CNN.com has as their main article this morning a charming story entitled "Moms struggling with prices." (Or, when you click on the article, "Moms' new battle: The food price bulge.") It bears this June Cleaver-y photo:
There's not really much that needs to be said about this, because it's pretty obvious...MOMS? To the exclusion of DADS? Because country-wide, fathers are completely absent from all grocery-related decision making? One woman in the story works in cancer research, and her self-employed husband sometimes struggles to find work. So why isn't HE the one pureeing baby food and making his own detergent? More to the point, why does CNN take that as a given?
This is offensive to both men and women--many men are actually involved in their households, and shouldn't be treated as though they have nothing to do with how their children eat. Screw this "women's work" bullshit--aren't we at least supposed to officially be past that?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Because Men Shouldn't Worry Their Pretty Little Heads Over Money
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Perhaps a good corrective, or at least something to wash the nasty out of our (mental) mouths, is this new show over at PS.1:
“WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution”
Here's a description of one the films included, from the blog post linked below:
"A Vietnam-era suburban housewife is standing in front of a kitchen counter. She stares calmly and without expression into the camera, as if she is the star of her own cooking show. “Knife,” she intones, displaying a knife in her right hand. With short, violent strokes she stabs the cutting board in front of her. She puts the knife aside. “Measuring cup,” she intones, and begins to flip an invisible liquid into the face of an invisible person. “Nutcracker,” she says, holding up the new implement and snapping it together sharply three or four times before setting it down."
Review and historical context courtesy of Claire Potter: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/49587.html
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