{"id":1395,"date":"2004-08-20T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2004-08-20T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T21:54:41","slug":"do-nothing-femi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/do-nothing-femi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do-Nothing Feminism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a title=\"Independent Women's Forum: Better Homes and Ladies' Mags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwf.org\/articles\/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=652\">Unlike most media folk, I get a huge kick out of women&#8217;s service magazines: Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, etc. &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;And it&#8217;s remarkable how much entertainment value you get from the Seven Sisters and their cousins for less than three bucks per issue. I usually skip the ubiquitous sex articles, which always strike me as depressing and futile, with that rank odor of failing marriages. But I love the lurid pieces on accident survivors and couples drowning in credit card debt and mothers dealing with leering school bus drivers.<br \/>\nBut these magazines almost never have anything to do any more with what for years was their core purpose &#8212; keeping house &#8212; and that&#8217;s too bad, because God knows the post-&#8220;I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar&#8221; generation could use help in this area. I&#8217;ve had it with what I&#8217;ve come to think of as Do-Nothing feminism,  which is far more pervasive and insidious now than the much ballyhooed Do-Me Feminism.<br \/>\nDo-Nothing feminism makes domestic incompetence a point of pride: &#8220;I just CAN&#8217;T cook\/sew on a button\/clean up my house&#8230;I&#8217;m just..too&#8230;BUSY!&#8221; is its neurasthetic cri du coeur, the modern equivalent of 19th-Century fainting spells.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most media folk, I get a huge kick out of women&#8217;s service magazines: Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, etc. &#8230; &#8230;And it&#8217;s remarkable how much entertainment value you get from the Seven Sisters and their cousins for less than three bucks per issue. I usually skip the ubiquitous sex articles, which always strike&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/do-nothing-femi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Do-Nothing Feminism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homekeeping","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}