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Hanna Rosin
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.
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In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers it is much too intimate and elemental.
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