Posted by Nicholas at September 20, 2006 12:08 AMIf you want to make a feminist sputter with rage, remind her of those dark days in America's past when girls took home ec classes and boys took shop. But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other half to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
Caitlin Flanagan, quoted by Shannon Chamberlain in "The Real Mommy Wars: Both left and right attack mothers for the choices they make", Reason Online, 2006-10
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