http://broadrecognition.com/sex-health/the-dollhouse-has-nine-rooms/ A Feminist Magazine at Yale Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://broadrecognition.com/sex-health/the-dollhouse-has-nine-rooms/#comment-1540 Ordinary Woman Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:18:47 +0000 http://www.broadrecognition.com/?p=727#comment-1540 I think your assumptions are "suspiciously condescending." Many, many, many ordinary women do in fact wake every morning worried about their home, their family, their job and their bodies. I myself run through lists in my head of how I can best get manage all the tasks I need to accomplish each day. If you think you have somehow managed to be above these concerns please enlighten me. I don't believe the author of this self help book is trying to reinforce some societal role on women that you don't approve of. Nor is she "insidiously dictating" what women should concern themselves with. She is recognizing what we classic, traditional women deal with every day. I think her book is directed at a group of women that you clearly do not share the same values with. And while this book may seem silly, or condescending or trivial to you it could in fact be quite enlightening to other women and useful to women who worry daily about how to balance their successful home and work lives, all the while maintaining their identity as a strong feminine woman. I think your assumptions are “suspiciously condescending.” Many, many, many ordinary women do in fact wake every morning worried about their home, their family, their job and their bodies. I myself run through lists in my head of how I can best get manage all the tasks I need to accomplish each day. If you think you have somehow managed to be above these concerns please enlighten me. I don’t believe the author of this self help book is trying to reinforce some societal role on women that you don’t approve of. Nor is she “insidiously dictating” what women should concern themselves with. She is recognizing what we classic, traditional women deal with every day. I think her book is directed at a group of women that you clearly do not share the same values with. And while this book may seem silly, or condescending or trivial to you it could in fact be quite enlightening to other women and useful to women who worry daily about how to balance their successful home and work lives, all the while maintaining their identity as a strong feminine woman.

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