[/caption]I don't have kids. I hope to have kids but currently I don't. I do have a full-time, 60-hour a week job. So when I came across this article while looking for recipes on the Tipsy Baker (Love your work. Call me.) Suddenly, I was seeing red and completely appalled for all of the Moms out there and wanted to entirely disown my full-time-job-having-status.
Here's the gist: Jennifer Steinhauer wrote a fantastic, if not a little uppity, article about how baked goods that are purchased at the grocery story shouldn't be Bake Sale items and are, in fact, the ruination of the bake sale tradition. I, of course, completely agree with her. In the time it takes you to drive to the store, pick out cookies/cupcakes from the bakery and repackage them you could have packed cookies from pre-packaged cookie dough. Then at least you've produced them in your own oven. However, some awful with named Ayelet Waldman decides to tear Ms. Steinhauer apart for being "anti-feminist".
Among other gems, the one that really stood out for me (and was also quoted by the Tipsy Baker) is:
"When are these women going to figure out that this fetish for raising chickens and baking the perfect bundt cake is retrograde, oppressive, and nothing more than latter-day Phyllis Schlafley (sic) bullshit? You know what you don't have time for when you're obsessing over the candied lavender on your Christmas Cookies? Outrage over the political and economic crisis, that's what."
You know what I don't have time for, Ms. Waldman, when I'm simmering my own soup stock, making my own bread or embroidering my own pillowcases? Your bullshit.
