Numeracy, Hedonism and Journalism: A Place-Holder
For those of you playing along at home, there will be some required reading for this upcoming post. In chronological order:
At The Atlantic:
Hard Core, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Is That a Boiled Frog in Your Pocket? Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?, by Tony Comstock (that’s me)
All The Single Ladies, by Kate Bolick
My two responses to Ms. Bolick’s piece, as comments on TheAtlantic.com
It’s Not Too Early to Talk About Freezing Your Eggs, by Lindsay Abrams
At The Daily Caller:
What Are Women For?, by James Poulos
At The American Conservative:
The Economics of GOP Change, by Rod Dreher, with the now excised portion quoted by me in my last post On the Perils of Being Willfully Misinformed
Hedonist, Disciple or Bourgeois?, by Eve Tushnet
So go on now, read up. There will be a test.
Meanwhile I need to get my younger daughter into her Brownie Scout uniform and head over to the volunteer firehouse where she’s participating in a Veteran’s Day ceremony. Thank goodness for the mothers who organize the troop. Elsewise this day would have gone unmarked here at Rancho Ryan.
Good lord, not that Poulos piece again. And I thought I demanded a lot of my audience.Report
I hadn’t read it before, but now I have and this…this.
millions of women had altered what it meant to be a woman … by having or supporting abortions.
Holy shit!Report
innumeracy in the pursuit of running cover for conservatives is no vice. ask mcmegan and her calculator.Report
My biggest problem with Kate Bolick’s piece was not that she has no intention of getting married. It was largely being very dense around the issue of her class privilege. There was one section where she talked about borrowing a house in the Hamptons. I think the friend was another single lady who spent most of her time in London. My immediate thought upon reading this sentence or hearing about it was:
“Really? How many people have the time for all that?”
My inner socialist kicks a lot at trend pieces about the 1 percent or close to 1 percent. There is a big difference between being a single woman who can borrow a house in the Hamptons and a single woman struggling via low-wage jobs!Report
I have to assume that Mr. Ryan is not endorsing the sentiments expressed is all the linked pieces. After all, the second piece on the list is something he himself wrote to criticize the first piece.Report
Forgive me, but I’m struggling with a question on works left off this list; particularly a href=”http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/boys-on-the-side/309062/”>this, and most particularly, the commentary.
Slut shaming galore.
If that’s where we’re headed, no thanks.Report