tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post7844577905211970387..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Moral LessonsSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-78691066138865233432015-04-03T12:23:34.039-05:002015-04-03T12:23:34.039-05:00Wow.
Wow. <br /><br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-82545318786590528272015-04-03T08:24:56.254-05:002015-04-03T08:24:56.254-05:00"In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, 2..."In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, 26 states had laws prohibiting the employment of married women. The sentiment behind the laws was that a married woman – who presumably had a husband to take care of her – should not "steal" a job from a man. It was acceptable for single women to find jobs, but usually these were lower-paying jobs that were typically considered "women’s work" – thus white women worked as salesgirls, beauticians, schoolteachers, secretaries, and nurses. The job market for African American women was even more restricted, with most black women who worked serving as maids, cooks, or laundresses."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-2962071090908798422015-04-02T15:04:46.413-05:002015-04-02T15:04:46.413-05:00My great-grandmother got a divorce in Washington s...My great-grandmother got a divorce in Washington state around 1905.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-8611202737019350902015-04-02T14:36:45.442-05:002015-04-02T14:36:45.442-05:00Before people divorced, husbands abandoned their f...Before people divorced, husbands abandoned their families. I suspect there was sometimes tacit agreement between spouses before this occurred, but usually the husband couldn't support the family and he left. Old studies of immigrant slums found that something like a quarter or a third of marriages ended this way in the early 20th century. I have at least one great grandfatehr who I suspect abandoned his family to come to the US (the family supposedly died in an epidemic which he, a coal miner of all things, "avoided). Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland, Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04360441752575669061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-8445520929002424772015-04-01T14:56:46.506-05:002015-04-01T14:56:46.506-05:00My mother used a blender to make hollandaise. That...My mother used a blender to make hollandaise. That was *really* easy. But why use something everyone gets as a wedding gift when you can use a counter-top appliance that costs more than all your other appliances put together? The envy of your neighbors is priceless!Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-86950292887449377842015-04-01T14:44:15.843-05:002015-04-01T14:44:15.843-05:00Emily, I agree. It is easy. I make it all the tim...Emily, I agree. It is easy. I make it all the time. But Hollandaise and bechamel are easy too, and she still needs a "just push 'on'" machine to make them.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-17771244099984912952015-04-01T12:17:13.318-05:002015-04-01T12:17:13.318-05:00I hate to defend Megan, but my husband's aunt ...I hate to defend Megan, but my husband's aunt told me how to make ricotta and it's as easy as pie. Really, even Megan could do it. <br /><br />EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-84530677005813574872015-04-01T11:03:44.655-05:002015-04-01T11:03:44.655-05:00Why did poor people stay married? Could it be beca...Why did poor people stay married? Could it be because women found it nearly impossible to find a job to support themselves or themselves and their kids? Could it be because our vaunted patriarchal institutions made it as difficult as possible for a woman to earn a living? What a twit.<br /><br />naryaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-85290016335338762452015-04-01T10:53:51.019-05:002015-04-01T10:53:51.019-05:00I had a friend in college who bought raw cookie do...I had a friend in college who bought raw cookie dough from the deli where I worked, baked it at home, then told people she made them from scratch herself. I'll take it to the bank that's what Megan does with her "homemade" ricotta; empties the grocery tub into her $99 clay Crate and Sonoma and Beyond overpriced bowl and tells her guests she made it on her own. I have a very hard time believing a woman who needs a $1400 blender to mix what most people can do with four ingredients and a saucepan to make simple gravies crafts her own cheese.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-57917246125584603872015-04-01T09:50:12.393-05:002015-04-01T09:50:12.393-05:00Hurray for Captain Spaulding!
