Mommy Wars, Schmommy Wars, I Need a Refill

Shannon Chamberlain, writing in Reason, smartly sums up the foolishness on both sides of the “Stay At Home/Work for the Man” mommy debate.

Caitlin Flanagan, the mom they love to hate, says she’s a liberal and gets pinned by this:

Flanagan displays that regrettable leftist tendency to confuse low-skill labor with slavery, although it’s unlikely that she thinks of herself as exploited by The New Yorker’s editorial board.

And Carrie Lukas, the conservative writer who comes to the same “let’s hang around the house” conclusion that Flanagan did, gets whalloped:

The thought that women might find satisfaction in work that Lukas considers beneath consideration is just as unlikely to occur to her as it is to occur to Caitlin Flanagan.

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