View from the West Wing!
I know Trump has demolished the old East Wing, so there's no taking a view from it right now, but Jill Biden purports to give readers a "View from the East Wing." That's the title. (And that's a commission-earned link.)
I understand the Axios slip, because who would read a book about what went on in the East Wing? I'm sure Jill's view was what Melania articulated so well: "Who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations?"
That's a "commission earned" link for the book, by the way. It comes out tomorrow. It's #1 at Amazon in the category "Sociology of Marriage and Family" and look at the competition:
Crazy stuff, no? Betty Friedan is still hanging on, there's something called "The Ethical Slut," and it's fits in "Marriage and Family," and why is orange the color of marriage? "Fair Play" is up there twice — once as a book and once as a deck of cards — but there's also "It Begins with You" and — clicking around — I'm confronted with....
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Well, I do not like that last title one bit. I get the sentiment, and I'm hoping that the book itself is like the old movie If A Man Answers - the mother tells her newlywed daughter that she has to "train" her husband as if she's training a dog, but it ends up that the mother is getting the daughter to train herself to be a wife with proper, not unreasonable, expectations and attitudes.
You have to learn to become a wife and mother, just as you have to learn to become a husband and father. The balance that it's necessary to strike doesn't always come naturally. My husband and I decided very early that our relationship, his and mine, was the one we had to nurture the most carefully, so that we could be good models for our kids (and make them aware that the relationship between husband and wife is central to the health of the family).
Gee it is almost as if giant corporations and elite men that run them want women to work as wage slaves instead of raising kids and go be HR ho's.
Why would giant corporations want to double the size of the labor pool and have a bunch of "career oriented" women in the office?
And when that causes demographic collapse we can just import more wage slaves from the 3rd world.
Most women opposed the women's suffrage movement. The 40 year old harem girl cat ladies know why but instead of admitting it the make youtube fodder.
It took years of "education" to convince women that being a corporate wage slave is better than raising kids.
But is it?
Once a single mom, always a single mom...
I'd advise you to ditch this genre and read a western, ma'am. You don't earn a nickle plugging crap. You really still need amazon commissions to keep you afloat? How much does heeat? No part time jobs for yer boy?
“ For 20 years The Ethical Slut—widely known as the “Poly Bible”—has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer sex practices. The third edition of this timeless guide to the ethics of relationships, communication, and sex has been revised to include….”
Third edition that is “a must read for everyone.”
Going to go out on a limb and suggest not hating your husband before having kids. Bad enough you hate the guy yet married him, don’t make the situation worse.
Fits in with Marriage and Family, eh? Perhaps the spin is that (fake) Dr. Jill's tome is putting her family's health and well-being above all. Nothing says "I care" like thinking "He's having a stroke" but deciding not to do anything because he still might recover and win the debate. Such loyalty to her family!
But perhaps they are simply slyly imparting the truth that Jill might be the poster child for woke feminism. Go Jill Go!
Following our evolutionary history of tribal conflicts and the dangers of incest, human females have long experienced cross-group takings and trades to other genetic populations. Females have freedom of movement per the mating function and their relatively low levels of violence.
Women specialized in children and caregiving as a functional way to stay in the good graces of men, and to shape the next generation too. This is back door power, but serious power.
Intellectually, young adult women adopt and adapt to the dominant local traditions and viewpoints, be they from a neighboring tribe, invading army, religious cult, or older guiding females in their "new tribe." Feminism comes in here -- if women are not focused on children the "guides" drift in random social directions per "X wave feminism" ideals. This is an artifact of female adaptability rather than fixed beliefs, so feminism drifts with the winds. The only constant is that power comes from association with men and fitting into current and future power structures.
Jill Biden and "Ethical Slut" indeed belong in the same discussion. Hillary's "stand by your man" and rejection of "staying home and baking cookies" fit here too.
has anyone else here actually read Betty's "Feminin Mystique"?
i read it back in the late '80's, when i was a leftie,
and WOW was i impressed! impressed with how shitty it was.
her basic premise was that:
a) housewife is no longer a full time job, because of washing machines
b) because of a, wives are bored, and need something to do
c) so, women (WHITE women) "Need" jobs outside the home
d) so, they should be given jobs
no word about black women Already working
no word about these women taking men's jobs
CERTAINLY no word about the harm of creating HR depts to create jobs
i'd like to know what other people (that read the book) thought?
please;
if your response will be: "i never read it, but.." please keep to yourself
It's the Book of That Time of the Month Club!
The immature slut and mut: fidelity, cooperation, and reconciliation are dated concepts.
I don't know about its literary quality but it sure seems to work as a recruitment and training manual for the Democrats, judging by voting demographics.
"View from the West Wing!"
