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Just one small response to Hanna's excellent observations in today’s DoubleX discussion of an alternate universe in which Hillary had become President:
I can't resist disagreeing with her that the Obama marriage is
post-feminist. I don't think any marriage where one spouse is gone out
of the house to the extent that he was, and one spouse is ...
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Speaking of being bummed out, I felt oddly blue after reading Mimi Swartz’s excellent
piece in The Daily Beast about empty-nesters in the Obama administration.
Swartz, who also writes
for Double X about being
an empty nester herself, talks about (and to) White House senior adviser
Valerie Jarrett, and also offers up WH Social Secretary ...
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It would have been so much easier for me to find the time to write
this post if I had voice-recognition software, a sophisticated
self-built database with all my contacts including my Double X blog
posting instructions, which I keep losing, and most of all if I had an
administrative-assistant-type of husband who handled all the ...
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When I was reading Sandra Tsing Loh's article in the Atlantic that we've all been discussing, I found myself getting distracted by a lot of things, among them the ostentatious dishes of the male cook in the household she visits for dinner. I know she emphasized this for bitter effect, but it did ring true in that it sometimes strikes me that when ...
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While it’s true as John says that the 100-day presidential milepost is media-made, it does afford time to ponder swift and striking changes, such as Michelle Obama’s rise in poll ratings. Less than a year ago, in June 2008, as the Washington Post pointed out in its 100-days section yesterday, Michelle Obama’s favorable rating was 48 percent. Now ...
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I was riveted by Dahlia's vivid description of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing of the Savana Redding case, which has been followed with interest in my household. Like Redding when she was summarily hustled into a school nurse's office and ordered to disrobe under the scrutiny of school administrators, my daughter is 13 and in public middle school. ...
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All the posts and photos about the splash Michelle Obama has made overseas, and talk of etiquette issues, and touching the queen versus not touching the queen, and hugs versus handshakes and marital fanny pats, and the general confusingness of cross-cultural protocol, etc., etc., reminded me of a conversation I had with a French journalist around ...
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Last night I went to the pharmacy to see if I could pin down something that would speak to Abby's worry that Plan B might change teenage sexual behavior if/when it becomes available OTC to 17-year-olds. That would be the price. I knew the morning-after pill was expensive, and it's been my assumption that a contraceptive for which teenagers have to ...
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Emily's post about whom we write for when we write about parenting raises always-worth-asking questions. But I'm not convinced that poorer parents and more affluent ones always have different concerns (I know she wasn't implying this) or even different styles of parenting.
Six years ago, when my children were younger and I wrote about them with ...
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Holly's eloquent post is a testament to the difficulties that beset legislators and ordinary people when it comes to thinking through the ethics involved in making policy regarding human embryos, stem cells, IVF treatment, and reproductive freedom. Congrats on your twin boys, Holly, and I sympathize with the difficulty of figuring out what to do ...