Today's "feminism" talks about choice. As women, we do have choices. What are we choosing? Do we have too many choices?
Ronnie Bennett wrote a good article yesterday on the many media choices we have on a great media blog, morph we live. "Too many choices become no choice at all, and we definitely have too many choices of everything these days," Bennet wrote.
Judith Warner wrote this in "The Parent Trap" in the New York Times on 2/8/06:
We women have, in many very real ways, at long last made good on Ms. Friedan's dream that we would reach ''our full human potential -- by participating in the mainstream of society.'' But, for mothers in particular, at what cost? With what degree of exhaustion? And with what soul-numbing sacrifices made along the way?
The outside world has changed enormously for women in these past 40 years. But home life? Think about it. Who routinely unloads the dishwasher, puts away the laundry and picks up the socks in your house? Who earns the largest share of the money? Who calls the shots?
The answer, for a great many families, is the same as it was 50 years ago.
Have all the choices made us happier? Has technology made it easier or has it just given us more choices?
I remember when my big choice of the day was whether to ride the trolly or walk. But my job at the cemetery was dead fun and kept me alive and connected. Love your writing, Hats.
Posted by: Aunt Helen | February 25, 2006 at 09:19 AM
There are two issues here -- decisions about working, not working and managing life-styles with family choices and the media channel choices out there. For the latter, this is a good read on choices, "The Paradox of Choices," -- http://www.mediacenterblog.org/2006/02/the_paradox_of/
Posted by: PR Junkie | February 28, 2006 at 08:35 AM