Comments on: Screw That Economist Horse You Rode In On http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: SJ http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-472 SJ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:17:35 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-472 Wow, why is this the new cause du jour? You're making great points here. And is it wrong that I read the second name as "Ashton Kutcher?" Whoops. Wow, why is this the new cause du jour? You’re making great points here. And is it wrong that I read the second name as “Ashton Kutcher?” Whoops.

]]> By: Roxanne http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-435 Roxanne Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:55:39 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-435 Name a problem in America and it's always a woman's fault. I don't even know why we make note of it anymore. Name a problem in America and it’s always a woman’s fault. I don’t even know why we make note of it anymore.

]]> By: Lauren http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-429 Lauren Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:22:56 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-429 Ha, wolfa. You're right about that last paragraph. Poor reading skills when outrage meter is off the scales. I do, however, believe that our culture is in many wasy focused on (or "centered on") food. Ha, wolfa. You’re right about that last paragraph. Poor reading skills when outrage meter is off the scales.

I do, however, believe that our culture is in many wasy focused on (or “centered on”) food.

]]> By: wolfa http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-427 wolfa Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:25:23 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-427 Our culture isn't centred on food, exactly -- it's not centred on sitting and enjoying food in company. It does approve of 'food as gift' or 'food as comfort', though. And of course 'food as shame'. And Lauren, please. It's not about working Dads because Dads aren't supposed to ever make the food, that's the job for the Mom. But the "even within families" meant: within one particular family (where the mother started or stopped working between kids), not comparing one family to another. It's probably the only non-objectionable part of the article. Our culture isn’t centred on food, exactly — it’s not centred on sitting and enjoying food in company. It does approve of ‘food as gift’ or ‘food as comfort’, though. And of course ‘food as shame’.

And Lauren, please. It’s not about working Dads because Dads aren’t supposed to ever make the food, that’s the job for the Mom.

But the “even within families” meant: within one particular family (where the mother started or stopped working between kids), not comparing one family to another. It’s probably the only non-objectionable part of the article.

]]> By: Linnaeus http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-422 Linnaeus Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:22:30 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-422 Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation. Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation.

]]> By: Anne http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-421 Anne Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:02:19 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2006/09/30/screw-that-economist-horse-you-rode-in-on/#comment-421 I <em>knew</em> it was the mothers! Damn you, Mom, for working! You made me fat! What a stupid article, with, as you pointed out, no real social critique, only social blaming. I knew it was the mothers! Damn you, Mom, for working! You made me fat!

What a stupid article, with, as you pointed out, no real social critique, only social blaming.

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