Comments on: in which my feminist side rears her unshowered head http://fridayplaydate.com/in-which-my-feminist-side-rears-her-unshowered-head/ entirely true, but exaggerated for comic effect Mon, 21 May 2012 12:31:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Susan http://fridayplaydate.com/in-which-my-feminist-side-rears-her-unshowered-head/#comment-7016 Susan Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:03:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/in-which-my-feminist-side-rears-her-unshowered-head/#comment-7016 Keli, I agree--this isn't about Meredith Viera personally. But it aggravates me that the Today show and the White House and the New York Times and the American public at large still insist on this Mommy Wars rhetoric.<br/><br/>And it gets to me when it is a woman--a wife and a mother, someone who SHOULD know better the power that a word like "babysitter" has--who starts slinging that language around. I agree that Viera was just doing her job, but I wish there were some OTHER way for her to do that job. Keli, I agree–this isn’t about Meredith Viera personally. But it aggravates me that the Today show and the White House and the New York Times and the American public at large still insist on this Mommy Wars rhetoric.

And it gets to me when it is a woman–a wife and a mother, someone who SHOULD know better the power that a word like “babysitter” has–who starts slinging that language around. I agree that Viera was just doing her job, but I wish there were some OTHER way for her to do that job.

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