represents some reprehensible self-effacement on my
part as a working woman. I'm admittedly a little late to social
networking, and not exactly a devotee. A friend of mine jokes that my
status line should read... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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