Staying with The World At One, someone from that thing Mumsnet was on it as a person of the utmost importance. Even in my maleness, I certainly couldn't blog, tweet or update my Facebook status anything like as often as I do if I had children. So mumsnet strikes me as disproving its own case by its very existence.
Anyway, this lady could not grasp the idea that fiscal recognition of marriage was not to do with having children, but was instead a recognition of marriage as a good in itself, with the good that is children already rightly recognised in other ways.
Women with children think that they (the women, not really the children) always come first, in the way that people who get up early think that they have won some obscure moral battle against the rest of us. Middle-class women make even their husbands sound like models of restraint when it comes to the whining self-pity of the spoilt child. This Mumsnet puts the two together.
If we really are in the midst of The Mumsnet Election, then heaven help us all.
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"Women with children think that they (the women, not really the children) always come first, in the way that people who get up early think that they have won some obscure moral battle against the rest of us"
ReplyDeleteSo true, and very funny as well! I am not too familiar with Mumsnet, but it reminds me of the Soccer Mom phenomenon that some believe helped get Bill Clinton elected, which is quite an accomplishment, considering middle-class suburban women helped elect one of the worst presidents in American history, so I can understand your "heaven help us all" comment.
I do mean "middle-class" in the British, rather than the American, sense, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe Clintons' appeal to women in general and to feminists in particular was and is beyond baffling, although their mask did slip sufficiently during the 2008 campaign for them to lose their equally incomprehensible rapport with blacks.
Purging them from domestic policy has made healthcare possible at last, and the same Bart Stupak and Marcy Kaptur are making the running on the repeal of GATT.
The Yugoslav, Somali and other misadventures are now inconceivable, and the Gulf and Israel Lobbies have not been weaker in decades. So here's to a different Secretary of State in the second term, marking the definitive close of the whole sorry, sordid chapter entitled "Clinton".