Forget just attitudes about social contracts — this is about a *literal* contract. Murphy, as part of his contract to play baseball for the Mets, gets paid paternity leave as part of his compensation package. Whether this was something his agent negotiated individually, or was the result of collective bargaining,…
I disagree completely. There is nothing identifiable about the child in this picture and I wouldn't put it here if there was, trust me. But showing this photo adds a very powerful visual element to this story that hammers home the severity of the situation that words just would not be able to do. I say that as someone…
Eh... maybe? I think she's vastly underestimating the kinds of subtle cues we give off to children though, both personally and then external things like exposure to gender-segregated marketing they see on TV or elsewhere.
they store company secrets in the lactation/storage room I use to pump. but I'm too busy reading jezebel to go through the boxes.
I was pumping in the ladies room at Midway a few months ago, hands free bra and everything, really feeling like I was nailing it, being a traveling mother and all...and then as I was finishing up and very carefully putting a lid on the fruits of my labor I dropped the bra into the toilet. No longer nailing it.
It's largely the issue of germs on your pumping equipment which could get into the milk. With my machine, I needed to fit bottles to the little hose things attached to the machine, then attach the bottles to my nipples. All this is pretty gross to imagine doing in a stall, where you would need to set things on the…
I'm actually in neither camp. The thing is, lots of military spouses are what we could call "old school" marriages: the women stay home and the men bring home the bacon. Punishing the sex offender by taking away benefits also comes down on the spouse then, who hasn't done anything wrong and in many cases is a victim…
I agree. What I find troubling about cultural relativism is that it doesn't draw lines. So we can't condemn slavery in other cultures? Or the Afghani practice of bacha bazi, in which young boys are commonly prostituted and raped because women are inaccessible for sex? Or, as you point out, sati? What about female…
Holy shit, the comments on this article.
"Widows used to burn themselves in a great fire with their husbands' dead bodies; but the English government has forbidden them to do so any more; but their hard—hearted relations make them as miserable as possible."
No, my dear. They did not 'burn themselves' they were thrown bodily into the funereal pyre of their…
You are the problem I'm identifying. Yes, "misogyny" can be found everywhere. That doesn't mean it takes the same form or degree everywhere. You are not acting as a feminist when you announce that no one is allowed to criticize the deep flaws in South Asian culture until the U.S. is perfect, you are acting as an…
Re: "whiteness" - I think the media (ESPECIALLY women-focused publications like Jezebel) need to stop saying "white" in many of these cases. It's ignorant and even a bit racist to say that it's a "white" mentality to go in to change these cultures' perspectives. Sure, they're dated and sexist, but how would you…
You have basically described what I wear on rotation. My wardrobe has plenty more items in it but every morning I put on the cleanest of my two favourite pairs of jeans and pick whichever t shirt I feel is the most neglected.
ok GMO fear bugs me a lot because the history and the science are pretttty complicated. without genetic engineering, there would be an even larger global food shortage. however, monsanto and other corporations fucked everyone by taking the good GM properties and then adding the non-germinating seed producing bit.…
You can pry my nursing tanks from my cold dead hands.
As a currently breastfeeding mama (pumping in my office as we speak) I think this campaign would be awesome if it showed a dad bringing his lady a giant bottle of water and a sandwich while she's nursing. Or getting up in the middle of the night to change a baby and bring him/her into mama. Or keeping the toddler…
No, they don't. Not in the same way. Actually one of the docs here is on paternity leave right now and got a bit of flack for taking time off to be with his new wife and baby.
So this is only tangentially related, but I work at a hospital. Yesterday I was on the elevator in business attire (I am not clincal staff) and with a 30-something male visitor, a male surgeon in OR scrubs and a lab coat, and an older female doctor in OR scrubs in a lab coat. The 30 something guy says "hey if this…
A lot of this is highly dependent on the hospital you go to. I gave birth at a nationally-recognized women's specialty hospital and while I did have complications (like, they happened before anyone even did anything to me there, it wasn't anyone's fault, they had already begun before I even walked in the door), what…