Given the speculation that Jill Biden was calling the shots since Joe Biden was impaired this is a comical mistake. For what it is worth I doubt Jill was calling the shots simply because she doesn't seem sharp enough to do so. I could see a Cyrano de Bergerac situation though were some other person who is sharp feeding her ideas though.
Marcus Bressler @7:00am, I just snorted in amusement, thankfully not after a sip of coffee.
She just held the eye (the scottish play)
Most likely 2028 is going to be a repeat of 2008 where a charismatic new voice will ride a powerful wave of desire for change to a new sweeping majority victory. In this sense, Biden is irrelevant to the 2028 contest just as Al Gore and John Kerry were to 2008. Democrats don't do yesterday when tomorrow's win is in the air.
Much of Bidenism will simply be left behind.
Jill Biden was one of the most effective political spouses of her era; Joe would not have risen as far without her. Yet a profound generational shift is underway, and the Bidens found themselves one generation too late—just as Republicans are now discovering with their own retread incumbent.
Doctor Jill was supposed to stay in the ditch next to Cindy Sheehan.
“How not to hate your husband after kids”
Hee…I assume that one gives advice on the proper way to hate your husband.
Sometimes an infinitive should be split.
Axios sad that their political party was damaged. Never forget.
I’m curious how a lesbian can really relate to a heterosexual relationship. It seems that one side of the dynamics of cuckoldism is missing.
Maybe Axios was just speaking truth to power, observing how often Jill was seated at Joe's desk.
"How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids..."
Does the book evaluate the various ways to hate your husband, find their flaws, and then recommend the proper way to hate him? Does the book recommend hating your husband as a priority, before the kids get their turn? So many ways to interpret this.....
I'm trying to read the classics that I failed to get to during my life, but I'm thinking all that's going to have to wait until I get to "The Ethical Slut".
I was always envious of women, to some extent, because, at least where I was in society, they had the choice of whether to work or stay at home, raising kids. I think that if I were I woman, I would have tried to juggle both.
My mother somewhat resented her lot in life. She had ancestresses who were active in the fight for suffrage, even back in the 1850s (along with Temperance and Abolition of Slavery). Aunt got her MS in Mathematics from Columbia in 1927. She was first in her class (1945) at the University of Illinois. Then was pressured by society to give up a career for a family, raising 5 boys, and helping my father finish law school. I think, deep down, that she believed that she would have done better in that field than my father did (he did just fine).
I think by college, I was looking for a woman who was more interested in a career, than a family. There were both in college (I was a year ahead of Ann). Half the pre-meds (most of whom succeeded in becoming MDs). Two of Biden’s National Science Advisors (both PhDs), etc. And plenty still looking for Mrs. Degrees. My GF, an extremely talented musician, and I argued about this, more than anything else, but from the opposite sides we were really on. She wanted me to support her in a career, while I wanted her to be willing to support my career. So, after being admitted to Juilliard for grad school, she married a guy who was not nearly as talented as she, and put him through a PhD at a lesser school.
Eventually, I married a career oriented woman, and we have a daughter, who is following her footsteps (PhD in Mechanical Engineering, now a senior test engineer for optics in space). Now a mother in her own rights, and seemingly flourishing in both roles.
Now, my partner for over a quarter century swings the other way. She had the moon within reach. She had serious opportunities from Hollywood insiders. A nationwide modeling agency seriously trying to move her to NYC. The top litigation atty in the state offering to put her through law school, etc. And her response to each and every of these offers is that she just wanted to raise a family. Which she did, successfully for the boys, maybe less so for the girls. Younger one, 45, is living with us. She’s taken over her mother’s bedroom, and my project today is to put locks on it to keep her out. At 45. We also have that daughter’s oldest son living here, but we like that.
If I had had the choice, I probably would have tried to do both, like my daughter has done successfully, at least so far. But I don’t think that my college GF ever had kids (likely female plumbing issues), and my partner was widowed with two infants to raise. Still, women had the choice, and we didn’t. Our big choice was, if we got an induction notices, whether to go fight, and maybe die, in a rice paddy in Vietnam, or move to Canada.
So they're upset that Dr. Jill is telling the truth because its "unhelpful" to the Party. Man, that's the Liberal/left in a nutshell. Oh sure, we believe in the truth, but y'know if its "unhelpful" to our gaining and keeping power, well, maybe its better to lie.
As a husband i have to listen to my wife complain. I don't have to listen to other women do it. Oh, we cant have our cake and eat it too. wah wah.
Good company. Brilliant, I'd say.
I LOL at the (D) party with their panties in a bunch that (Not that kind of) Doctor Jill is garnering all the oxygen from the room. Tit for Tat.
They platformed the sock puppet when he served them well. They tossed him aside like a used rag (doll) when he served them poorly.
But did they imagine a climber, do-nothing family like the Biden's would go gently into that good night?
Youse guys are killin' me.
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