My parents are progressive folks. They’re feminists, they didn’t bat an eye when I talked about my bisexuality in front of my entire college graduating class, and they didn’t vote for Bush, not once, not even in 2001. But from childhood I always did notice one thing: My mother, besides having a full time job, did the vast majority of the housework. She cooked all the food, did all the cleaning, and did a lot of the logistical work involved in raising us.
Obviously precociously channeling Anne-Marie Slaughter at a tender young age, I always wondered how my mother did it. Could women have it all? Rather than attempting to do so, I resolved to be a sloppy woman, ...
My parents are progressive folks. They’re feminists, they didn’t bat an eye when I talked about my bisexuality in front of my entire college graduating class, and they didn’t vote for Bush, not once, not even in ...
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