It's much easie...Hurray for Captain Spaulding!<br /><br />It's much easier to pin blame on the victim than stop the victimization, especially when you hope to profit from it.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-3101293952311061262015-04-01T08:07:50.380-05:002015-04-01T08:07:50.380-05:00Add in conflict between the parents over money and...<i>Add in conflict between the parents over money and time</i><br /><br />Does she have any idea of what is a cause and what is a symptom?<br /><br />PS Americans really loved their operetta in 1930. I love me some Pre-Code, but I did not know that phase of AllTalking! AllSinging! AllDancing! was still going on then. It would be another three years before 42nd Street pretty much revived the musical after the market got sick of them.KadeKonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-29543077308320441692015-04-01T01:05:55.575-05:002015-04-01T01:05:55.575-05:00For some reason Arglebargle, like her pals Books &...For some reason Arglebargle, like her pals Books & Douchthat, presumes that film/TV entertainment sets the fashion for most Americans' behavior. Its an <i>escape</i> you ninny niwit!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-76516214497504194972015-03-31T16:54:09.989-05:002015-03-31T16:54:09.989-05:00I assume that Animal Crackers is the one you'v...I assume that Animal Crackers is the one you've seen before and you've left out Captain Spaulding's simultaneous seduction of Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead only out of a concern for good taste. Seriously, note that the Hays Code was introduced in 1930 and strictly enforced starting 1934, fulfilling McArdle's wishes. I wonder if it actually got people having more divorces?Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-39879409202492543692015-03-31T16:24:34.529-05:002015-03-31T16:24:34.529-05:00But she's not smugly lecturing her readers, sh...But she's not smugly lecturing her readers, she's just telling them the best way to live. The rest is up to them.<br /><br />" I like the smug satisfaction of knowing there’s something delicious in the Crock-Pot, and I put it there. Maybe I hate myself a little when I bake my own bread and spread it with homemade ricotta and fresh tomatoes from the farmers' market or a friend’s garden. But I also really, really, really love those sandwiches."<br /><br />See? Pearls of wisdom!Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-42426380960702366582015-03-31T16:06:01.437-05:002015-03-31T16:06:01.437-05:00She's like Guy Pearce in Memento. Soon Suderma...She's like Guy Pearce in Memento. Soon Suderman will have to tattoo important facts and figures onto her skin.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-30238081388431938332015-03-31T15:35:10.140-05:002015-03-31T15:35:10.140-05:00"What I'm against is thinking that what y..."What I'm against is thinking that what you eat makes you a better class of person, and smugly lecturing those who don't follow your lead"<br /><br />Thus spake the woman who demands that her readers buy a 1400-dollar-machine so the stuff gets mixed 'just right' and sings the praises of Himalayan Pink salt.<br /><br />Ahh, what joy it must be to live in a universe where each day is completely new and totally disconnected from all the days that came before it!<br /><br />CynicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-79455786094104861022015-03-31T15:09:00.991-05:002015-03-31T15:09:00.991-05:00My guess is that she wants Brooks' job in her ...My guess is that she wants Brooks' job in her old age. Trying to explain economic theory did not work out very well and is too much work anyway. But it's easy to churn out a little moral scolding with a veneer of social science.<br /><br />First however she has to get Ross Douthat out of the way. Perhaps she can invite him over for dinner and suffocate him in Aleppo pepper.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-68756986450877573612015-03-31T15:03:04.400-05:002015-03-31T15:03:04.400-05:00For years, when people have said that Megan is &qu...For years, when people have said that Megan is "stupid" I've disagreed. (I've said, "She's not stupid. She's dishonest.") But--can you ever forgive me?--this "if only Hollywood would promote good values" crap is deeply stupid.<br /><br />Where to start? How about with the stunning observation that there is no such thing as "Hollywood" if, by that, she means an industry with a unified sense of itself and its, uh, mission. <br /><br />Or with the even more stunning insight that the only thing "Hollywood" cares about, to the extent that it does exist, is making money.<br /><br />You'd think a libertarian would not only know this, but defend it, and abjure completely any hint of art-as-social-engineering. This, apart from any observations about how movies have become (since the good old 1930s, when marriage meant something) more realistic. Every genre--action, comedy, romance, etc.--takes pains to show how life IS, not how nice it would be if it were ideal.<br /><br />One expects this sort of Zhdanovite moralizing from silly old David Brooks. Is Megan getting soft in her old age?Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.com